commando training that would have been helpful in planning and executing a hostage rescue raid like that. but german law said their military couldn t ever be used on german soil and the police just didn t have the capacity to do something like that properly. so after that, within less than a year after that disaster, germany invented for itself a new domestic elite police unit made up of civilian police officers but with lots of elite military gear and military-style training. that unit still exists today. they re called gsg-9. and that is the elite german force that to this day handles things like domestic counterterrorism operations and hostage rescue. the munich disaster was 1972. gsg-9 was created in response in 1973. 1973 is also when the fbi created its first formal s.w.a.t. team in this country. in the late 1960s, the early 1970s, the united states had faced our own spasm of domestic
wrong. the german military did have skilled snipers and the kind of commando training that would have been helpful in planning and executing a hostage rescue raid like that. but german law said their military couldn t ever be used on german soil and the police just didn t have the capacity to do something like that properly. so after that, within less than a year after that disaster, germany invented for itself a new domestic elite police unit made up of civilian police officers but with lots of elite military gear and military-style training. that unit still exists today. they re called gsg-9. and that is the elite german force that to this day handles things like domestic counterterrorism operations and hostage rescue. the munich disaster was 1972. gsg-9 was created in response in 1973. 1973 is also when the fbi created its first formal s.w.a.t. team in this country. in the late 1960s, the early
raid like that. but german law said their military couldn t ever be used on german soil and the police just didn t have the capacity to do something like that properly. so after that, within less than a year after that disaster, germany invented for itself a new domestic elite police unit made up of civilian police officers but with lots of elite military gear and military-style training. that unit still exists today. they re called gsg-9. and that is the elite german force that to this day handles things like domestic counterterrorism operations and hostage rescue. the munich disaster was 1972. gsg-9 was created in response in 1973. 1973 is also when the fbi created its first formal s.w.a.t. team in this country. in the late 1960s, the early 1970s, the united states had faced our own spasm of domestic terrorism, mostly from radical leftist groups and various separatist groups.
they called in the fbi field office in los angeles and asked them to please send over their tactical team to help. and it was that specialized unit, the fbi tactical team that took over that site, that conducted the search of that house, and indeed it was good it was them dealing with it because officials now say there really were 12 pipe bombs in that house as well as equipment and materials to make many, many more. a lot of the fbi s resources are located at their d.c. headquarters. the agency has flown in a special team from there to reconstruct crime scenes in san bernardino. they re sending evidence from the shooting to their washington laboratory by plane once or twice a day now. but one of the legacies of an earlier period of frequent terrorist violence in u.s. history and world history is that on wednesday night when local police in san bernardino basically ran out of resources they had at their disposal an fbi-trained elite equipped tactical team ready to go, ready to handle i
local police in san bernardino basically ran out of resources they had at their disposal an fbi-trained elite equipped tactical team ready to go, ready to handle it just a short drive away. law enforcement has a lot of capacity in this country. does law enforcement have the specific capabilities, the specific weapons and tactics that they need, particularly when it comes to preventing incidents like this, when it comes to stopping incidents like this before they happen, particularly when it seems like all the relevant contacts, all the relevant enlistment, these declarations of intent, they all now seem to happen online. joining us now is malcolm nance. he s a former u.s. counterterrorism and intelligence officer. now the executive director of the terror asymmetrics project. his next book is called defeating isis. malcolm, it s good to see you. thanks for being here. always good to see you, rachel. i understand you as part of your work are going to be training some domestic tacti