Others include the state intelligence agency, the Bureau for National Investigation (BNI) and related agencies; judicial and penal services, that is, the Ghana Prisons Service and Judiciary Service; cabinet//Parliament; private sector and; civil society (including traditional authority and NGOs).
Rather it is the danger that South Africa's young institutions - the prosecuting authority, the state intelligence services, the public protector's office and so on - are being weakened by political forces anxious to protect individuals from legitimate scrutiny.
Instead, the report criticized what it called the pervasive influence of the country's military and intelligence authorities.
President Hugo Chávez fired his director of intelligence, Col. Miguel Rodríguez, days after a drug suspect sought by the American authorities escaped from the state intelligence headquarters.
Military and intelligence authorities were equally surprised.
"It's another major blow to the integrity of the web, only a month since Dutch certificate authority Diginotar was hacked, potentially compromising the security of websites belonging to the Dutch government, Google, Facebook and even state intelligence services".
The official said that American intelligence authorities had identified specific plotters, presumably through communications intercepts.
German intelligence authorities have said they regard Salafist institutions as a potential source of terrorism.
Turns out these guys worked for Iranian state intelligence.
That mission creep first led JIEDDO to view expansively its minimal intelligence authorities related to foreign IED threats.
