Cartoon: The Famous Five Eyes

It's shrouded in mystery and liberal amounts of white plastic, but now two new spooks will get to lift the veil on the Waihopai spybase.

Very few warrants sought by intelligence agencies are rejected but some do have to be tweaked, the man who signs off on them says.

The public should be more worried about Google and Facebook than New Zealand's spy agencies, Prime Minister John Key says.