Germany Arrests a Former Head of Its Foreign Intelligence Service

Germany's federal prosecutor's office says a former head of the country's foreign intelligence service was arrested on suspicion that he passed state secrets to a foreign intelligence service, NPR reports.

The accusation as reported is a suspicion, not a finding; the prosecutor's office has made an arrest, not proved a case. The job attached to the accused is what gives the detail its weight. Running a foreign intelligence service is the post whose purpose is keeping exactly this kind of material out of someone else's hands.