Jens Holm has been a member of the Riksdag since 2010 and is, among other things, chairman of the Transport Committee.
He has a strong commitment to issues of surveillance and human rights and is shaken by the revelation that Swedish politicians have been monitored.
- I get pissed and shocked that it has happened that way.
I do not know who they listened to.
It feels like the Cold War, says Jens Holm.
Directs sharp criticism
Holm is sharp in his criticism after SVT's and DR's revelation that the American intelligence service NSA with the help of the Danish military intelligence service, Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE) spied on Swedish leading politicians and officials and believes that it is a violation of Sweden as a country.
- We as politicians represent the Swedish people.
We represent Sweden, he says.
Today we do not know exactly who has been intercepted and at what time.
Self-engaged in Edward Snowden
In addition, Holm says, it is very problematic if he himself has been intercepted by foreign power.
- I have had a lot of contact with people who are engaged in oppositional political struggle in their home countries.
It has been about Palestinians who are in clinch with Israel, it has been about political activists from Colombia where paramilitary groups have hunted them down and it has been about people hiding refugees, he says.
In 2012 and 2014, the two years the "Dunhammer" report examined the eavesdropping on the Danish cables, Jens Holm was involved in several issues that were of interest to the US intelligence service NSA.
- The NSA may find it provocative that I and a few others have nominated Edward Snowden for the Nobel Peace Prize because he revealed the NSA's surveillance activities, says Jens Holm who also went to Moscow in 2015 to talk to Snowden.
The revelation of "Operation Dunhammer" has been led by Danmarks Radio and is a collaboration between newsrooms on SVT, NRK, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Le Monde, WDR, NDR.