God's Own's Very Own Cause Celebre & Folkhero #3

Attorney-General Christopher Finlayson had an interesting speech during Parliament's urgent debate on the matter last week, in which he spoke admiringly dispassionately and moreover made the interesting point/observation that it was just as well that the P.M. and his deputy hadn't in fact been more in hands-on command of the issue - i.e. of NZ"s security service apparatus - for surely that would be, or would smack of, the hallmarks of a police state - something people understandably enough accused Rob Muldoon of when he wielded that privileged position of being head of the S.I.S. and occasionally divulged info which suggested he was having a little too much hands-on control of its day-to-day operations.