It's the paradox of a counter-terror organisation in a democracy, transparency is needed to verify to the electorate that the job is being done properly but that same transparency severely diminishes their ability to perform said job.

No, I meant the colonization of Sápmi that took place after the Viking age.

And we got that whole colonial genocide out of the way a really long time ago too.

Maybe she's Belorussian?

Pretty much, Germans also travel north to Scandinavia for much the same reasons. Vast expanses of forest and the possibility of (illegally) grabbing some road signs warning for Moose.

Generally their failures are far more public than their successes.

Except that that was Henry Fonda who was in Once Upon a Time in the West, not John Wayne.