Although without doubt he exposed some procedures and rules not being followed, it has been a bit blown up. Security is prevention, and if you seriously want to do harm, there's always a way unless you set up really tight security and surveillance. But tight procedures at the gate, with kilometres of fences and additional gates being virtually unguarded doesn't prevent a terrorist or extremist anyway. Does the Dutch public want to pay for 100% proofed security? Nope. And does it weigh up against the loss incurred when a F-16 is being blown up or occassional stealing of equipment? Probably not... But well yes, security can always better and procedures should be followed better, but this is largely a matter of the low morale!
He got the key to the room from someone inside, who supplied him the uniforms as well. He got the tip about the bus not being checked from someone inside. He got the keys to the truck from someone who left the military. Now these are signs that something is wrong about the mentality or attitude of these individuals or the personnel on a whole. Again, not really surprising, but even more concerning. Okay, this lead to the conclusion that the concerns of personnel about security or not being heard and not acted upon. This is the real message of the persons involved, including the reporter, and it has been picked up by the defense ministry. Unfortunately, the opposition parties did not see that but rather see it as ammunition for their campaigns. Femke Halsema is very naive on many things, or at least acts as if she is...
Actually I don't dare to name any country where to a certain level the same wouldn't have been possible... maybe with the US being the only exception... but I am not even sure about all the bases inside the US... probably just as well with a bit more effort.
Finally the alert state sign at the entrance of the army base showed the lowest level... so the claim made in the program about security alert state still being high was incorrect.
He parked the truck, as far as I could tell on a publicly accessable car park of a defense institution/office, so the above report is wrong in suggesting he took it 'inside another base'. Although yeah, he probably could have depending on the base and the guy at the gate.
No Gripen, he will probably not get in trouble, reporters have a pretty protected status here and he rightly informed the military in advance of the airing of the program and offered them to watch it. As liberal as the Dutch are, even the military, they did not act upon this opportunity to censor or prevent it and told him they would respond after the program had been aired.
It's that nonpilot posted it, but actually, I wouldn't have posted it to discuss...