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 Canadian Security Intelligence Servicethe 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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