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Re:Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections i... by julianpye on Sunday June 30, 2013 @08:54AM (#5965605)
The BND has a tradition to focus on political extremist groups in Germany, while domestic surveillance in the other large EU countries such as Britain, France and Spain have always had a stronger focus on Islamist groups. So I don't think it's a question of competence, but rather of focus.
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Re:Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections i... by PavlovsCat on Sunday June 30, 2013 @09:11AM (#5965645)
The BND has a tradition to focus on political extremist groups in Germany

Which is actually one of the reasons they seem so incompetent, they're not very good at that. [also, did you perchance confuse the BND with the Verfassungsschutz? Not that it matters, the Verfassungsschutz is probably worse than the BND, they help Neonazis more than harming them] Also, BND officials say some hilarious stuff when it comes to computers.

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Re:Secret Documents: NSA monitored 500 million connections i... by lesslaw on Sunday June 30, 2013 @10:23AM (#5965872)
Not the IRA and ETA ?
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