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Thoughts on the Future of Intelligence Accountability in Canada
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- June 29, 2012
The decision of the Harper government to close the Office of the Inspector General of CSIS and end its 28-year history opens a new and challenging chapter for the process of keeping watch over the Canadian security and intelligence community. It’s hard to be optimistic that this change will be for the better. The Government
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Eliminating Accountability and Masking the Intent at CSIS
- Analysis
- June 26, 2012
In the early 1970’s, the Director of the CIA used to tell fellow Americans, “trust us”. That turned out to be bad advice – bad for the CIA and bad for the reputation of a country ostensibly dedicated to the rule of law. It’s only prudent, therefore, to ask how the Canadian Security and Intelligence
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Europe’s Alleged ‘Failure’, Harper’s Certain Gain
- Analysis
- June 21, 2012
Prime Minister Harper’s pointed criticism of the dithering of European leaders at the G20 summit over the weekend was widely reported, and so too the angry riposte it received from EU Commission President Manuel Barroso. But too few sought to look deeper and ask what was really at work—for the Prime Minister must know that
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The Engaged Academic: Why the Old Ivory Tower Won’t Stand
- Analysis
- June 20, 2012
The latest issue of the journal Perspectives on Politics, published by Cambridge University Press, includes an important article by Lisa Anderson, an American political scientist who is currently president of the American University in Cairo. Anderson argues that new information technologies are transforming the relationship between universities and their surrounding societies. The “availability of information
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