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about:black - The NSA-investigation committee in the German parliament

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Investigating the German secret service

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 Investigation committees concerned with various other subjects in the past have not been able to find answers to all open questions but they have proofed to yield answers to some of the most significant questions. However, this investigation committee has to fight greater obstacles than its precursors did. In addition, the technological knowledge of its members is rather limited. They are dependent upon supporting experts to ask the right questions in the investigations. There are already plans to hear more independent experts like members of the CCC (Chaos Computer Club).

Hopefully, with the expert's help - which may make many of Snowden's documents more useful to the committee - proof will be found to what the BND and its international counterparts are and have been doing. Incontestable and comprehensible facts, found by the committee as part of the German legislature would force other branches to react and might also cause international reactions. If it fails to do so, such facts should at least be able to bring mass-surveillance back into public discourse and might finally trigger stronger reactions. \ No newline at end of file

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All of this seems to be dependent on eliding a political reality. It isn't going to happen, and you know it isn't going to happen. The government and the services have both political control of parliamentary outcomes and sufficient "national security" clout to shut down the conversation. At best, Germany will fail to enact permanent authorization for the services to do whatever the fuck they want, in the Franco-British form. At worst, Thomas de Mezière will get for the services the same deal they're getting in the other "major" European powers. And no one wants to offend the Americans about this right now.

So once again, the issue this draft doesn't come to grips with and the next one should is, what's the point? Surely it isn't whether a parliamentary investigation is going to "succeed." Let's focus the draft on the actual issue, whatever it is.

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