More BamF

Even though it's a holiday in Germany....as Focus magazine reports this morning.....there's a fair amount of activity going on with the BamF 'scandal' episode (the immigration agency for Germany).  I've talked about this over the past two weeks in various essays.....but there's a couple of odd things which got thrown out there today.

First....the Interior Minister (Seehofter) put a major figure in the Interior Ministry who was a guy promoted into his position by the past Interior Minister....into forced retirement.  In recent months, this individual managed the BamF, and there is apparently a loss of confidence.  Little else is said.

Second, the government has admitted that roughly 54 million Euro was paid out to consulting firms over the past three years, and there's still two years to go before the contracts end.  The purpose of the consulting firms (Young and Kienbaum, and McKinsey)?  Well....a number of folks spoke up in 2015 and said that BamF was out of date and unable to speed up their process.  A fair number of the folks took this as an insult, and have been forced to accept some of the new practices.

Third, from the consulting action....it's said that thirty projects are underway, and involve 370 contractors. 

Fourth, there are accusations now that the contractors may have had sensitive information access, within the BamF database.  BamF bosses say no....anything that was classified as confidential or secret....was out of their reach.

So you come to the last piece of this 'thriller'....the CDU now says that to fix all the problems....they need to write/draft a law which imposes quality procedures and standards.  In simple words....whatever they write and pass...the BamF employees and the opposition folks....can't ever complain about again. 

The necessity of a standards-law?  This becomes a curious piece of legislation.  From 2013 to present....with zero leadership and marginal decision-making....they basically arrived at a point now where all the screw-ups of the past five years...need to be fixed. Confidence by the public?  That's the big question.