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Canadian Spy Agencies Deliberately Misled Courts

Walking The Walk writes "Canada's spy agency deliberately withheld information from the courts in an effort to do an end-run around the law when it applied for top-secret warrants to intercept the communications of Canadians abroad, a Federal Court judge said Friday. CSIS assured Judge Richard Mosley the intercepts would be carried out from inside Canada, and controlled by Canadian government personnel, court records show. However, Canadian officials then asked for intercept help from foreign intelligence allies without telling the court. 'It is clear that the exercise of the court's warrant issuing has been used as protective cover for activities that it has not authorized,' Mosley wrote in redacted reasons."

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  1. Re:Come on Canada by compro01 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Unless 10 or more Conservatives or the Harper-appointed Governor-General spontaneously develop consciences, the next election isn't going to be for almost 2 years.

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