The Speargun beatup

The TLDR version of the David Fisher story on the GCSB’s Project Speargun is that the PM said he canned it in March 2013 but it wasn’t formally discontinued until September 2013.

This is being hyped up as something significant, when it is not.

A senior staff member in the PMs Office told GCSB the PM didn’t want the project to be put up to Cabinet for funding as it was too broad. It took a while for the project to be officially terminated and the funding formally discontinued. Anyone who knows Government knows this is pretty common.

It was stopped in March 2013 and formally terminated in September 2013, both long before the farcical “Moment of Truth” from Kim Dotcom.