Because Germany raises its control over internal intelligence

6 July 20222 years ago babelfish

The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Bfv), Germany's internal intelligence agency, will be subject to a supervisory authority. The article by Giuseppe Gagliano

The Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz (Bfv), Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or Germany's internal intelligence agency, will be subject to a supervisory authority just like the Bnd which is under the control of the independent supervisory board (Unabhangiger Kontrollrat – UKR).

Why did this change happen?

With a ruling that made history in Germany, the Constitutional Court, the highest German court, declared that the methodologies used by the German regional internal security service of the Bavarian state LFV were to be considered illegal because they provided, without any authorization, the tracing mobile phones and the use of cyber infiltration tools. The use of these methodologies should be authorized by an independent body.

Due to political pressure, the UKR will eventually monitor the activities of the German BFV service as well. If from a political point of view this legal and institutional modification offers greater guarantees of transparency, on the other hand it is evident that this supervisory authority could make cooperation with other foreign intelligence agencies extremely difficult.

In fact, let's not forget that this service is responsible for identifying espionage operations and undercover agents in Germany.

Finally, we cannot fail to point out an important and significant change in the organization chart of the BFV: in fact, a woman has been appointed as vice -president of this service, Felor Badenberg. The latter will collaborate with the other vice president of the BfV, namely Sinan Selen , member of the executive committee of the BfV.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/perche-la-germania-alza-il-controllo-sullintelligence-interna/ on Tue, 05 Jul 2022 10:11:07 +0000.