In my view intelligence analysis is not a sexy or scandalous enough subject to invoke any serious interest amongst Canadian politicians or our media–unless we have our 9/11. But a former anal…
Source: Mark Collins – Anyone Care about Canadian Intelligence Analysis? Plus C-22 and Parliamentary Review
The civil liberties sky has not fallen–and surely will not under the Liberal government: John Ivison: Fear of oppressive surveillance by spy agencies under Tories’ anti-terror legislation unf…
Source: Mark Collins – Counter-Terrorism: CSIS’ New C-51 Powers Not So Threatening in Practice
Further to this post, Under His Thumb? Proposed Canadian Parliamentary Security/Intel Review Committee The prime minister’s thumb it appears… it looks like the Library of Parliament agrees wi…
Source: Mark Collins – Under PM’s Thumb: Proposed Canadian Parliamentary Security/Intel Review Committee
A paper very much worth the read by Prof. Craig Forcese of the University of Ottawa–it includes an interesting discussion of CSIS’ legislatively clarified and expanded mandate to operat…
Further to 2) at this post before the Dhaka massacre, Islamist Butchery in Bangladesh–With a Canadian ISIS Connection more background on the local ISIS leader, a Canadian, just killed in Bangladesh…
Source: Mark Collins – A Canadian, ISIS, Bangladesh and Terror…and Earlier Calgary
Here’s the “Executive Summary” from this year’s report: … Threat Environment The principal terrorist threat to Canada remains that posed by violent extremists who coul…
Source: Mark Collins – “2016 Public Report On The Terrorist Threat To Canada”
A theme I have been stressing for quite some time–further to these posts, Time For Canadian Government to Get Really Cyber Serious–But It’s Not Offensive Cyber Capability for Canadian Forces?…
Source: Mark Collins – Canada: “Time to get serious about cyber security”
The start of a major article by a real Canadian expert (more here) on Islamist radicalization who knew the young man quite well: What Aaron told me: An expert on extremism shares his conversations …
Source: Mark Collins – The Life and Mind of Dead Canadian ISIS Jihadi Aaron Driver
Two tweets: 1) 2) One hopes Canadian authorities, such as the RCMP and CSIS, are following up assiduously on any possible Canadian angle to the horrific attack. Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blo…
Source: Mark Collins – ISIS Massacre in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Possible Canadian Link?
The prime minister’s thumb it appears, with a committee much modeled on the British equivalent. No doubt in the hope of reassuring nervous Five Eyes SIGINT allies and, more broadly, those for…
Source: Mark Collins – Under His Thumb? Proposed Canadian Parliamentary Security/Intel Review Committee
