Canadian Communications Security Admits Using False Flags

[Masato]

Hey all

This is interesting. Our man Dan Dicks has apparently found a blatant admission from a Canadian Government website that clearly states that they conduct regular cyber-false flags and a host of other deceptive online strategies to counter unwanted internet trends.

Check it out

[Luigi]

I dont care how much this helps anti-terrorism, its a thought control network that should be considered criminal. Id love to see a smaller political party vow to destroy and outlaw these programs and take a big piece of the votes, sadly that sort of thing doesnt tend to happen in Canada.

[greenseed]

especially with the nearly zero oversight:

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2015/04/01/canadian-spy-agencys-overseer-cant-really-oversee-documents.html

CSIS’s review body admits it can only review a “small number” of the spy agency’s actions each year, as the government continues to resist calls for oversight into Canada’s intelligence agencies.
The Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) warned that continued vacancies on the five-person board, the inability to investigate CSIS operations with other agencies, and delays in CSIS providing required information are “key risks” to its mandate.
“Currently, SIRC reviews still lack the ability to ‘follow the thread’ of a CSIS investigation if it involves another government department or agency,” the SIRC wrote in documents tabled in Parliament on Tuesday.
“SIRC’s effectiveness is dependent on (CSIS’s) timely provision of information. In those cases where there are delays in receiving information, SIRC is at risk of being unable to complete its reviews and investigations in a timely manner.”
SIRC is a five-person committee (currently with a compliment of four members) supported by 18 full-time staff and a budget of $2.87 million this year, according to the documents. CSIS, the sprawling agency the committee is mandated to review, has a budget of around $500 million a year.

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/depleted-spy-watchdog-sirc-scrambles-to-keep-up-with-csis

The weakened watchdog group overseeing Canada’s ever more powerful spy service says it is “struggling to operate efficiently” and falling behind at investigating complaints.

The five-seat Security Intelligence Review Committee, better known as SIRC, was established 30 years ago to assure Parliament the activities of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) are lawful, appropriate and effective.

But in a new 2013-14 performance report, SIRC raises doubts about its ability to properly execute some of those duties following a spate of resignations and retirements. That includes four chairs in less than three years and two current vacancies awaiting governor-in-council appointments.

“Committee appointments are of crucial importance to SIRC, we need to have five members,” Lindsay Jackson, SIRC’s assistant director of research, said Friday. “We must have the ability to keep pace with CSIS’s operational realities in order to provide effective review.”

Former permanent chairman Arthur Porter quit in 2012 amid controversy. He has since been fighting extradition to Canada from a Panamanian prison cell to face corruption-related charges in an alleged construction kickback scheme in Montreal.

Porter was briefly replaced by former Conservative MP and cabinet minister Carol Skelton, who handed the job to former Conservative cabinet minister Chuck Strahl in June 2012.

Stahl resigned in January over allegations his work as a lobbyist for pipeline giant Enbridge conflicted with his SIRC duties. He has been replaced by interim chair Deborah Grey, the former Reform MP.