GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: CSIS watchdog cool to foreign spy service

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SOURCE: Calgary Herald

09February2011 8:54pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: OTTAWA – Canada does not need a foreign intelligence service like the CIA, says the head of the watchdog agency that oversees CSIS.

Dr. Arthur T. Porter says current intelligence-gathering by a handful of federal departments and agencies satisfies the government's appetite for made-in-Canada foreign intelligence.

"You have to recognize that (by spying) you are probably breaking somebody's law by just the definition of what you're doing," Porter said in his first interview since becoming chairman of the security intelligence review committee (SIRC) last summer.

"It's also incredibly expensive to set that sort of apparatus up. I'm just not sure that we're ready to go in that direction at this time." (read full report)

 

 

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GCIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING: GAO Report says Canadian border bigger threat

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SOURCE: NY Daily News

03February2011 12:42pmEST

GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: Worried about terrorists sneaking into the United States? You might want to look north.

It turns out that even as Mexico grapples with drug and gang violence, the U.S.-Canadian border poses a bigger terror risk, according to a new government report.

Just 32 of the 4,000 miles – less than 1% – along the northern border have an "acceptable level" of security, according to the Government Accountability Office report, released Tuesday.

Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) called the report "absolutely alarming" during a news conference on Capitol Hill.

He fears the northern border provides "easy passage into America by extremists, terrorists and criminals whose purpose it to harm the American people."  (read full NY Daily report)

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