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SIRC, CSIS and a proposal for parliamentary oversight

Once reserved for “immediate” threats to airplanes, the country’s no-fly database is about to get much bigger

The spy agency says it will use evidence obtained via torture to protect public safety

The Security Intelligence Review Committee has released its review of how CSIS handled Afghan detainees and its relationship with Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security.

Sujit Choudhry, the esteemed University of Toronto professor of constitutional law, sends along the following. It likely would not wholly satisfy those who are intent on asserting the supremacy of Parliament, but there is plenty here worth considering, perhaps as something that might be part of a broader solution. SIRC is the Security Intelligence Review Committee, which you can read about here.

The Security Intelligence Review Committee released its report into CSIS’s handling of Omar Khadr last week, the full text is here. Strangely, despite the PMO’s assurances that the United States did not participate in torture and the Prime Minister’s findings that Khadr did not qualify as a child soldier, the SIRC seems rather preoccupied with issues of human rights, mistreatment and age.

… I’ll be covering the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism from 1:30 til 3ish, so feel free to pop over if you have time to kill between reading Andrew Coyne’s almost-realtime dispatches from the floor of the BC Human Rights Tribunal.