While discussing the good news about Local Loop Unbundling and other goodies last week, I never got around to talking about the major leak to Telecom of a highly sensitive document. As many commentators have pointed out, there is no precedent of this scale in New Zealand previously. There was a leak in one budget when Roger Douglas was the Minister, but it was nothing like this, and he offered his resignation to the Prime Minister anyway (it was not accepted).
Here we have a confidential cabinet committee paper, with a covering letter from the Minister (David Cunliffe) to the Prime Minister, which was mailed to Telecom - a hard copy was sent, and either an unnumbered copy was sent to them, or the paper number was hidden when it was copied.
However, it seems fairly likely that the leaker will be identified.
I seriously doubt that it was a Cabinet Minister or one of their offices. The simple reason for it is: for what gain?
Cabinet all agreed to the policy.
It would have a coup if kept secret until budget day, and announced properly (rather than the focus being on who leaked it).
An official briefing of the likely contents of the paper with Telecom could have been held with the Minister if they wanted to let them know.
I simply cannot see the benefit of a Minister leaking this - not that Ministers don't leak, but in this case, it just seems to be directly contrary to their interests to do so.
My suspicion is that it is an official in one of the relevant departments, most likely the Ministry of Economic Development. At this stage it seems that the Prime Minister is determined to find out who it was and fire them, and has stated that the results of the investigation will definitely be made public.
We shall have to wait and see.symbian mp3 player 3.0
Here we have a confidential cabinet committee paper, with a covering letter from the Minister (David Cunliffe) to the Prime Minister, which was mailed to Telecom - a hard copy was sent, and either an unnumbered copy was sent to them, or the paper number was hidden when it was copied.
However, it seems fairly likely that the leaker will be identified.
I seriously doubt that it was a Cabinet Minister or one of their offices. The simple reason for it is: for what gain?
Cabinet all agreed to the policy.
It would have a coup if kept secret until budget day, and announced properly (rather than the focus being on who leaked it).
An official briefing of the likely contents of the paper with Telecom could have been held with the Minister if they wanted to let them know.
I simply cannot see the benefit of a Minister leaking this - not that Ministers don't leak, but in this case, it just seems to be directly contrary to their interests to do so.
My suspicion is that it is an official in one of the relevant departments, most likely the Ministry of Economic Development. At this stage it seems that the Prime Minister is determined to find out who it was and fire them, and has stated that the results of the investigation will definitely be made public.
We shall have to wait and see.symbian mp3 player 3.0
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