> The push to change the law came after it emerged last year that the GCSB illegally spied on Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom before armed police raided his Aucklan

> The push to change the law came after it emerged last year that the GCSB illegally spied on Internet tycoon Kim Dotcom before armed police raided his Auckland mansion as part of a US-led probe into online piracy. > At the time Key publicly apologized to Dotcom, who is a New Zealand resident and should have been off-limits to the GCSB under legislation preventing it from snooping on locals. > However, an official report found that Dotcom's case was only one of dozens in which the GCSB had overstepped its bounds. So, the New Zealand government has responded to the abuses of its spy agency by ... giving the agency more spying powers. The mind utterly boggles.