This does need to be discussed, as calmer heads in security agencies now recognise.
They included Asef Shawkat, who was the president's brother-in-law and one of the most feared man in Damascus for his long tenure as the head of various security agencies.
He entered public life as an aggressive young member of the Communist Party and rose while still in his 30's to head the internal security agencies in Soviet Georgia -- a job only a tough character could handle.
In fact, the heads of several security agencies, including the FBI, CIA, the director of national intelligence and the attorney general objected to the legislation.
This is because of the third factor that is worrying the heads of Western security agencies; the increasing difficulty they say they have in monitoring the communications within terrorist networks.
A sticking point may have been a proposal, which was rejected, that Mr Kurnaz should be used in Germany to inform on Islamist extremists.The case was handled in Berlin at regular meetings of the Präsidentenlage, a council comprising top foreign, interior and justice ministry officials and the heads of three security agencies; it was often chaired by Mr Steinmeier.
The president and the prime minister jointly appoint heads of the security agencies, and the president may attend cabinet meetings, taking part in discussions held at such meetings.
On January 26th , 2016 Akbar Hussain Durrani, Balochistan's Secretary Home, sent a notification to heads of several security agencies and top local officials telling them he was "pleased" to list the name of Ali Raza Rind, whom Secretary Durrani listed as an 'activist' of the Baloch Liberation Army BLAa), a separatist insurgent group that has been banned by the Pakistani government.
Soon after Oldfield got to work, quietly banging together the heads of the different security agencies, a rumour spread that he had spent an afternoon in a pub on the outskirts of Belfast, followed a man into the toilets and propositioned him for sex.
The heads of the various security agencies have been summoned to appear before the parliamentary defence committee on Monday, amid rising concern over the authorities' preparedness for such an attack.
