Better arguments must be made by the Dutch minister of the interior and kingdom relations, Ronald Plasterk, for why he refuses to provide phone tapping statistics of the General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD). The decision was handed down by the Administrative Jurisdiction Division of the Council of State, the highest general administrative court, following a case concerning a journalist's request for tapping statistics. According to the decision, the minister should have argued more profoundly why the statistics would give clues to the AIVD working methods.
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Refusal to Release Tapping Statistics Concerns Dutch Court
Better arguments must be made by the Dutch minister of the interior and kingdom relations, Ronald Plasterk, for why he refuses to provide phone tapping statistics of the General Intelligence and Security Service...
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