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Old 2 February 2006, 07:56 AM   #1
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I think we have most un-secret secret service in the entire universe! A year ago, a Dutch DA in Amsterdam put his broken PC at the curb, along with other garbage waiting to be collected. Broken? Well, not the hard drive inside. A cabbie took the PC home and browsed the content of the hard drive. On it were (unprotected) dossiers about pending criminal cases, names of informants and, as an added bonus, loads and loads of kiddie porn. His boss scrambled to bail him out and before the press a vague statement was made about him not knowing he downloaded the filth. Yeah, sure. He’s not a DA anymore but still has a job. I know of several cases in which people were fired on the spot because their PC at work contained spicy material.

A couple of months ago, an employee of the Dutch Secret Service, the AIVD, left a stack of diskettes in his lease car before bringing it back to the lease company. The diskettes were found and delivered to an investigative reporter. Again, highly sensitive information and reports about covert operations. What happened to this clown I don’t know.

And now, as the piece the resistance, within a 3 weeks time span, two of those yokels each lost a USB memory stick (again, unprotected) chockfull of highly classified material. This morning, the Defense specialists of our Parliament were briefed in secret with recon and intelligence reports about the situation in Afghanistan. There’s 8 years jail time if they would utter one letter about those reports. And guess what? The draft version of that briefing and secret surveillance info about our Minister of Defense were on the stick that was lost yesterday! The finder brought the stick to the editors of a Dutch TV program and after being copied it was returned. The person who lost the USB stick is (was?) a member of the Dutch Military Intelligence Agency.

This time I think heads will roll but it is too late. Foreign secret services won’t trust as much as a 1 year old newspaper to us anymore! Damn, more holes then Swiss cheese.
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Old 2 February 2006, 08:44 AM   #2
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Dutch Military Intelligence Agency. There's an oxymoron
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Old 2 February 2006, 08:45 AM   #3
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Dutch Military Intelligence Agency. There's an oxymoron
Sad, but soooo true Bloody fools
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Old 2 February 2006, 10:12 AM   #4
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You DO realise that the real work's being done in the Environment Ministry?
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Old 2 February 2006, 02:51 PM   #5
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No pic of JJ and Frans side by side?

That is pretty sad indeed Frans.
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They must be almost as bad as our lot,they normally leave there fully working laptops,and top secret documents. On buses or trains,the secret service my ars#.
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Old 3 February 2006, 02:25 AM   #8
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You guys have a military?
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Old 3 February 2006, 02:58 AM   #9
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Yes we have and our Marines rank among the best in the world. I think 1400 troops are leaving for Afghanistan in 2 months.
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Yes we have and our Marines rank among the best in the world. I think 1400 troops are leaving for Afghanistan in 2 months.
To do what? Why wait so long? How long are they going to be there? Do they know anything about fighting? Are they Dutch?
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To do what? Why wait so long? How long are they going to be there? Do they know anything about fighting? Are they Dutch?
No JJ, they are going for a neighborhood beautification mission. They are tasked with planting one million tulips in Kabul.
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To do what? Why wait so long? How long are they going to be there? Do they know anything about fighting? Are they Dutch?
JJ, our salvation army could take over New Zealand.
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To do what? Why wait so long? How long are they going to be there? Do they know anything about fighting? Are they Dutch?
Nah, someone told them that the duty-free shopping in Kabul put Hong Kong in the shade.
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Why would the SA want to take over NZ???
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