Intelligence Dilemma: The State and the AfD Risk
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5 Articles
If the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt comes to the government, it has the constitutional protection in its hands. Putin's spies would probably be pleased.
What happens if an AfD-led state government gets access to top secret intelligence information? After the election victory in Saxony-Anhalt, the concern about possible data outflows to Russia, for example, is growing, should the AfD really form a government and thus come into office. While the constitutional leaders in Cologne discuss information barriers, Rasmus Buchsteiner analyses the security policy [...]
A Ministry of the Interior of the region headed by the far right would have direct access to confidential information from German domestic espionage
After the election victory of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, constitutionalists see risks for security: secret and security-relevant information could flow to the wrong people.
A potential AfD interior minister in Saxony-Anhalt would also become head of the state's Office for the Protection of Constitutional Order. Because this would give him access to sensitive files, other intelligence services are already planning to cut off the flow of information.
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