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>German intelligence is likely more sophisticated than American intelligence. Doubtful. German intelligence is probably as effective as Wally from Dilbert. How
by iSnow 12y ago
>German intelligence is likely more sophisticated than American intelligence.
Doubtful. German intelligence is probably as effective as Wally from Dilbert. However, shelving TTIP and/or expelling the US ambassador would make a statement.
And of course - in the long run - not sitting on our asses but building and effective intelligence service ourselves.
- Tomte 12y agoThat's the big guessing game everyone is playing here: is our intelligence community really as clueless and incapable as we Germans tend to assume? Or is that just a masterful deceit?
- Svip 12y agoAs Tomte points out, this is largely a guessing game we are playing. How can we really know one way or the other? But I concede, German intelligence is likely the weaker link in European intelligence agencies (and weaker than American as well), not from lack of skill or knowhow, but a political inability to pursue it. Germany's recent history has left Germans rather on the unfavourable side of intelligence agencies and surveillance. I would even imagine the Allies imposing restrictions on the Germans following the Second World War.
- arethuza 12y agoOne odd thing about German intelligence - they have their own set of Russian launched synthetic aperture radar spy satellites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAR-Lupe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAR-Lupe Germany has the synthetic aperture radar birds and France runs optical satellites. I'd love to know who they spend most time watching.