BIN there, Done that

The intelligence service wants to be allowed to set its own limits to power. If this is allowed, authoritarianism is sure to return.

March 4, 2003

NEVER allow the intelligence service to arrest suspects. If they are allowed to do so, it will be too easy for abuses of power to take place. The role of the police will be undermined, and criminal law sidelined. Nevertheless, this hasn't been enough to stop the State Intelligence Agency (BIN) from proposing to the House of Representatives (DPR) special committee deliberating the Antiterrorism Bill that it be allowed to arrest and interrogate

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