What if the GCSB bill doesn’t pass?

Tracy Watkins at Stuff reports:

The capabilities of , the Security Intelligence Service and Defence Force will be beefed up if controversial spy legislation falls over, John Key says.

is what some people overlook. Those agencies all have legal authority to intercept communications if they get (for Police and anyway) a warrant for it.

What is being proposed is that the GCSB can continue to do the actual interception on their behalf as they have the expertise. If the bill fails, it won't mean a single less domestic interception. It will just mean interception will be duplicated and exist in multiple agencies, rather than one.

That's not to say there are not some changes that can be made to the bill.

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