"The fact that the head of the Danish Military Intelligence Service is a willing participant in circumventing the agency tasked with holding his own intelligence service legally accountable is mind-blowing and must be deeply concerning to the minister."
Military Intelligence goes back to doing whatever they like with a shared understanding from those in power (yet not expressed as such).
The secret intelligence services in your country are not working for you or your safety, and this is not a secret. If you believe so you have not been following the news the last thirty years (before that they had a scape goat for their behaviour).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_thwarted_Islamic_terro...
https://www.google.com/search?q=ring+wing+terror+plot+foiled...
There's a balance here. To be free, we have to protect ourselves from plots like these, otherwise we would live in fear. At the same time, this protection itself threatens other kinds of freedom, like the freedom from surveillance and interference by our own governments. We have to be cognizant of this balance. We need whistle-blowers, watchdogs, and so on. But we also need state intelligence.
[0] https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Intelligence+in+An+Insecure+Worl...
Anecdotally that claim seems untrue. Intelligence services have had a tangible effect on world history.[1][2][3]
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma
Number of people working in education: 342100.
It won't make a dent.
For comparison, FBI Counterintelligence Division alone has 1-2 people per 10,000 Americans. Add different intelligence and surveillance agencies under DHS and others to that list and it's easy to see that the US has insane amount of domestic surveillance manpower per capita.
The threat model is different. No terrorist attacks of serious kind were performed as of yet but plans were found for terrorist attacks in Copenhagen. Something akin to what happened in Germany. The threat seem real.
I expect you meant "go rogue" but "go rouge", as in red/communist/russian, also works in the context.
https://www.thelocal.dk/20161021/danish-man-ran-scandinavian...
We would have to immediately defund that agency.
I thought that was the case in most countries, so they get around it by getting their buddies to do it for them, hence five-eyes (or n-eyes).
Oh wait, that’s the system (via China/Russia) that our intelligence agencies are helping protect us against.
