DISS suffers another credibility crisis

Besides, what was wrong with improving and strengthening the existing structures instead of forming a new one? Though the intelligence and security agency was established during the dying days of the Mogae administration, there was no doubt it was President Ian Khama's baby.

The Mogae administration was merely a surrogate mother.The bill establishing the agency rightly elicited heated debates in Parliament when initially presented. The proposed agency was a monster with draconian powers that makes it a law unto itself. It had no provision for oversight.