ACT Leader Richard Prebble today said he personally feels vindicated by the findings of the Incis report.

“The report findings are a classic; any competent Minister should have been able to see Incis was doomed to failure. As the previous Minister of Police, I rejected the Incis proposal. I turned it down with no hesitation, because I could see the project could in no way achieve its objectives and it wasn’t difficult to make that prediction.

“The Incis report findings also shows the failure of treasury, they too should have had the foresight to see the project would have failed.

“This type of Government waste and mismanagement of taxpayers hard earned money is disgraceful. If company directors spent shareholders money with such lack of accountability they would probably be sued.

“It’s no wonder morale in Police is low. They are battling with limited resources while Government and Police hierarchy have blown $100 million dollars on a computer that doesn’t work,” said Hon Richard Prebble.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>