Remkes on a knife's edge

What exactly did secretary Johan Remkes of Domestic Affairs think he was doing tonight? His political future depends on the debate with the Second Chamber, the Dutch Lower House, he's engaged in. He has to redeem himself after the AIVD failed to properly assess the risk that the murderer of Theo van Gogh, Mohammed B., posed. The AIVD didn't consider B. dangerous enough to follow him around the clock. If that had been the case
But what did Remkes do? He again tried to blame his colleague Piet-Hein Donner of Justice. Donner is indeed responsible for the coordination of all counterterrorism efforts. But at the time the crucial mistakes regarding Mohammed B. were made, this wasn't yet the case.
I will not shed any tears if I wake up tomorrow morning and it turns out there's a vacancy at Domestic Affairs

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