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Siddiqui: Failed air security is but one of several fiascos
January 5, 2010 – 7:19 pm | No Comment
Siddiqui: Failed air security is but one of several fiascos

By Haroon Siddiqui
There’s a lot that remains unsaid despite all that has been said about the foiled terrorist attack on a Detroit-bound plane Christmas Day.
More than the experts, it’s the public that quickly caught on …

CSIS head complains terrorism suspects are akin to “folk heroes”
November 4, 2009 – 2:29 pm | No Comment
CSIS head complains terrorism suspects are akin to “folk heroes”

By COLIN FREEZE
Canadians are blind to the threat posed by terrorists who publicly espouse their rights while privately believing in nothing but “nihilism and death,” Canada’s new spy chief says.
“We have a serious blind spot …

Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases
October 27, 2009 – 9:51 am | No Comment
Britons Weary of Surveillance in Minor Cases

By SARAH LYALL
POOLE, England — It has become commonplace to call Britain a “surveillance society,” a place where security cameras lurk at every corner, giant databases keep track of intimate personal details and the government …

Judge orders CSIS to hand over file: Withholding a 2002 polygraph analysis in Mohamed Harkat case undermined integrity of the court, judge rules in latest blow to Canada’s spy agency
October 22, 2009 – 12:04 pm | No Comment
Judge orders CSIS to hand over file: Withholding a 2002 polygraph analysis in Mohamed Harkat case undermined integrity of the court, judge rules in latest blow to Canada’s spy agency

By Bill Curry
Ottawa — The Federal Court is ordering Canada’s spy agency to disclose a second human source in the Mohamed Harket case, an exceptional decision taken after finding the Canadian Security Intelligence Service “filtered” …

How to design a better anti-terrorism tool – With the security certificate system defunct, we need to focus more on our criminal law system
October 5, 2009 – 2:08 pm | No Comment
How to design a better anti-terrorism tool – With the security certificate system defunct, we need to focus more on our criminal law system

By Craig Forcese
The security certificate system as a tool of anti-terrorism is dead. Last week, the government abandoned its case against Adil Charkaoui, supposedly as a lesser evil to disclosing information it says would jeopardize …

Security Certificates – Five terror suspects: $60-million
October 3, 2009 – 12:04 pm | No Comment
Security Certificates – Five terror suspects: $60-million

Ottawa’s controversial security-certificate program to rid Canada of alleged spies came with a multimillion-dollar price tag

By Colin Freeze
From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

Ottawa has spent $60-million over the past two years in its failed …

Campaign in U.S against virtual strip search machines – Airport security bares all, or does it?
May 25, 2009 – 2:49 pm | One Comment
Campaign in U.S against virtual strip search machines – Airport security bares all, or does it?

By Jessica Ravitz
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — Privacy advocates plan to call on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to suspend use of “whole-body imaging,” the airport security technology that critics say performs “a …

Anti-terrorist security urged for PM’s residences
March 9, 2009 – 4:05 am | No Comment
Anti-terrorist security urged for PM’s residences

From Monday’s Globe and Mail
BILL CURRY

OTTAWA — It’s drafty and in desperate need of repair, but when Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his family move out of their 143-year-old official residence on Ottawa’s Sussex Drive …