The report of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution of the federal state of Northrhine-Westfalia (NRW), one of Germany's 17 domestic intelligence services, describes efforts by the Iranian Mullah-regime to obtain technology necessary for the development of their ballistic missile programme. This blog post looks at findings of the remaining German domestic intelligence services.

Even his staunchest admirers must have noticed that ex-NSA employee Edward Snowden did not offer any technical expertise via his Twitter account on this week-ends spread of the WannaCry ransomware. »The true HOOHA« Snowden who lives since he fled his native USA for Moscow to live under the auspices of Russian domestic spy service FSB, fired one tweet after the other towards his former employer, the National Security Agency (NSA), in which he put the sole blame for this most recent ransomware incident on the NSA.

Jürgen Todenhöfer claims to have conducted an interview with an »al-Nusra commander«. His account of the events, as well as the interview itself pose questions that cast doubt on the authenticity of the interview.

In a piece for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung Friederike Haupt investigated the clandestine election campaign aid provided for the AfD party by an organisation called »Verein zur Erhaltung der Rechtsstaatlichkeit und bürgerlichen Freiheiten« (association for the preservation of rule of law and civil liberties). The organisation apparently has connections to the »Foundation for a Europe of Nations and Freedom«.