A year ago last March, I took Vic Toews to task for granting CSIS the authority to trade in information derived from torture. In that post, I described a scenario in which the torture of one, possibily innocent, person of interest could easily lead to the torture of additional, possibly innocent, persons of interest. And all that could happen on the authority of the CSIS Director or a deputy minister and with no accountability.
It turns out that Toews didn’t dream up that policy all on his own.
Canada’s highly secretive electronic eavesdropping agency helped develop a federal directive that (Read more…)
