Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web Page #8

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that the New Zealand

Prime Minister John Key

was meeting with

Hollywood officials.

[interviewer] Can I go through

the list of people we believe

- knew about Kim Dotcom?

- Yeah, sure.

- Simon Power and some officials.

- Yep.

Jonathan Coleman

and some officials,

the Solicitor General's office,

Crown Law, New Zealand Police,

the Attorney General,

the Organized and Financial

Crime Agency of New Zealand,

Nigel Bickle and an unknown

number of people under him

at Immigration New Zealand,

your electorate office,

Hillary Clinton,

the U.S. Department of Justice,

the FBI, the U.S. Attorney

General's office,

senior members of the U.S.

police force, but not you.

Correct. I mean, look, I hate

to tell you the bad news.

There's no great conspiracy.

The facts of life

are that Dotcom

is someone the United States

thinks had broken the law.

He's somebody that

they're trying

to extradite to

the United States.

That's where

it starts and finishes.

[man] Kim Dotcom has failed

in a last ditch attempt

to have the 2012 raid

on his Coatesville mansion

ruled invalid.

The Supreme Court's found the

search warrants were legal.

[man] The police

won't be charging anyone

at the GCSB

in relation to a complaint

about spying on Kim Dotcom.

[Dotcom] Every time

we win, they appeal.

It's a default.

We win. They appeal.

And, you know, every time

they appeal, they win.

It's all very political.

[birds chirping]

[indistinct murmuring]

Hello, good morning.

Thank you all for coming.

Today is a big day.

We're launching

the Internet Party.

[camera shutters clicking]

[Fisher] I couldn't believe it.

"I said to Dotcom," Are you

really gonna do it, then?

Are you gonna go into politics?"

And he said, "Yeah."

And I thought,

"God, you've lost it.

That's completely mad."

[Dotcom] I couldn't care less about

politics. Are you kidding me?

Why would I get involved,

you know?

And then I found out

all these things.

Firsthand, being abused,

being subject

to the abuse of power.

Yeah, of course. I wanted

to replace the government.

Why else would

I do it, you know?

[Fisher] For Mathias Ortmann,

Bram van der Kolk,

Finn Batato, I think

that Dotcom's involvement

in politics was a sideshow

and a distraction.

They struggled to see

how it was going to stop

an extradition process

that was under way,

how it was going

to change the charges

that they might face

in the United States.

[indistinct chatter]

We are a part of this Five

Eyes global spy network.

Thank you, guys.

[Mona] Kim is always

the super confident,

and I'm always the one worrying.

But still, I'm a woman.

I would worry, of course.

That's my thing.

I'm a worry wart.

[indistinct chatter]

[Mona] You're still

kinda, like, left hanging.

Like, I don't even know what's

gonna happen six months from now.

Like, Kim's hearing

is still going on.

I just don't know.

I think the whole stress

really got to me,

and, you know, the raid,

of course, was part of it.

We were really happy

before, you know. Yeah.

[Dotcom] Mona had great

difficulty dealing with the raid.

She struggled with it,

and it affected

our relationship.

That's probably

the most regrettable outcome

of this whole case against me,

that our relationship

fell apart.

She was the love of my life.

[Bryce] It became apparent

as the election year of 2014

was rolling on that the Internet

party was not going to succeed,

so Dotcom started

to look around for alliances.

The party that was willing

to work with him

was the Mana party,

which had a more

left wing and activist base.

[woman] Kim Dotcom

has told One News

he's now forked out

a whopping $4 million

for the deal

with the Mana party.

Kim Dotcom has

a particular legal interest

in not being sent back

to justice elsewhere.

[Prime Minister Key] Everybody

knows that Kim Dotcom

is putting money behind

the political party

to try and stop himself

from being extradited.

[child] Is Kim Dotcom

that big fellow?

[Fisher] It was important

for the Mana party

to be able to introduce

its new political partner

to its constituency.

[speaking in foreign language]

[Fisher] Town by town...

[yelling]

Marae by marae,

they would go down the country.

[crowd cheering]

[Bryce] Everyone was quite surprised

at how successful they were.

People took them seriously and

wondered whether they would play

an important part

in a new government.

And the media reported

everything they did.

I'm not sure that Internet Mana

handled that scrutiny very well.

You work in news.

You puffed-up little [bleep]

You're a thief!

You're a thief, John Key.

[yelling]

[Fisher] The Internet Mana

road show had aspects

that appeared to be targeting

John Key personally.

Are you ready for a revolution?

[crowd cheering]

Are you ready

to extradite John Key?

[crowd cheering]

[all chanting] F*** John Key.

F*** John Key.

F*** John Key.

[man] Attacks on John Key have

hit new heights this campaign...

[crowd cheering]

This effigy burning

the latest online outrage.

[man] F*** John Key.

[Fisher] It was probably

the nastiest election

that New Zealand has seen if not for

many, many decades, then forever.

[man] F*** John Key!

[man] Kim Dotcom has promised

to drop a number of bombshells

that could topple

the Prime Minister John Key

at an upcoming event

billed "The Moment of Truth."

[Fisher] The day that the

Moment of Truth was to be held,

I'd received an email

which purported to show

that everything Dotcom had said

about the conspiracy was true,

that New Zealand

served him up on a plate.

So I rang Dotcom, and I said,

"Is this what you're gonna be pulling

out at the Moment of Truth tonight?"

And he said, "Yes, it is."

[man] So what kind of impact could

there be from all this tonight?

[man 2] Well, it is... these

are extraordinary revelations

to be laid out

five days before a campaign.

John Key is fighting really

for his political life.

Remember, he has said

he would resign

if there was any evidence

to show mass surveillance,

and of course we also have this

email on the Hollywood links.

[indistinct] Come on,

give him a kiss, ladies.

[Fisher] The Moment

of Truth for John Key

would've been

a high risk scenario

because the two things that

Dotcom had promised to produce

were things that

he said he was gonna resign

if they turned out

to be the case.

[Dotcom laughing]

[woman] Tonight,

we welcome the world

and to extend

the welcome of Aotearoa

to Glenn Greenwald...

[crowd cheering]

Julian Assange.

[crowd cheering]

Welcome, Edward Snowden.

[crowd cheering]

[Snowden] Hello, New Zealand.

[Fisher] The U.S. has this war

for control of the Internet,

and it is a war.

They don't feel that there should

be an organization like Wikileaks.

They believe that the spying that

they do should be kept secret.

They believe that

when it comes to copyright,

the approach that they have

should radiate out

across the world.

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