{"id":740,"date":"2005-09-10T09:29:34","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T12:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=740"},"modified":"2005-09-10T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2005-09-10T12:30:11","slug":"where-is-that-file","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=740","title":{"rendered":"Where is that file?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>eird news from The Netherlands: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu.nl\/news\/589735\/15\/Dossier_atoomspion_zoek_bij_rechtbank_Amsterdam.html\">the criminal file on nuclear scientist Khan has been displaced<\/a>, or as Dutch people would say &#8216;misappropriated&#8217;. Yesterday, a retiring judge for the Amsterdam judicial court who presided the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan\">Khan-case<\/a> in the early Eighties, told reporters that she was surprised about earlier remarks from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&#038;story_id=22629\">former prime minister Lubbers<\/a>. Besides misplaced documents, she said, judicial errors and a lacklustre Justice department plagued the criminal case against Khan, things that (according to her) clearly show that the Dutch judicial system was gamed for political reasons.\n<\/p>\n<p>Lubbers comments (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.expatica.com\/source\/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&#038;story_id=22629\">which you can find at Expatica&#8217;s<\/a>) about that time, clearly show how close the ties were between the (then) Dutch and US governments, that it doesn&#8217;t come to a surprise that documents &#8216;mysteriously&#8217; disappeared.\n<\/p>\n<p>Spies, misplaced documents and a bungling justice department. Add national protests against Pershing missiles, economical and political unrest, and you get a typical Eighties spy story. That is, a story where the end of it actually makes it into the history books because of the political implications and consequences of letting Khan off the hook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weird news from The Netherlands: the criminal file on nuclear scientist Khan has been displaced, or as Dutch people would say &#8216;misappropriated&#8217;. Yesterday, a retiring judge for the Amsterdam judicial court who presided the Khan-case in the early Eighties, told &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}