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Information sharing
Partage de l'information
CSIS creates international forum to track extremists
The Canadian Press 05/04/2015 - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has set up a "multilateral forum of trusted partners" to share information on suspected extremists travelling abroad - a group that extends beyond its customary Five Eyes spy network, a newly released memo says. In the memo, CSIS Response: Addressing the Terrorist Travel Threat, Canada's spy agency also flags a concern about the challenges it faces in going further to build relationships with "non-traditional partners." The September CSIS memo evokes the kind of information sharing that led to the overseas torture of four Arab-Canadians following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, said Alex Neve, secretary general of Amnesty International Canada. [...] A heavily censored copy of the five-page, top-secret memo was obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act. A full page of proposals  "Under Development or Consideration" was withheld from release. [...] Sharing information with "non-traditional partners" substantially increases the risk of abuses, given the likelihood that many of those countries almost certainly have notorious human rights records, Mr. Neve said. Similarly, the reference to regular information exchanges in a multilateral forum of trusted partners "raises questions and concerns about what is being shared, about whom and with which countries," Mr. Neve said. Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian, was detained in New York in September, 2002, and deported soon after by U.S. authorities - and wound up in a Damascus prison. Under torture, he gave false confessions to Syrian military intelligence officers about involvement with al-Qaeda. A federal inquiry concluded that inaccurate information the RCMP passed to the United States very likely led to the Ottawa engineer's year-long nightmare.
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Rendition to torture
Renvoi vers la torture
CIA employees tried to stop arrest, torture of Maher Arar, former spy says
The Canadian Press 04/04/2015 - A former spy has described the debate within the CIA over the arrest, rendition and torture of Canadian Maher Arar, saying multiple colleagues warned against it because they were convinced they were punishing an innocent man. The account from former CIA officer John Kiriakou sheds new light on decade-old events that caused a public inquiry in Canada, a $10 million payout from the federal government, and unsuccessful lawsuits in the U.S. It's a rare peek into discussions within the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency - whose role in the 2002-03 events has never been publicly examined, having remained off-limits in Canada's inquiry. It came during an interview at the ex-spy's Virginia home, where he  described how he went from being the head of counterterrorism operations in Pakistan after 9-11, to becoming the first CIA employee to publicly question the use of torture, to eventually spending two years in jail for leaking agency secrets. During that interview, Kiriakou declined to discuss whether he'd interacted with Canada's spy services - because, he said, revealing details about a foreign partner remains a cardinal sin in the world of espionage. But he added: "We can talk about Maher Arar." Kiriakou expressed disgust with his country's role in sending the engineer to be tortured in his native Syria, and with its continuing failure to issue an apology like Canada has. He described a dynamic within the agency in which one mid-to-high-level officer ignored repeated objections from her subordinates, and insisted on pushing ahead. "I can tell you that a lot of people inside the CIA objected to this," Kiriakou said. "(They said), 'This is the wrong guy. He hasn't done anything.'"
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Surveillance des agences de sécurité
Oversight of security agencies
Andrew Mitrovica: Spies, lies and the myth of 'oversight' at CSISiPolitics 03/04/2015 - Lie, deny ... then act surprised if you get caught. Translate that into Latin and you'd have a pretty good unofficial motto for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. I learned that lesson from John Farrell - a former Toronto gang leader turned postal inspector, turned CSIS dirty-tricks operative - while writing a book about his long, eventful career inside the spy service. [...] While he worked side by side with senior CSIS officers in Toronto, Farrell was often ordered to lie, then deny, then act surprised. He wasn't alone, of course. He  saw CSIS officers doing the same thing all the time. Remember this when the Bill C-51 apologists in the media and academia, or Prime Minister Stephen Harper's blinkered minions, insist that since CSIS always plays by the rules, we don't have to be alarmed by all those new powers they're getting in Bill C-51 - powers that effectively make legal what under current law is very illegal. Think the current checks and balances are enough to keep CSIS honest? Let's get real. Farrell told me that many CSIS officers considered the spy service's review agency, the Security Intelligence Review Committee, little more than a nuisance. He informed me that seasoned CSIS officers often colluded to mislead SIRC's handful of raw, overworked and gullible "investigators." No one at CSIS worries that much about SIRC. They treat it like a visit to the dentist: a necessary nuisance, rarely painful. Read more - Lire plus Why we can't just trust CSIS to do the right thingJohn Kiriakou, CIA ex-spy, on Canada's intelligence safeguards: 'You're kidding me'U.S. - Lobbyists for spies appointed to oversee spyingIn new video, US Congressman explains why his fellow lawmakers couldn't be trusted with NSA oversight
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Surveillance globale
Mass surveillance
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Autres nouvelles - More news
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Press freedom
Liberté de la presse
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Action
Call your MP to stop Bill C-51!
