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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by ernesth on Saturday April 06, 2013 @08:54AM (#5503440)
This is not the same "french intelligence agency". Rainbow Warrior had to do with what is now DGSE http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate-General_for_Externa.... In the current case, it is the DCRI http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_centrale_du_renseigne... which is in action. One is under the responsability of the defense minister, the other under the interior minister
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Re:French homeland intelligence threatens a sysop into delet... by doe88 on Saturday April 06, 2013 @09:00AM (#5503458)
Indeed. More or less the DCRI would be equivalent to the FBI and the DGSE would be equivalent to a kind of CIA/NSA even if it is not completely true given that CIA is a civil agency. But what's important is that DCRI's competency is domestic intelligence and DGSE is for foreign intelligence.
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