New intelligence technology feeding surge in political espionage
Large part of Intelligence Bureau remains deployed on political tasks, not national security duties
Early this summer, India's intelligence services were facing the most serious internal security threats since 26/11: new urban terror cells, on which there was little information, were known to be planning strikes; Maoist insurgents had expanded their reach and lethality to unprecedented levels; Pakistan's descent into chaos had threatened renewed violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
Few people at the North Block headquarters of India's domestic intelligence service, the Intelligence Bureau, cared: dealing with these national problems, strange as it might sound, isn't their job.
Instead, highly placed intelligence sources have told The Hindu, a large part of the IB's resources were committed, and remain committed, to providing the government raw information and assessments on its increasingly bleak political prospects. In the summer, the IB carefully monitored Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's public meetings in Uttar Pradesh after the events at Bhatta Parsaul; later it sought to penetrate Anna Hazare's anti-corruption mobilisation in New Delhi.
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2687373.ece?homepage=true
Some of the comments :
It's this kind of activities that keep congress in govt forever. India needs structural reforms and unless that happens..we r just going to suffer at hand of terrorist and terrorist politicians ...
This should come as no surprise, anyone in India will get investigated by CBI and other central agencies as soon as they raise a voice against the government, take the example of Andhra Pradesh Ex-CM YSR Son, Jagan Reddy. Everyone knew that he has amassed huge wealth during his father's tenure, but strangely enforcement agencies looked the other way for almost 5 years, as soon as he revolted against the congress central command 15 teams of CBI raided his homes and offices, same story goes for Anna team members, Arvind Kejarwal, Kiran Bedi and even Anna Hazare. No Wonder we were left gaping when terrorists struck our country with ease. Even our external intelligence agency RAW's head is appointed by the PMO, and from the story it is clear that RAW and IB have become tools of supresssion like the CBI. The Hindu ran a story recently on how Col Gaddafi suppressed opposition in his country, his ways might have been brutal but the present Indian government's and Gaddafi's goals were the same.
This has all the makings of a dictatorship in the guise of a democracy.
I still remember Mr. P Chidambaram's saying that "No intelligence is not intelligence failure" in the aftermath of 26/ 11 attacks. I now realise what he was trying to cover up. Great article. Makes one ponder over how the critical national agencies are abused by ruling parties.
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