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Strelnikov_

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23. Comrade Skunk Hair
Tue Oct 21, 2025, 02:09 PM
Oct 2025
https://www.ft.com/content/af8042f0-5de9-4509-bcb2-2d98d26a3d21

Netherlands curtails intelligence-sharing with US over ‘human rights’

Dutch spy chiefs cite concerns about Trump administration’s ‘politicisation’ of services


The Netherlands has curtailed intelligence co-operation with the US over fears the Trump administration could use it to violate human rights or assist Russia. The heads of civilian and military intelligence said in a joint interview with Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant that they had become more cautious in what they share given the “politicisation of our intelligence”.

It is the frankest admission by a foreign spy agency about the consequences of US President Donald Trump’s interference in intelligence matters. Erik Akerboom, director-general of the AIVD domestic intelligence service, and Peter Reesink, director of the MIVD military intelligence agency, said in the interview published over the weekend that they regretted Trump had fired National Security Agency chief Timothy Haugh in April.

“I can’t comment on how that relationship is now compared to before. But it’s true that we make that decision and sometimes don’t share things anymore,” Reesink said.

They indicated the sharing restrictions applied to intelligence about Russia. Trump’s stance on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin has shifted several times this year — most recently on Friday when the US leader pressured Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to Moscow’s terms on how to end the war.

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DURec for "Madame Skunk Hair" alone n/t leftstreet Oct 2025 #1
The new WIGG party... ultralite001 Oct 2025 #9
The stench rubs off. Marcuse Oct 2025 #20
She leaks everything to Russia Johonny Oct 2025 #2
I'm sure the communications lines are always open to the Kremlin ffr Oct 2025 #15
Comrade Skunk Hair Strelnikov_ Oct 2025 #23
Breaks my heart, but yes some_of_us_are_sane Oct 2025 #29
They even named it after what they accuse Dems of. louis-t Oct 2025 #3
So reminiscent of another horrible authoritarian, whose henchmen/women were so eager hlthe2b Oct 2025 #4
There were/are several. who specifically? mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #6
There is but one who meets that exact description. You list authoritarians, dictators, strong men... hlthe2b Oct 2025 #12
ok, then I'm clueless. mwmisses4289 Oct 2025 #17
Adolph Hitler... hlthe2b Oct 2025 #19
They are pure evil. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #5
Jackbooted police-state thugs Hekate Oct 2025 #7
The DB stealing research (again)... littlemissmartypants Oct 2025 #8
"Unfettered and Unaccountable" progressoid Oct 2025 #18
Not quite: the ProPublica article is about ICE. This is about going after Biden government officials muriel_volestrangler Oct 2025 #22
Anyone know an address where I can send her a book on the Nuremberg trials? LT Barclay Oct 2025 #10
Wouldn't this be illegal as well as unconstitutional? slightlv Oct 2025 #11
Who is going to stop them? Happy Hoosier Oct 2025 #14
Totally agree with you, Hoosier! slightlv Oct 2025 #21
Some people here actually supported her. Happy Hoosier Oct 2025 #13
Myself? Personally? I bit my tongue and stayed out of the discussion... Miles Archer Oct 2025 #25
She certainly had a lot of people fooled before she comradebillyboy Oct 2025 #27
The only good thing about this is that she's gathering the worst of the worst to work for her. patphil Oct 2025 #16
Tulsi "Hillary is 'the queen of the warmongers, embodiment of corruption, personification of the rot betsuni Oct 2025 #24
Oh yeah. Hillary the so-called warmonger as . . . peggysue2 Oct 2025 #26
It's beginning to sound like the Cheka of the old Bolshevik days, Ocelot II Oct 2025 #28
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