A federal watchdog agency says an active overseas clandestine spy service operation was abruptly halted by a top adviser to former prime minister Justin Trudeau, a decision it says needlessly put CSIS officers in danger.
In a report released Thursday, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, or NSIRA, said it had investigated a 2022 Canadian Security Intelligence Service operation that was suspended before later being authorized to proceed.
NSIRA said the national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister at the time stopped the “active operation,” a measure that “created unnecessary danger for the CSIS team,” according to its heavily redacted report.
The 43-page report from NSIRA, an independent body that oversees federal intelligence agencies, provides a rare glimpse inside the political oversight of intelligence operations.
Jody Thomas, a former deputy minister of national defence, was national security adviser in 2022.
NSIRA said the decision to halt the operation was not made by then-CSIS director David Vigneault, and there was no written record that then-public safety minister Marco Mendicino had stopped it. Those two would have been the only ones with statutory authority to approve, reject or halt operations. […]
Ms. Thomas told The Globe and Mail on Thursday that NSIRA had not reached out to get her side of what had transpired. She said she was asking questions about the operation on behalf of many parts of government, including the departments of Global Affairs and Public Safety.
She said she didn’t personally halt the operation.
Ok, this is just laugh out loud funny
H/T Andy Lee
No sympathy.
“NSIRA said the national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister at the time stopped the “active operation,”…
So is Jody Thomas under investigation for this? or Marco Mendacious?
Regarding that so-secret-we-don’t-even-know-what-it does-or-where-it-is-or-who-works-there agency, how do they make out their paychecks?
No paychecks necessary. They just go to the cashier and help themselves.
So many “helpers” yet none of them are able to tell the PMO that the Genocide of Residential Schools is a lie?
Why have any of these agencies,if we elect fools and bandits who cannot use the intelligence gathered on our behalf?
Looking to recent history,you have to ask..”Who is lying”?
Our progressive comrades insist it is not their leader.
The hordes of helpers are not helping any truth emerge..
Maybe the only rational conclusion is “They all suck”.
So lost in serving their own interests that those of the nation may as well not exist.
As if the interests of Canada ,as a nation, ever did exist in Ottawa’s eyes.
Western Separation will have one very real benefit..your ability to communicate with those who claim to “represent” you.
Meanwhile … here in the USA … we are canceling the ChiCom student Visas. Good luck with your ChiCom problem Canada.
Grok says…. (I say NISCOP)
The blacked-out acronym and definition between MD (Ministerial Direction) and NSIA (National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister) is redacted and cannot be definitively identified from the image alone. However, based on the context — a list of Canadian government security and intelligence-related acronyms — a likely candidate is:
NSE – National Security Establishment
or
NSC – National Security Council
Another strong possibility is:
NSICOP – National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians
NSICOP is a key Canadian oversight body related to intelligence and security, and it would logically fit in that list, especially since NSIRA (National Security and Intelligence Review Agency) is also listed.
An Acronym is an actual pronounceable word made from the first letters of the name of whatever organization.
That list is more of a list of abbreviations, not actual Acronyms.
Example: NATO, NASSA CSIS,
I thought “acronym” was the quality that makes acrobats nimble?
The Liberal racist Party of canada being controlled by the Communist Party of China cannot continue forever if the Americans continue to elect adults who are patriots. The US cannot allow that along their longest border.
After the fight for AB/Sask. separation wraps up, it’s going to be hilarious seeing what hapless tier 2 Canada has hidden behind their cloak of “most open gov’t ever” #Libranos.
Oh you thought burning barns in Quebec was outside the federal boundaries of “legal in Canada as long as it’s done to support the country” ?