Articles tagged with: CSIS
By Faisal Kutty
The long awaited report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 is finally out today.
Confirming what many security experts have believed …
By Ian MacLeod
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By Janice Tibbetts
OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency says increased court scrutiny of its intelligence-gathering poses a challenge and has caused some soul-searching on how to adapt to the new legal order while still protecting secret …
By Gerald Caplan
For Montrealer Abousfian Abdelrazik, the nightmare continues. Maybe readers will have forgotten his name already. I’ve written about his ordeal several times and a small dedicated group of his fellow …
By Andrew Duffy
OTTAWA — A U.S. historian who specializes in the war on terror has urged the judge in the Mohamed Harkat case to carefully distinguish between jihadists and terrorists.
Professor Brian Williams, associate Professor of …
By Murray Brewster and Jim Bronskill
Officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service have played a crucial and long-standing role as interrogators of a vast swath of captured Taliban fighters, The Canadian Press has learned.
The spies …
OTTAWA – Canadian intelligence agents went to Egypt to get information about a Toronto man and likely contributed to his abuse by authorities there, newly released documents say.
The previously unknown visit by CSIS officers became …
From CBC News
Canada’s spy agency is pulling out all the stops to block the release of decades-old intelligence on socialist icon Tommy Douglas.
In an affidavit filed in Federal Court, the Canadian Security Intelligence …
By Louisa Taylor
It was the moment he and three friends had driven almost 1,000 kilometres to see.
Ahmed, a young Canadian born in Somalia and raised in Ottawa, watched intently as Barack Hussein Obama raised his …
From The Canadian Press
Transport Canada should carry out a sweeping review of its no-fly list, say independent consultants hired by the department who found a Montreal-area student should never have been barred from an Air …
By Edward Alden
Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.
Earlier …
If you don’t have the opportunity to read the Federal Court ruling (which is really worth reading), you might be interested by this summary analysis prepared by Matthew Behrens.
The link to the actual …
By JIM BRONSKILL and SUE BAILEY
OTTAWA — The federal government has launched a sweeping review of a crumbling anti-terrorist law, acknowledging the system needs fixing, The Canadian Press has learned.
“We are working on it …
A decision was issued this morning by the Honourable Richard Mosley of the Federal Court in file DES-3-08:
IN THE MATTER OF Hassan Almrei
Summary: On February 22, 2008, the Minister of Public Safety and …
