RE: Exclusion of emails from document search/DIA deletion of damning emails
Peter Brown made this Official Information request to Department of Internal Affairs
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From: Peter Brown
Dear Department of Internal Affairs,
I was reviewing your response to request OIA2425 0299, and was rather surprised. The response provides a list of emails regarding an OIA request by a NZ Member of Parliament, most of which were entirely redacted. I already have all those emails as they were received by [email address] and [email address]. What does surprise me, is that a critical email- one sent to the zionists which provides personally identifying information of a requester, phrased in a way that suggests there has been no consultation with the requestor to confirm that their personal details may be disclosed, was not even mentioned in the table of emails considered in responding to my request. That email is below, though I have redacted information that was sent to the zionists by Miss Bradfield:
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From: Gaynor Bradfield [REDACTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:33 AM
To: ג'סי (ישי) רוזנבליט <[email address]>; Leonie Parminter [REDACTED]
Cc: אושרת מור ברק <[email address]>; [REDACTED]
Subject: RE: Happy New Year and Freedom of information act request
Good afternoon Jesse
Thank for your email. I can advise that the request for information has been made by a Member of Parliament [REDACTED]. These sorts of requests are regularly directed to [REDACTED] under our Official Information Act. This particular request has been made by [REDACTED] MP. She is her party’s [REDACTED].
The Act does not require a requestor to advise why they want the information, so I cannot give you any information about that.
We appreciate that you may not wish the parts of the document related to Israel to be released. If that is the case, there is provision in the Act for information to be withheld if making it available would be likely to prejudice international relations.
To date, no other countries have come back to us, I will let you know if we get any responses by our deadline of Friday.
Regards
Gaynor
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1) Does this email- which pretty clearly seems relevant to several of my questions in OIA2425 0299- "Is it standard practice for DIA when consulting external parties in response to a OIA request to disclose the name, employer, job title, and political affiliation of the requester?"- exist in DIA's email systems?
2) If it does exist in DIA's systems, why was it not even included in the table of communications within DIA and with external parties regarding OIA1819-0421?
3) If it does not exist in DIA's systems, that raises the question of why it doesn't exist in DIA's systems. Does the DIA allow deletion of emails related to OIA requests from DIA's email systems?
Yours faithfully,
Peter Brown
From: minadviceteam
Department of Internal Affairs
Dear Peter
Please find attached a reply to your request made under the Official Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Rachel
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Sent: Monday, 18 August 2025 4:21 pm
To: OIA <[DIA request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - RE: Exclusion of emails from document search/DIA deletion of damning emails
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Dear Department of Internal Affairs,
I was reviewing your response to request OIA2425 0299, and was rather surprised. The response provides a list of emails regarding an OIA request by a NZ Member of Parliament, most of which were entirely redacted. I already have all those emails as they were received by [email address] and [email address]. What does surprise me, is that a critical email- one sent to the zionists which provides personally identifying information of a requester, phrased in a way that suggests there has been no consultation with the requestor to confirm that their personal details may be disclosed, was not even mentioned in the table of emails considered in responding to my request. That email is below, though I have redacted information that was sent to the zionists by Miss Bradfield:
[START]
From: Gaynor Bradfield [REDACTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 4:33 AM
To: ג'סי (ישי) רוזנבליט <[email address]>; Leonie Parminter [REDACTED]
Cc: אושרת מור ברק <[email address]>; [REDACTED]
Subject: RE: Happy New Year and Freedom of information act request Good afternoon Jesse
Thank for your email. I can advise that the request for information has been made by a Member of Parliament [REDACTED]. These sorts of requests are regularly directed to [REDACTED] under our Official Information Act. This particular request has been made by [REDACTED] MP. She is her party’s [REDACTED].
The Act does not require a requestor to advise why they want the information, so I cannot give you any information about that.
We appreciate that you may not wish the parts of the document related to Israel to be released. If that is the case, there is provision in the Act for information to be withheld if making it available would be likely to prejudice international relations.
To date, no other countries have come back to us, I will let you know if we get any responses by our deadline of Friday.
Regards
Gaynor
[END]
1) Does this email- which pretty clearly seems relevant to several of my questions in OIA2425 0299- "Is it standard practice for DIA when consulting external parties in response to a OIA request to disclose the name, employer, job title, and political affiliation of the requester?"- exist in DIA's email systems?
2) If it does exist in DIA's systems, why was it not even included in the table of communications within DIA and with external parties regarding OIA1819-0421?
3) If it does not exist in DIA's systems, that raises the question of why it doesn't exist in DIA's systems. Does the DIA allow deletion of emails related to OIA requests from DIA's email systems?
Yours faithfully,
Peter Brown
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From: Peter Brown
Dear Rachel,
Thanks, so just to be absolutely clear, you are confirming that Gaynor Bradfield did indeed provide private information regarding the details of an OIA requester to the 'government' or 'israel', which has a long history of conducting international assassinations of political figures?
Yours sincerely,
Peter Brown
From: minadviceteam
Department of Internal Affairs
Tçnâ koe Peter,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Brown <[FOI #32046 email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2025 8:12 AM
To: minadviceteam <[email address]>
Subject: Re: Reply to your Official Information Act 1982 request, reference OIA2526-0208 - Follow up request to OIA2425-0299
Dear Rachel,
Thanks, so just to be absolutely clear, you are confirming that Gaynor Bradfield did indeed provide private information regarding the details of an OIA requester to the 'government' or 'israel', which has a long history of conducting international assassinations of political figures?
Yours sincerely,
Peter Brown
-----Original Message-----
Dear Peter
Please find attached a reply to your request made under the Official Information Act 1982.
Kind regards
Rachel
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A response from DIA under
https://fyi.org.nz/request/28507-re-happ...
confirms that an email was- curiously- excluded from the original set of emails provided in response to this request, in which the private personally identifying information of a New Zealand citizen was provided by DIA to an 'israeli' government agency with links to assassination teams.
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