India’s intelligence services simply won’t — at least in their present form— survive the Ishrat Jahan Raza murder investigation. Ever since their inception, the Intelligence Bureau and its sister-services have functioned without any legal mandate. This means authorisation for anything they do. Every time an intelligence officer initiates a covert operation, launches agents across the border or engages in the lethal deceptions that constitute the warp and weft of spycraft, she or he breaks the law and violates the constitution. It’s worked because of an unwritten consensus that has historically cut across political parties. Last week, it all fell apart.
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 10:48:03 +0000
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