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Yes - I have heard about it here!Suspected Russian spy arrested in German intelligence agency – DW – 12/22/2022
An employee of the German intelligence agency the BND has been arrested after being suspected of sending classified information to Russia.www.dw.com
At least things are now moving in the right direction
This is the title:One of the biggest features of the preamble to war was the failure of European intelligence to predict it. This has been acknowledged by both the German Chancellor and French President in highly publicized resignations and sackings of top officials:
German navy chief resigns over Ukraine comments
French intelligence chief Vidaud fired over Russian war failings
Why did European intelligence fail? We were discussing this war here 3 months before the invasion?
If Russia invades the Ukraine...
The British and Americans knew about this in October and were sharing intelligence about it months ago.
Maybe God knows everything.
But Secret Services are not God.
I find it so very cheap to accuse Secret Services that they are not God.
I'm sure things will get better once people vote the CDU back into office, where they were 16 years.They did not need to know everything to know that something major was going on. The British and Americans got it this time. The Germans and the French clearly did not. Given that this has cost the economy hundreds of billions of euros and massively inconvenienced ordinary Germans vis a vis the cost of living and possibly completely overthrown the way that Germany does business for a generation to come this is not a minor issue. Yes, we can hold intelligence services to account. They serve German voters like you and me and the national interests of Germany. They failed here in a major way as did the political class generally. Things need to change so that they do things better next time round!!
I'm sure things will get better once people vote the CDU back into office, where they were 16 years?
Under Merz? Unlikely. They seem busy blaming the current government for the things they screwed up.I am hoping the CDU undergoes a major refresh in opposition and comes back ready for office at the next election.
Yes, but they are in alliance with a country that has got these and still did not listen. Why? Did the reaction to Trump make them all deaf? Did they just not have the sense to see good intelligence coming from the Americans and indeed the British (post BREXIT)?
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