BERLIN, Feb 13 - Germany should beef up its intelligence services and allow them more freedom to act in the face of a range of hybrid threats from Russia, the head of the country's foreign intelligence service said on Friday. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
  • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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    24 minutes ago

    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?

  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    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.

  • birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Yeah sure.

    This kind of stuff has been misused by the NSA and CIA too, to expand their power so that during times of wannabe dictators, the State already had all means to let them become dictators. Surveillance states, no thanks!

    The only thing we need is to crush the far right. And that is indeed through crushing Russia and its mafia desinformation network, as well as reinstating democracy ASAP in the USA. The EU also needs to combat its own internal far right rapidly.

    First the EU must cure itself, then it must cure the US, and then Russia.