New government spy unit triples in size
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New Zealand has a new super intelligence spy unit - MI.
It stands for Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment Intelligence RNZ can reveal the government's super-ministry has quietly embedded itself in the country's spy agency network, tripling the size and spending of its own dedicated intelligence-gathering arm.
It amounts to secret empire building an alarmed Muslim community says.
Phil Pennington has more.