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10. Nachrichtendienste
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co
ntent/article/2010/03/17/AR201003170255
8.html
CIA-Direktor Leon Panetta ist davon überzeugt, dass die
Geheimoperationen seines Dienstes in Pakistan der Al-Qaida
schweren Schaden zugefügt hätten. "So profound is al-
Qaeda's disarray that one of its lieutenants, in a recently
intercepted message, pleaded with bin Laden to come to the
group's rescue and provide some leadership, Panetta said.
He credited improved coordination with Pakistan's
government and what he called 'the most aggressive
operation that CIA has been involved in our history,'
offering a near-acknowledgment of what is officially a
secret war." |
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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n02/daniel-soa
r/short-cuts
Der Detroit-Attentäter wurde von den Sicherheitsbehörden
nach Ansicht von Daniel Soar auch aufgrund der
beschränkten Funktionsweise der Datenbank "Terrorist
Identities Datamart Environment" (TIDE) übersehen, die
eigentlich auf verdächtige Personen aufmerksam machen
soll. "It turns out that one of the main functions of TIDE
is, as the name suggests (it's an 'identities' datamart),
to help establish whether person X is the same as person Y.
(...) they aren't going out actively looking for the people
on their watchlists; they just wait for them to pop up
occasionally, at which point they can sometimes find out
more about them. The rest of the time they're trying to
keep their data tidy, and complete; often, it seems, they
fail. It was this kind of failure that prevented Mutallab's
name being elevated from TIDE to the No Fly List, as it
apparently would have been had the various bits of
information about him been entered in the right boxes and
searched for in the right way." |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co
ntent/article/2010/01/18/AR201001180398
2_pf.html
Das FBI hat nach eigenen Angaben jahrelang unter Vorgabe
falscher Terrorwarnungen über 2.000 Telefonaufzeichnungen
von US-Bürgern gesammelt und damit gegen das Gesetz
verstossen. "FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni said in an
interview Monday that the FBI technically violated the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act when agents invoked
nonexistent emergencies to collect records. 'We should have
stopped those requests from being made that way,' she said.
The after-the-fact approvals were a 'good-hearted but not
well-thought-out' solution to put phone carriers at ease,
she said. In true emergencies, Caproni said, agents always
had the legal right to get phone records, and lawyers have
now concluded there was no need for the after-the-fact
approval process. 'What this turned out to be was a self-
inflicted wound,' she said." |
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas
/articles/2010/01/17/think_different_ci
a/?page=full
Robert Jervis meint, dass die Probleme der amerikanischen
Geheimdienste bei der rechtzeitigen Aufdeckung von
Terrorplänen auf einen fehlerhaften Denkansatz
zurückgeführt werden können. "Our minds are, then, very
good at forming a coherent picture, but less good at
challenging it, questioning its assumptions, and coming up
with alternative explanations. We are quick and often
assured, but we are not self-correcting. If there are flaws
in the way that we think, then gathering more and more
information isn't a solution. What our intelligence system
really needs is ways to avoid becoming trapped by the
natural tendency to leap to conclusions and stick with
them." |
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http://www.jamestown.org/programs/gta/s
ingle/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=35910
&tx_ttnews[backPid]=26&cHash=d6
51d105c3
Zachary Abuza berichtet über bemerkenswerte Erfolge der
indonesischen Sicherheitsbehörden im Kampf gegen den
Terrorismus. "No country deserves more credit for improving
its counterterrorism operations and capabilities than
Indonesia. While terrorism will never be eliminated,
Indonesia has developed a strong and effective
counterterrorist force, while at the same time
consolidating its democratic transition. There is no other
country in the world that can make this claim." |
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/
2010/01/06/surveillance/index.html
Das Versagen der amerikanischen Sicherheitsdienste bei der
rechtzeitigen Entdeckung des Detroit-Attentäters hängt
nach Ansicht von Glenn Greenwald direkt mit der
massenhaften Sammlung von Daten zusammen, die nach dem 11.
September 2001 eingeleitet wurde. "(...) our intelligence
agencies - just as was true for 9/11 - failed to understand
what they had in their possession. Why is that? Because
they had too much to process, including too much data
wholly unrelated to Terrorism. In other words, our panic-
driven need to vest the Government with more and more
surveillance power every time we get scared again by
Terrorists - in the name of keeping us safe - has exactly
the opposite effect. Numerous pieces of evidence prove
that." |
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http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/67/4
99345/text/
Reymer Klüver kommentiert das "Zögern" des US-
Präsidenten beim Umbau der Geheimdienste. "US-Präsident
Obama geisselt die Fehler der Geheimdienste mit starken
Worten - doch es fehlen starke Taten. Er hatte genug Zeit,
das System umzubauen. Das macht ihn angreifbar." |
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http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/1/0
,3672,7973409,00.html
Axel Zimmermann stellt die Geheimdienste der USA vor. "Die
USA nehmen ihre Sicherheit sehr ernst - und das nicht erst
seit dem 11. September 2001. Ausser der Bundespolizei FBI
lauschen, recherchieren und spionieren 15 zivile und
militärische Geheimdienste der USA in aller Welt: ein
Überblick." |
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20. März 2010
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