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Questions about intelligence gathering organizations within a government. Use with an appropriate country tag.

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I was reading through Al Jazeera: British officials have responded with tighter measures. In March, the UK government said Iran would be required to register any political influence activity inside ...
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Background The BfV classified around 36% of AfD members as right-wing extremist for the year 2022. With no dedicated critics of the AfD's extremist faction (aligned with Björn Höcke, formerly called ...
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What are the holes in the records retention laws and regulations regarding US intelligence agencies that make it possible for documents to be deleted? I am asking, because there might be a historical ...
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When can one U.S. agency ask for intelligence or information from another U.S. agency? Let's say the FBI needs intelligence of information the CIA might have about a certain individual. Can the FBI ...
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The German intelligence agencies often complain, that they are ill-equipped to deal with terror attacks efficiently because they lack the legal authority to use certain surveillance methods. For ...
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There is a lot of talk and pearl-clutching, at the moment, about possible politicization of intelligence services. It usually involves current of former intelligence or counter-intelligence officials ...
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This question is NOT about any one country. It is about whether there is an accepted convention about whether former employer countries are responsible for future actions of their would-be retired ...
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There seems to be some debate, if extrajudicial killings commited by intelligence services are legal and what laws they are breaking. Famous historical examples are the killings committed by the ...
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There are several reports about Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) targeting the CIA (example1, example2). But why? I am sure there are specific interests of Pakistan involved in this. What ...
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Politically, are there actually equivalents to 00 agents, as per James Bond? That is, not just people who work for an intelligence agency, but people who are sent on missions behind enemy lines with ...
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I thought I heard that, without some of the provisions in the Patriot Act, intelligence agencies would not be allowed to share information with other agencies. But the President is the head of the ...
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Given that the operatives of Israel are almost entirely self financed, and that Israeli crime groups often engage in drug dealing, prostitution etc, it seems feasible that they may or may not have ...
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How is a committee, for example, the House Intelligence Committee formed, how do the people that oversee the intelligence agencies get selected?
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