Posted on 08/19/2021 10:34:25 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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.
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. After all, as recently as June, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas told the German parliament, the Bundestag, that it was inconceivable, “that the Taliban would, within just a few weeks, be able to seize power.” […]
Former BND intelligence officer Gerhard Conrad had an answer to that question when he appeared on Germany’s public broadcaster ARD shortly after the Taliban takeover of Kabul. Intelligence services, he said, must have a strong presence on the ground. Which was, he argued, apparently not the case in Afghanistan. When one side gets the feeling that it can “go on a victory march,” then that is precisely what it will do: “At least, that is what you have to expect,” he said. […]
Andre Hahn of the socialist Left Party is, like Grötsch, a member of the Parliamentary Oversight Panel. Speaking to DW, he accused the intelligence agencies of gross negligence. “The people at the BND appeared to have relied entirely on information from US sources,” he said. …
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Welcome to the party, pal.
Butt, the FIVE EYES!!!!!!
The Five Eyes...
International, intelligence, ignorance, incompetence, insepid.
Five “I’s.”
5.56mm
But on the bright side, no more tweets!
This is Trump’s fault as well.
Opus?
“When one side gets the feeling that it can “go on a victory march,” then that is precisely what it will do:”
Uhh, it’s called a “blitzkrieg” auf Deutsch!
Don’t know if that’s the truth, since it’s out of the mouth of a Die Linke politician (aka East German Communist Party). Wasn’t long ago that I was hearing that the CIA was over-reliant on the BND in fact.
“The people at the BND appeared to have relied entirely on information from US sources”
Well there ya fuck’n go, Krauthead.
As we did from them in regard to Iraq !
These days I think I’d trust the BND over CIA.
The corruption in Kabul mirrors the corruption in the beltway.
What percentage of taxpayer money in both realms is nothing but payola of some form....
Pelosi pays off the teachers unions and on and on to stay in power...
The Afghan army pays of the Taliban to stay alive...
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