Ha'aretz: Israel reins in Shin Bet

Hakki Alacakaptan nucleus at superonline.com
Fri Nov 23 07:20:13 PST 2001


While the US and UK are passing laws to let their internal security services run amok, Israel decides to slap more controls on Shin Bet. Are they totally mashugga? Don't they know there's a war on?

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/objects/pages/PrintArticleEn.jhtml?itemNo= 97980 w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m

New Shin Bet law heads to Knesset

New legislation for reforms of the Shin Bet security service will be speeded up next week to get the law passed by the Knesset in the coming months.

The bill defines the objectives and role of the Shin Bet and tightens critical oversight of its operations by various mechanisms, including decentralized supervision, and establishing new Knesset and ministerial committees for Shin Bet affairs.

The law also proposes an external comptroller, and establishes a procedure for appointing the head of the Shin Bet. (...)

Hakki Alacakaptan



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