CSIS & CSE

Snoop and spy is already here, thanks to Liberals

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Andrew Mitrovica – February 17, 2012

By any political measure it has been a pitiful and, to some extent, humbling week for the beleaguered Vic Toews.

The public safety minister has earned the justifiable wrath of frothing opposition members, a bevy of pundits of various political pedigrees, and, decidedly more mutedly, even his caucus colleagues, for his bellicose championing of the so-called “protecting children from Internet predators act.”

Experts say spy case could be damaging

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Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill – January 17, 2012

The Harper government hunkered down Tuesday in an attempt to weather an unfolding spy drama involving a naval officer who worked at one of the most sensitive and secure military intelligence centres in the country.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Defence Minister Peter MacKay, the military and the RCMP turned aside questions on the case of Sub.-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, who's charged with communicating information to a foreign entity.

Canada’s top spy watchdog resigns following revelations

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Kathryn Blaze Carlson and Brian Hutchinson – November 10, 2011

Arthur Porter, the chair of Canada’s spy review board, resigned on Thursday amid revelations of his business dealings with a notorious international lobbyist and his own close ties to the president of Sierra Leone.

“Dr. Porter has submitted his resignation to me, and I have accepted it, effective immediately,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper said in a statement on Thursday afternoon.

Spy review board chief offered me job: Senator

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Brian Hutchinson – November 8, 2011

The federally appointed chairman of Canada’s spy review board and “Ambassador Plenipotentiary” to his native Sierra Leone offered a Canadian senator the position of honorary consul general to the African country, the National Post has learned.

Arthur Porter, a Montreal-based physician who also serves as the chief of executive of the McGill University Health Centre (MUHC), one of Canada’s largest public health-care providers with almost 12,000 employees, approached Conservative Senator David Angus and asked if he “would ever be interested” in the position as consul general to Sierra Leone in Montreal.

Canada’s spy watchdog’s questionable $200,000 deal

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Brian Hutchinson – November 8, 2011

The head of Canada’s spy review board wired $200,000 in personal funds to a notorious international lobbyist in a questionable aid-for-infrastructure deal in Africa, the National Post has learned.

Arthur Porter, the federally appointed chairman of Canada’s Security and Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), described in three interviews how he directed cash from a foreign bank account to Ari Ben-Menashe, a jet-setting, Montreal-based businessman who often acts as a middleman in negotiations between the Russian Federation and developing countries.

National Security Whistleblowers

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June 16, 2011

Canadian security agents have come forward in the past in hope of exposing significant wrongdoing.

The Unknown Soldier

A Joint Task Force 2 soldier raised allegations in 2006 that Canada's most elite unit may have been complicit in war crimes in Afghanistan. The complaint, never verified, has led to a sweeping and ultra-secretive internal military probe known as Operation Sand Trap. The soldier, whose identity has never been revealed, no longer serves with JTF2.

For soldiers and spies, whistle-blowing remains a risky business

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Colin Freeze – June 15, 2011

Five years after Parliament ordered federal departments to protect whistle-blowers “as soon as possible,” soldiers and spies still lack crucial protections that would allow them to highlight wrongdoing without risk to their careers.

When Canada’s security agencies were broadly exempted from a 2006 law to protect whistle-blowers within the federal bureaucracy, they were directed to come up with parallel systems. The ones that have been put in place have been lagging or found lacking – the military, for example, has never followed up on a directive to designate a senior official to be a sounding board for soldiers.

CSIS adds its own mole to terror list

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Mubin Shaikh

Thomas Walkom – May 19, 2011

Talk about nuts. We know that our security services are still passing on to Washington the names of Canadian citizens alleged to be terrorists — with or without proof.

But it also seems that the Canadian Security Intelligence Service has mistakenly added one of its own moles to the growing U.S. terror list. This bizarre revelation comes courtesy of the muckraking website WikiLeaks, which — as first reported by CBC — has revealed a new cache of confidential U.S. State Department documents.

Key CSIS, RCMP operative denounced to U.S.: WikiLeaks

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Mubin Shaikh

Crown’s star witness in Toronto 18 trial named to U.S. as conspirator

Neil Macdonald – May 19, 2011

Mubin Shaikh stared at his own name on the neat, impersonal column of names, birthdates and birthplaces on the secret American cable and blinked. Hard.

"My life is screwed forever," he said. "That's pretty much what it means. That means my life, my children, my family members. They're all screwed."

Grounding of Air India bombing recommendations disappoints inquiry head

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Justice John Major

Jim Bronskill – March 2, 2011

OTTAWA — The judge who led an exhaustive inquiry into the 1985 Air India bombing is puzzled and disappointed the federal government has shunted aside his key recommendations.

Former Supreme Court Justice John Major says he sees little substance in the recent federal response to his five-volume report on the terrorist attack that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.

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