US DoD, NSA & New Zealand military team up to screw over Kiwi journalist Jon Stephenson over his human rights violations investigation

Surveillance state security apparatus used to target political opposition. Let this one sink in. The NSA, DoD and the New Zealand military ganged up on one guy.

Politically sensitive information, such as the kind of stories that Stephenson was writing, is however about politics and political accountability, not security. Metro magazine editor Simon Wilson, who has published a number of Jon Stephenson's prisoner stories, said the Defence Force seemed to see Stephenson as the "enemy", as a threat to the Defence Force. "But that's not how Jon works and how journalism works," he said. "Jon is just going about his business as a journalist." The New Zealand Defence Force "seems to be confusing national security with its own desire not to be embarrassed by disclosures that reveal it has broken the rules", he said.