Yeah, let’s let the secret police commit more crimes with impunity. Then all our spies can be coopted for pedophile protection and facilitating child-sex-trafficking under the grounds of “national security”.
Secret Police are the greatest attack vector of any country for the destruction of civil rights and implementation of dictatorship. The ultimate goal should be zero secret police, especially using mass surveillance or spying on its own citizens.
I agree with the sentiment but this isn‘t really how the BND works. It‘s more like the German NSA. They have barely any real executive power and rely on other institutions or even nations to act on the information they gather. Secret services in countries like the USA, UK or even France have much greater executive powers such as a license to kill.
I see the actual Police, their powers and use of surveillance systems like Palantyr as much more problematic, personally. Or the fact that we have a de facto illegal right radical party sitting in the parliament and other parties don‘t even think about applying mechanisms to protect our democracy and freedoms from them. It looks like our secret services in Germany are at least doing their job. I wish I could say the same about politicians.
I would agree if they would use their existing laws sufficiently and not make themselves absolute fools by ignoring a upcoming ukraine war,almost getting their own boss getting captured by the Ruzzkies.
I wish I was joking.
Can I get more info on this? Sounds equally funny and tiresome
Sadly only a German source:
By now it is clear that the separation between his convoi and russian forces at one point was less than 20km. Kahl denied everything later on,but has been disproven multiple times and replaced by now. (By the former German ambassador to the Ukraine, coincidentally)
Like the freedom to not sufficiently secure the building site of the new headquarter? Or like figuring out if Iraq has weapons of mass destruction?
Why should the BND do the job and not some other agency?