Paranoia: Institutions Tasked and Csis

paranoia: But their voices are always discounted by systemic white supremacy and state security paranoia underlying weak-kneed institutions tasked with keeping a limited rein on CSIS. Indeed, parliamentary committees, review agencies, academic experts and the Federal Court have always provided CSIS with the tender care and benefit of the doubt more fitting to a senior trying to negotiate a crosswalk than an agency whose actions cause considerable harm and generate widespread fear, according to Rabble. But a starkly worded, formerly top secret decision released by Federal Court Judge Patrick Gleeson last week reveals that even the denizens of the nominally CSIS-rubber-stamping court have had enough with being lied to in secret warrant application hearings as part of investigations into Islamist Terrorism and OTHER ENTITIES AND NAMES REDACTED FOR REASONS OF NATIONAL SECURITY. In angry language, Gleeson attacked both the justice department and CSIS for a degree of institutional disregard for -- or, at the very least, a cavalier institutional approach to -- the duty of candour and regrettably the rule of law. Targeted communities -- Indigenous people, refugees and Muslims, to name only a few -- can testify to such illegality. The decision notes that CSIS -- in the name of fighting alleged terrorism -- has engaged in illegal activities, including provision of money and provision of personal property to a person known to be facilitating or carrying out terrorist activity. The latter phrase references the fact that CSIS lawyers lied in closed hearings, venues where they have an extra special duty of utmost good faith in the representations it makes to the court. Gleeson recommended that a comprehensive external review be initiated to fully identify systemic, governance and cultural shortcomings and failures that resulted in the Canadian Security Intelligence Service engaging in operational activity that it has conceded was illegal and the resultant breach of candour. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.