Thank you so much, it takes courage to do this. Bedankt voor je dienst de afgelopen jaren, ik hoop dat je onze veiligheidsdiensten af en toe goed dwars hebt gezeten!
> On a final note, if anyone is looking for a government regulator with a proven track record of resigning when things go wrong, know that I’m available.
Hope this triggers re-evaluation of the proposed law by the Dutch legislators.
Like I'd have to think for just a fucking second, stop and think it's a big ask...but yeah.
Idealism.
Yeah.
My reading is that it isn't so much about the security agencies (in the Netherlands at least), but the politicians that are widening scope because that's what they think is needed.
One of the problems in recent Dutch political culture is that elected officials listen less and less to their experts and own ministerial advices, and more and more to (imagined) public calls. The idea that part of their role means to translate, explain and defend technical advices from their ministries seems to have been entirely abandoned.