The government this week ordered a judicial inquiry into whether the South Pacific nation's intelligence services could have prevented the March 15 attack.
File: An image grab from TV New Zealand taken on March 15, 2019 shows a victim arriving at a hospital following the mosque shooting in Christchurch.
Andrew Little -- the minister responsible for the GCSB and SIS intelligence services -- said he had signed powerful surveillance warrants as information gathering continued in the wake of the attack."I have given authority to the agencies to do intrusive activities under warrant, the number of those I'm not at liberty to disclose," he told Radio New Zealand.
"The whole gambit of what would otherwise be described as intrusive activity," he told the New Zealand Herald."The purpose of a warrant is to authorise and effectively make lawful what would otherwise be unlawful activity." "Until there's a very microscopic look at what the agencies have been doing and whether they've missed anything, I can't say for certain," he told RNZ.
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