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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-779/
- Published: 2023-07-11T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2023-07-11T03:54:05.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:22

Spare a thought for poor Nicky Hager, his apology from the SIS has been expunged from the SIS website and his lefty pals have their knickers in a bunch over it.

> The New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS) scrubbed its apology to [investigative journalist Nicky Hager](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130627453/nicky-hager-receives-66000-settlement-from-security-intelligence-service-over-phone-record-spying?ref=goodoil.news) 15 days after posting it to their website.  
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> But that 2022 apology, which also came with $66,000 compensation for [unlawfully spying on Hager’s phone](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130627453/nicky-hager-receives-66000-settlement-from-security-intelligence-service-over-phone-record-spying?ref=goodoil.news) records, [has now been reinstated to the SIS website](https://www.nzsis.govt.nz/news/nzsis-media-statement-settlement-with-mr-hager-regarding-2012-activity/?ref=goodoil.news) – after *Stuff* asked why the mea culpa had vanished.  
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> In emails released under the [Official Information Act](https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/131976348/the-top-five-most-complained-about-ministries-when-it-comes-to-official-information-requests?ref=goodoil.news) (OIA), staff at the SIS discussed removing the official apology days after it was posted.  
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> That includes the SIS’ general counsel – the secret intelligence agency’s top lawyer – sending an email classified as “SENSITIVE”. That email requested the apology be pulled down after two weeks, because in their view “that story had passed”.  
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> Stuff

[Read more here](https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/132519285/sis-website-scrubbed-unlawful-spying-apology-to-nicky-hager-after-15-days-because-that-story-has-passed?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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