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The government of Germany. The BND had surveillance operations that ran counter to the constitution (again). One of their excuse was the mentioned position. It became known as their space theory (freely translated from "Weltraumtheorie") in that context.

A plain example why you need to grab these institutions by the balls with tight restrictions or they run amok. They had the idea for their "space theory" from the NSA, allegedly, but I never heard of anything like this. Perhaps their American colleagues thought it to be too embarrassing to bring forward.

I would have difficulties to find examples from recent years when the constitutions was undermined that effectively. How should I convince anyone that it isn't a complete joke?