MOSCOW (Sputnik) — In October, it was revealed that Germany's BND intelligence agency had been spying on EU and US government agencies and embassies for years until the fall of 2013.
"It's important that we finally make the Chancellor's statement that 'spying between friends isn't on' a reality. That requires a clear legal boundary that we are about to achieve," Burkhard Lischka told the German RBB broadcaster.
The draft law stipulates intensified parliamentary supervision of BND activities by the so-called intelligence commissioner, a parliamentarian with special access to the information on the agency’s operations.
