Something Rotten in the State of Denmark

Hi All,

First, great changes, thanks Bell Curve.

Now, a little news from beyond our provincial little worlds: The Danish Defense Minister (Mr. Svend Aage Jensby) has resigned his position in response to a scandal about interference with Parliamentary oversight of the Danish intelligence/investigation agency.

The scandal revolves around excerpts of Government documents that were made public that showed that the Danish government (which has 500 soldiers in Iraq) continued to think there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. This even though an earlier interview with a Danish intelligence officier claimed that the Prime Minister and Defense Minister were repeatedly told by Danish intelligence officiers before the war that the U.S. led coalition was unlikely to find WMDs in Iraq.

Mr. Jensby (of the center-right Liberal party) got into more and more trouble when he got tangled up in the resulting political fight with opposition parliamentarians from the Social Democratic Party (center-left) and Socialist People's Party (left).

You can get more details from the BBC news link on this blog. Or, if you can read Danish, you could link to a Danish newspaper like Politiken.

I don't think this will in any way disrupt the global supply of sugar cookies, Carlsberg beer or Legos.