Schlagwort: Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz
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German secret service law does not have to go into the shredder
The Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that the domestic secret service violates the principle of separation. The legislature should therefore amend the law The German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz) is no longer allowed to pass on secretly collected data on individuals to police authorities as it pleases. This […]
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Bundestag report finds flaws in the oversight of European intelligence services in The Hague
The Federal Ministry of the Interior is using every possible means to keep Parliament from learning details of the cooperation between European domestic intelligence services in The Hague. The official reason is an internal agreement between the services. Yet the Federal Government has an obligation to furnish parliamentarians with information, even when there is a […]