{"id":399672,"date":"2019-03-16T00:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/misguided-spying-and-the-new-zealand-massacre-consortiumnews\/"},"modified":"2019-03-16T00:58:37","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T23:58:37","slug":"misguided-spying-and-the-new-zealand-massacre-consortiumnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/misguided-spying-and-the-new-zealand-massacre-consortiumnews\/","title":{"rendered":"Misguided Spying and the New Zealand Massacre \u2013 Consortiumnews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While intelligence agencies were looking in all the wrong places, a conspicuous target slipped through the cracks, writes Suzie Dawson.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>By <\/strong>Suzie Dawson<\/a><\/span>
<\/strong>Special to Consortium News<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u201cQuestions are being asked of the nation\u2019s security services in the wake of a mass shooting described as \u2018one of New Zealand\u2019s darkest days,\u201d Stuff.co.nz<\/em> reports<\/span> <\/a>and quotes a University of Waikato professor of international law, Alexander Gillespie, as saying: \u2018If it\u2019s a cell we need to ask why weren\u2019t they detected, because that\u2019s why we have security services and it may be that those services have been looking under the wrong rocks.\u2019 \u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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