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Two newspapers have also refused to let the police question their journalists, because it’s not specified why they want to interview them, and given that they won’t name sources, questioning becomes pointless.
Do those requests usually go through a newspaper and not to the individual?
Two newspapers have also refused to let the police question their journalists, because it’s not specified why they want to interview them, and given that they won’t name sources, questioning becomes pointless.
Do those requests usually go through a newspaper and not to the individual?
This is an absolutely bonkers story by Danish standard. The guy is amongst the highest ranking civil servants, holds the order of Dannebro. On top of this a number of Danish journalists have been "taken in for a chat" by the intelligence services. The charges are still secret, but appears to be related to this story: Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany's Angela Merkel: report https://www.dw.com/en/danish-s…
>Danish intelligence also helped the US agency to spy on the Danish foreign and finance ministries as well as a Danish weapons manufacturer. The FE also cooperated with the NSA on spying operations against the US government itself.
https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on...
The NSA made the Danish FE spy on both the Danish and US government. That is wild.
My guess is that this guy said “no” to the wrong person, and this is payback. I will also guess that this chief is probably on the ethically correct side of the situation.
Because I see your conclusion only as a vague possible hypothesis among many other options.
And intelligence services are by default usually into very grey, if not dark areas of ethics. So all this might just as well be an internal power struggle of which the public will only get to view a very distorted picture, of what was actually going on.
My guess is that this guy said “no” to the wrong person, and this is payback. I will also guess that this chief is probably on the ethically correct side of the situation.
An interesting case indeed. I hope more info surfaces. We know things are bad, question is in what exact ways. Maybe something of substance will trickle down to us mortals.
Two newspapers have also refused to let the police question their journalists, because it’s not specified why they want to interview them, and given that they won’t name sources, questioning becomes pointless.
Do those requests usually go through a newspaper and not to the individual?
The journalists aren’t legally required to allow themselfs to be questioned. That’s only if the case goes to court, but no one is refusing to testify in that case, because then the charges are public and a judge is present.
- in august he had been put on administrative leave
- he was imprisoned on the 9th of december
- on the 13th of december an independant commission set up by parliament (consisting of three judges) exponerated everyone implicated in this case
- on the 14th of december, the minister of defence welcomed him back to work
- today, 10th of january the public learned for the first time that he was imprisoned and still is imprisoned.
So even though he was exonerated by the independent commitee AND welcomed back by the minister, he is actually in prison. Very strange situation, makes we wonder if there are aspects of the case the public does not know about, or if someone has made an enormous error.
This is an absolutely bonkers story by Danish standard. The guy is amongst the highest ranking civil servants, holds the order of Dannebro. On top of this a number of Danish journalists have been "taken in for a chat" by the intelligence services. The charges are still secret, but appears to be related to this story: Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany's Angela Merkel: report https://www.dw.com/en/danish-s…
If anyone is doubting how much influence US intelligence has over Danish intelligence: >Danish intelligence also helped the US agency to spy on the Danish foreign and finance ministries as well as a Danish weapons manufacturer. The FE also cooperated with the NSA on spying operations against the US government itself. https://www.dw.com/en/danish-secret-service-helped-us-spy-on... The NSA made the Danish FE spy on bot…
It’s long be standard practice for intelligence agencies in 5/9 Eyes to ask each other to spy on the others citizens when it would be illegal to do so themselves.
The NSA for example would find it difficult to spy on Senators, this is there way around it. And there is no denying there has be a reasonable cause to in the last four years.
This is an absolutely bonkers story by Danish standard. The guy is amongst the highest ranking civil servants, holds the order of Dannebro. On top of this a number of Danish journalists have been "taken in for a chat" by the intelligence services. The charges are still secret, but appears to be related to this story: Danish secret service helped US spy on Germany's Angela Merkel: report https://www.dw.com/en/danish-s…
Do you mean 'Dannebrog' (Dannebrogordenen)? Dannebro reads like a title a fraternity would give you