An interesting study about the role, means and scope of intelligence services (Germany, United States of America and Great Britian) and their common aim to know more than others in order to provide literally national security has been published by Stefan Heumann and Ben Scott. Seems that Edward Snowden´s documents opened doors for "academic research". In this study Heumann´s and Scott´s principal points are: "Germans have been among the most outspoken critics of the US government. These critics implicitly make the assumption that Germany has higher standards than the US in regard to limiting and controlling its intelligence agencies. In this paper, we test this assumption by comparing the underlying law governing signals intelligence programs aimed at non-citizen communications in the US, the UK and Germany." It is not surprising that the NSA has a profiled position regarding technical possibilities, neither that all intelligence services benefit from insufficient institutional control. (Image: Süddeutsche)
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