Domestic intel

The FBI and NYPD make peace, focusing on fighting terrorism and not each other

In the long, bitter and testosterone-rich rivalry between the New York Police Department and the FBI, few things aggravated the G-men more than the repeated towing of their cars by the local cops. And the practice was one of the first things that NYPD Commissioner William J. Bratton banned when he took over in late 2013 and tried to defuse tensions with his most important counterterrorism partner.

Relations between the NYPD and the FBI, never warm, deteriorated sharply after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks when the country’s largest police force transformed its intelligence division and expanded its counterterrorism work well beyond the city limits, brushing up against the bureau’s prerogatives.

Domestic intel

German Domestic Intel to Keep Closer Tabs on Its Sources

Germany's domestic intelligence service said Monday it has compiled a single list of its sources among extremist groups, fulfilling a key demand from lawmakers investigating the agency's failure to crack down on a far-right terror group.

The group, calling itself National Socialist Underground, or NSU, is suspected of killing eight Turkish men, a Greek and a policewoman, and carrying out two bombings between 2000 and 2007. Revelations that several security agencies had sources close to the group but failed to stop it caused national uproar after its existence was uncovered in late 2011.

The new list would provide the country's domestic intelligence service with "a comprehensive insight into the country-wide access to all areas of extremism," said its head, Hans-Georg Maassen.