In the Netherlands we have a guy, Ronald Plasterk, who is so full of it that it makes you wanna puke. There was this revelation by Snowden about 1.8 milion telephone taps and Plasterk immediately had to vent out his immediate hard-on on state television.
There he was, telling tales. He created a story about how the NSA performed these taps and about how Dutch intelligence (partly under his “command”, the other half falls under the responsibility of “Defense” minister Hennis) had absolutely and totally nothing to do with this.
That was in October. (See more at: http://krapuul.com/blog/288/lying-piece-of-crap-interior-minister-plasterk-pvda-and-his-day-of-shame/)