[HN Gopher] Dutch intelligence services now share less informati...
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       Dutch intelligence services now share less information with US
        
       Author : saubeidl
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2025-10-18 20:13 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.dutchnews.nl)
        
       | kjellsbells wrote:
       | Even if you are a govt that likes Trump, it's hard to avoid the
       | conclusion that the he and his administration are very much not
       | "clean on opsec".
       | 
       | We have had, in no particular order: the boxes in the bathroom at
       | mar-a-lago, the Chinese lady wandering around the property
       | unescorted, the casual tweeting of classified satellite imagery,
       | the adding of journalists to group chats, the use of unsecured
       | phone messaging picked up by photographers. Then we have people
       | in the presidential orbit demonstrably funded by adversaries (Tim
       | Pope, Maria Butina). Oh and the obvious conflict of interest
       | around the leaderships investments. Amd we havent even got to the
       | blackmail risk posed by materials alleged in the Epsteim files.
       | 
       | If you were a regular civilian whose employer was looking to get
       | you a clearance, any of these kinds of things would put your
       | application in the shredder.
       | 
       | Given these facts, I would not expect any of the EU or FiveEyes
       | partners to share everything they learn.
        
         | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
         | > I would not expect any of the EU or FiveEyes partners to
         | share everything they learn.
         | 
         | I've been scraping hard to find something positive from this
         | administration. Anything about intelligence services "sharing
         | less information" is likely to be one.
         | 
         | This is tied to US IC's long history of (near exclusively)
         | surveilling people not suspected of a crime and rarely (if
         | ever) telling a public truth about it.
        
         | mmooss wrote:
         | > Even if you are a govt that likes Trump, it's hard to avoid
         | the conclusion that the he and his administration are very much
         | not "clean on opsec".
         | 
         | Also, Trump adopts the tactical position of arbitrary power: He
         | asserts the power to do whatever he wants, and to disregard
         | your interests. That tactic has some advantages but also means
         | even his allies can't rely on him not turning on them.
        
         | add-sub-mul-div wrote:
         | And then there was the first term.
         | https://www.reuters.com/article/world/trump-revealed-intelli...
        
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