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RE: Exclusion of emails from document search/DIA deletion of damning emails

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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

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Dear Peter

Please find attached a reply to your request made under the Official Information Act 1982.

Kind regards

Rachel

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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

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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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From: minadviceteam
Department of Internal Affairs

Tçnâ koe Peter,

Thank you for your OIA request to the Department of Internal Affairs (included with this email)

The Department will provide its response to your request as soon as practicable and within 20 working days. The 20th working day is 15 October 2025.

Please note that in cases where the Department’s response provides information that is identified to be of general public interest, the response may also be published on the Department of Internal Affairs website. If the Department publishes its response to your OIA request, all personal information, including your name and contact details, will be removed.

Ministerial and Monitoring Group
Policy and Te Tiriti Branch
Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua
45 Pipitea Street, Thorndon |
PO Box 805, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
http://www.dia.govt.nz/

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