New Zealand’s elections are coming up this weekend, and reporter Glenn Greenwald promises to through a spanner into contest.  Greenwald says he can prove that Prime Minister John Key has been “deceiving the public” over assurances on spying.

Greenwald is promising to reveal documents proving his assertion at an event in Auckland called the “Moment of Truth” sponsored by controversial Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom.  The documents came from the trove of goodies given to Greenwald by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.  The papers, he says, will show that the New Zealand government approved mass surveillance of its residents by the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB), New Zealand's equivalent of America’s National Security Agency (NSA), something that Key has been denying.

Key has no patience with that.  Dismissing Greenwald as “Dotcom’s little henchman”, Key insists that the program Greenwald claims was surveillance was actually “a Norton antivirus at a very high level” – and he rejected it, anyway.

“There is no ambiguity here.  There is no and there never has been any mass surveillance,” Key said.

Greenwald won a Pulitzer Prize in April for his vast reporting on mass surveillance conducted on civilians and world leaders by the NSA and its partners in the “Five Eyes Alliance” – the intelligence communities of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.