LeadNow - Our MPs are about to vote on bill C-51. We need your urgent help to send a powerful message with 5,000 phone calls to their offices calling on them to stop C-51, and start over with a law that defends our security, privacy and freedom. 
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Action
Tell the U.S. government to free Slahi
ACLU - Tell the Secretary of Defense: Mohamedou Slahi is being held indefinitely despite his innocence. His ongoing imprisonment is unlawful, as was the torture he survived. I'm asking you not to contest Slahi's habeas case. Please release Mohamedou Slahi without delay.
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Humour
Two British "Psychics" Discuss Bill C-51... in 2009
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Ressource
Bill C-51: List of briefs presented to the Parliamentary Committee on National Security
The ICLMG has compiled a non-exhaustive list of briefs and speaking notes presented to the House of  Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security on Bill C-51. Consult them here
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Action
Join the Week of Education to Stop Secret Police Bill C-51
OpenMedia - The government is about to ram through a reckless, dangerous and ineffective "secret police" law called Bill C-51.  From April 13th to April 20th people across Canada will step up for a Week of Education to Stop C-51. Any activity that helps educate your fellow residents of Canada is welcome: Petitions, letter writing, social media outreach, marches, forums, flyering, canvassing etc.. Let's grow the numbers in opposition. Join the Thunderclap! 
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Action
UnfollowMe: Tell governments to ban mass surveillance
Amnesty International Canada - Governments are snooping on everything we do online. State intelligence and security agencies are using mass surveillance to collect our private emails, calls, internet searches, contact lists, phone locations, webcam images and more.  Sign our petition today, and call on Canada, the USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand - to end indiscriminate mass surveillance today.
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Action
Signez la pétition pour libérer le blogueur saoudien Raif Badawi
 Amnistie internationale - Raif Badawi, prisonnier d'opinion en Arabie saoudite, risque la mort pour avoir offert un débat sur la liberté religieuse. Exigeons des autorités saoudiennes que les coups de fouet cessent immédiatement, que Raif soit libéré sans condition, et qu'il soit réuni avec sa famille réfugiée au Canada. Exigeons de cet État qu'il respecte ses obligations en matière de droits humains et qu'il abolisse la flagellation. English petition
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Les opinions exprimées ne reflètent pas nécessairement les positions de la CSILC - The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the positions of ICLMG
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The News Digest is ICLMG's weekly publication of news articles, events, calls to action and much more regarding national security, anti-terrorism, and civil liberties. The ICLMG is a national coalition of thirty-eight Canadian civil society organizations that was established in the aftermath of the September, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States. +++
La revue de l'actualité est notre publication hebdomadaire de nouvelles, d'évènements, d'appels à l'action, et beaucoup plus, entourant la sécurité nationale, la lutte au terrorisme, et les libertés civiles. La CSILC est une coalition nationale de 38 organisations de la société civile canadienne qui a été créée suite aux attentats terroristes de septembre 2001 aux États-Unis.
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The security and human rights of indigenous peoples have been, and continue to be, severely impacted by non-indigenous governments and other third parties. A non-discriminatory approach would require that the "security of Canada" be inclusive of all peoples, including indigenous peoples. Security is a human right. This right of indigenous peoples includes: environmental security; food security; economic security; social security; cultural security; human security; and territorial security. The 2003 Declaration on Security in the Americas affirms: "the traditional concept and approach must be expanded to encompass new and non-traditional threats, which include political, economic, social, health, and environmental aspects."
the records to help rule out foreign ties to the bombing in 1995 of a federal building in Oklahoma City and to identify U.S. suspects in a wide range of other investigations. The Justice Department revealed in January that the DEA had collected data about calls to "designated foreign countries." But the history and vast scale of that operation have not been disclosed until now. The now-discontinued operation, carried out by the DEA's intelligence arm, was the government's first known effort to gather data on Americans in bulk, sweeping up records of telephone calls made by millions of U.S. citizens regardless of whether they were suspected of a crime. It was a model for the massive phone surveillance system the NSA launched to identify terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks. That dragnet drew sharp criticism that the government had intruded too deeply into Americans' privacy after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked it to the news media two years ago. More than a dozen current and former law enforcement and intelligence officials described the details of the Justice Department operation to USA TODAY. Most did so on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the intelligence program, part of which remains classified.
