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Article: Intelligence agencies more active in political espionage: Brajesh Mishra
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- The Hindustan Times
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- September 24, 2008
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New Delhi, Sept. 24 -- India's failure to check growing terrorist attacks is due to politicisation of intelligence agencies as well as poor policing, says former National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra. He also thinks POTA is "not the solution" to terrorism.
"The effectiveness of intelligence agencies has come down. Some of the intelligence agencies are more active spying what is happening in political parties than doing their work," Mishra told IANS in an interview.
"However, only intelligence agencies cannot be blamed. Bad policing is also one of the reasons which has led to failures in preventing terrorist attacks.
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