Who is the 'they' in your comment? The Capgemini report underlying all this, in no unclear terms, states that Huawei abused their access; with unmonitored and unauthorized access from China.

Additionally, it concludes that Dutch telecom act was violated by Huawei by being able to access the numbers being tapped by Dutch security services.

All statements in the original news article are backed up by the Capgemini report. Of course this report could be wrong, but then it's curious why KPN decided to keep this report a secret, apart from sharing the results with Dutch intelligence (AIVD).

Either way, I have a hard time seeing how any of this is 'spin'.

I don't need to spin anything. I hereby oppose Huawei having this kind of unlimited and unchecked access in past present and future.

The only part that is unclear, and may never be clear, is whether this authority has been abused. However I oppose them (or anyone) having the authority in the first place.