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You phrase it as if this is a daily occurrence, "other agencies request info & access". In Germany, when intelligence agencies merge with ordinary law enforceme

You phrase it as if this is a daily occurrence, "other agencies request info & access". In Germany, when intelligence agencies merge with ordinary law enforcement, we call it Gestapo. There should be by definition very little overlap between the two. Law enforcement works nationally, where law applies; intelligence agencies can not work where law applies, because they would be in flagrant violation of it.

schlowmo 9y ago
> "In Germany, when intelligence agencies merge with ordinary law enforcement, we call it Gestapo." Who is "we" in this context? At least in the Germany I know most people actually call this "Gefahrenabwehr" (literally: danger prevention) or "Staatsschutz" and can't remember any historic event which has shown that this is a bad idea. If right-wing terrorist join the party people call it "Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund" (National Socialist Underground) [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Undergrou...