SIRC, CSIS and a proposal for parliamentary oversight
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Canada’s evolving no-fly list—and why changes to it were inevitable
Once reserved for “immediate” threats to airplanes, the country’s no-fly database is about to get much bigger
CSIS and torture
The spy agency says it will use evidence obtained via torture to protect public safety
CSIS and the NDS
The Security Intelligence Review Committee has released its review of how CSIS handled Afghan detainees and its relationship with Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security.
Here’s an idea
Sujit Choudhry, the esteemed University of Toronto professor of constitutional law, sends along the following. It likely would not wholly satisfy those who are intent on asserting the supremacy of Parliament, but there is plenty here worth considering, perhaps as something that might be part of a broader solution. SIRC is the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which you can read about here.
The feel good read of the summer
The Security Intelligence Review Committee released its report into CSIS’s handling of Omar Khadr last week, the full text is here. Strangely, despite the PMO’s assurances that the United States did not participate in torture and the Prime Minister’s findings that Khadr did not qualify as a child soldier, the SIRC seems rather preoccupied with issues of human rights, mistreatment and age.
Meanwhile, in another part of the macleans.ca liveblogosphere …
… I’ll be covering the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism from 1:30 til 3ish, so feel free to pop over if you have time to kill between reading Andrew Coyne’s almost-realtime dispatches from the floor of the BC Human Rights Tribunal.