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Oversight of security agencies
RCMP accountability bill clears Commons hurdle
The Ottawa Citizen 07/03/2013 - A Conservative bill aimed at improving the RCMP's internal disciplinary and grievance processes following complaints of harassment and gender disparities  in the workforce appears on track to become law after clearing the House of Commons on Wednesday. The Conservatives used their majority to pass Bill C-42, the Enhancing Royal Canadian Mounted Police Accountability Act, along with support from the Liberals. The NDP voted against the proposed law. The bill will now be sent to the Senate, where Conservatives also have a majority. NDP public safety critic Randall Garrison has said it does little to address workplace harassment and argues the new civilian review commission isn't exactly "independent" since it will still report to the public safety minister.Read moreSpy watchdog SIRC seems strangely uninterested in Galati and Porter casesArthur Porter gave money to federal Conservatives while heading spy watchdog
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Iraq: 10 years later
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Torture
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War on terror
Officials: Bin Laden spokesman and son-in-law caught in Jordan by US
The Ottawa Citizen 07/03/2013 - Osama bin Laden's spokesman and son-in-law has been captured by the United States, officials said Thursday, in what a senior congressman  called a "very significant victory" in the fight against al-Qaida. Al-Qaida propagandist Sulaiman Abu Ghaith is expected to be in U.S. federal court in New York on Friday in an initial hearing to face terror charges, according to a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. The trial will make one of the relatively few prosecutions of senior al-Qaida leaders on U.S. soil.
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Rule of law
Revealed: British citizens stripped of status then targeted for killing
Common Dreams 28/02/2013 - The British government has secretly been stripping citizenship status from British nationals it suspects of terrorism, some of whom were later targeted and killed by drone attacks abroad. According to an report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and published in the UK's Independent on Thursday, the investigation "has established that since 2010, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, has revoked the passports of 16 individuals, many of whom are alleged to have had links to militant or terrorist groups." Subsequently, at least two of these individuals were targeted and then killed in Somalia by missiles fired from US drones.
'Mockery' of transparency continues as White House releases additional 'kill list' memos to Senate Committee
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Anti-terror laws
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Aviation security
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Border security
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Criminalization of dissent
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Freedom of information
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Guantanamo
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Immigration and refugee rights
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Rule of law
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State secrets
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Surveillance and privacy
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War in Mali
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War on terror
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Miscellaneous
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About us
The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-nine Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. You will find in this News Digest news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, civil liberties and other issues related to the mandate and concerns of ICLMG and its member organizations. 
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Take action
Donate to the legal fund for Mohamed Mahjoub
The security certificate process was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada in the 2007 Charkaoui ruling. A new certificate was issued against Mr. Mahjoub in February 2008 under this new process and he was forced to begin the process all over again. The Federal Court has not yet ruled on the 'reasonability' of the new certificate against him. In the context of these new security certificate proceedings, Mr. Mahjoub was subject to an unprecedented violation of his rights. The present fund-raising initiative is aimed at obtaining a permanent stay of the unfair proceedings against him in light of this unprecedented violation.
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Book review
National Insecurity: The Cost of American Militarism
 By Melvin A. Goodman. "Mel Goodman has spent the last few decades telling us what's gone wrong with American intelligence and the American military, and now, in National Insecurity, he tells us what we must do to change the way the system works, and how to fix it," says Seymour Hersh in The New Yorker. A veteran of the intelligence services, including twenty four years at the CIA, Goodman offers an informed insight into how a bloated military actually endangers the United States.
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Take action
"Hundred for Hassan" Campaign
Hassan will be put in prison if he does not pay his "creditor" - in this case, the Canadian government - $2,000 per month for the cost of his own surveillance. We invite you to be one of 100 people who care about due process and the presumption of innocence and oppose abusive extradition proceedings, by pledging $20 per month or more to share the cost of Dr. Diab's oppressive burden. This is our way of taking a public stand and saying, "This is just wrong."
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minds, a unique view of its success or failure, distorted by time and muddied by our unreliable memories. We can ask ourselves: Was that invasion 10 years ago this month worth it? But the answer isn't obvious. The world disagrees on the Iraq war because, unlike those who have lived there during this past decade, we only selectively tuned in to parts of it.
veteran of American proxy wars in El Salvador and Nicaragua, played a key role in training and overseeing US-funded special police commandos who ran a network of torture centres in Iraq. Another special forces veteran, Colonel James Coffman, worked with Steele and reported directly to General David Petraeus, who had been sent into Iraq to organise the Iraqi security services.
