In the smoke and mirrors of the intelligence world, amid secrecy and denial, crucial figures can become forgotten footnotes in a dust-gathering classified file.

Those of us who had visions of a bristling, moody collision, something like that De Niro-Pacino scene in Heat, were always going to be disappointed, writes Toby Manhire.

Over the next 18 months, expect to see Key, and David Shearer, too, hovering outside Peters' office, bottle of Scotch in hand, writes Toby Manhire.

A bill giving the GCSB spy agency and the Prime Minister sweeping powers over telecommunications providers has been introduced in Parliament to an outcry from Opposition parties who say there has been little explanation as to why it is needed.

It takes a special class of sleep-deprived conspiracist to imagine John Key would have welcomed, let alone engineered, the Aaron Gilmore brouhaha, writes Toby Manhire.

The GCSB never reported their inability to read and they didn't ask politicians to change or "clarify" the legislation, writes John Minto. For 10 years they simply ignored it and only came unstuck

The Kim Dotcom case threatens to pull New Zealand's most secretive spy agency into court in a bid which could probe intelligence links with the United States.

Christchurch mayor Bob Parker doesn't pull any punches in a personal account of the earthquakes that rocked his city.

Senior lawyer Stuart Grieve QC has been given security clearance and appointed to the Kim Dotcom case.

John Key has corrected statements he made in Parliament about when he was first told about the Dotcom case by the Government Communications Security Bureau.

Prime Minister John Key will this afternoon correct the answers he gave two weeks ago to questions about what he was told about Kim Dotcom by the GCSB.

Labour leader David Shearer must be wishing he had never mentioned a recording of a remark the PM is said to have made to staff at the GCSB.

John Key has challenged Labour leader David Shearer to "put up or shut up" over claims he made a quip about Kim Dotcom.

The guerrilla performance artist Kim Dotcom pulled off the greatest dotcomedy of his career last week - making NZ PM John Key a laughing stock, writes Chris Barton.

Prime Minister John Key has defended a planned trip to Hollywood, saying he isn't getting too cosy with the US film industry in the wake of the Dotcom case.

The implications of any illegal spying for the extradition proceeding against Mr Dotcom will depend on what information the GCSB actually obtained, writes Mai Chen

The internet is the new combat zone, where nation strikes against nation, spy against spy and corporation raids corporation.