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spread across various offices to produce strategic direction for the intelligence agencies, Little said.
Little ran into trouble yesterday for speaking publicly about his contribution to the royal commission, which imposed a 30-year suppression on the evidence of chief executives and current and former Cabinet ministers.
Asked why he hadn’t recognised a lack of leadership in the national security apparatus, Little said it ‘‘wasn’t correct’’ that he had failed to identify a problem. ‘‘But I’m very conscious that I’m under obligations under Section 15 of the Inquiries Act, and I’ve already been ticked off once today for breaching it or allegedly breaching it.’’
Crown Law had notified him of the possible breach after he was interviewed on RNZ, he said.
Green Party spokeswoman on human rights Golriz Ghahraman said that if Kitteridge continued to maintain that the Muslim community should be targeted, then ‘‘she’s absolutely unfit to lead the agency’’.
‘‘The finding was that the agency was disproportionately ascribing resource ... monitoring the Muslim community, and that that wasn’t based on evidence.’’
Kitteridge on Tuesday said the Muslim community as a whole was not being monitored by the SIS, but individuals of security concern were.
Ghahraman said the report ‘‘found that prejudice existed in her agency, and that she continues to deny that evidence does give me huge concern about her leadership’’.