Licensed to kill, hack, sabotage or disinform — Germany’s spy ‘revolution’

Germany’s federal security intelligence services — its state spy network (the equivalent of the CIA or Britain’s MI6) — have been granted malicious new powers. The BND, or Bundesnachrichtendienst, will be given potentially lethal functions, including a new “licence to open fire.” It maintains that this will only be used in “self-defence” scenarios, however. The […] By Cameron Baillie