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| Afghanistan: Debacle for Germany's intelligence services |
| 2021-08-21 |
| [DW] The Federal Intelligence Service, or BND, is Germany's key foreign intelligence agency. It is tasked with collecting, collating and evaluating information, and with providing the government with an early warning system on critical developments in the fields of foreign and security policy. Now the BND's image has been seriously tarnished, both at home and abroad, by its failure to alert the German government of the impending disaster in Afghanistan. This has in turn put the government itself under massive pressure to explain how such a fiasco was possible. As recently as June, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told the German parliament, the Bundestag, that it was inconceivable "that the Taliban |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #4 Don't worry. There's plenty of blame to go around. Problem is, it will likely not be distributed. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2021-08-21 17:32 |
| #3 I think a simple rule of thumb can be applied: Anyone who wants to be a politician, intelligence official or "policy wonk" probably should be rejected as unsuitable on principle. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-08-21 17:22 |
| #2 Complete with infighting amongst allies? Biden sure knows how to fuck things up. |
| Posted by: Raj 2021-08-21 01:10 |
| #1 Yet unconfirmed, but I was told last evening that a shouting match ensued after the 82n Abn CO instructed the Brits to terminate their SOF repatriation efforts outside the airport perimeter. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2021-08-21 01:08 |