NY Times:
Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, temporarily halted some cooperation with the agency’s counterpart in Canada this month after the nation’s public broadcaster reminded its journalists of a longstanding policy not to refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as “terrorism” without attribution to experts, according to multiple officials with knowledge of the event.
The extraordinary move to punish the Royal Canadian Mounted Police appears to have been short-lived, and it was specific to the F.B.I. Other parts of the U.S. government involved in intelligence-sharing continued with their operations. And not every element of cooperation between the F.B.I. and the mounted police was halted, according to the officials with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive law enforcement dynamics.
Still, the abrupt move by Mr. Patel risked disrupting F.B.I. operations with Canada and jeopardizing the organization’s relationship with Canada’s national law enforcement agency, which works closely with the bureau on a wide range of issues, including terrorism and cybersecurity cases.
…F.B.I. officials cancelled meetings with their Canadian counterparts during the halt in cooperation, saying they would be out of touch for some time, leading to a chilling between the two agencies…
Read more about Patel’s knee jerk reaction at the NY Times. The article is also archived.
Elsewhere: CBC News: RCMP says relationships with allies ‘strong’ after report FBI stopped co-operation following CBC 9/11 memo