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More, much more news to come, little doubt about that. This is the stuff that spy thrillers are made of. Fascinating and distressing to no little degree at one and the same time. Someone among us, a security intelligence officer trained and trusted, privy to state secrets and documents posing as a proud Canadian, but not too proud, evidently, to share items of intelligence meant to be preserved for Canadian eyes only at the elite intelligence level.
To whom? Well, it has been said that Canada harbours many pieces of data that those who consider themselves enemies of democracy would appreciate having at their fingertips. Just to be advised. To be forewarned. To enable them to take advantage of opportunities to disrupt plans for security. To deduce from what is reported how much is known about their own secrets. To discover who is vulnerable and what may be done to capitalize on that.
Even to discommode those whose intelligence is being dissected, by the certainty that it has been disseminated to sources that should not under any circumstances whatever have knowledge of them. China, perhaps, or even Iran? The former because it is curious about everything and would like to have its finger on as much global data as it can manage by any means possible. The latter because of its truly bitterly malign mission in contempt of any values not integral to Islamism.
And then of course there is always Russia, whose immense traditional reputation for state skulduggery has been well earned. Russian scientists and mariners have proven to be highly amenable to sharing experiences and assistance with their Western counterparts. For in these disciplines there is much in common, and there is a culture of internationalism; in medical and other scientific disciplines, and space exploration, for example.
Even using their icebreakers to deliver emergency rations to isolated Canadian northern outposts. But at the political, at the military level, there is disquietude, and an atmosphere of alert challenge. It is not merely Canadian-centred data, but data and intelligence that Canada shares with its trusted allies that is vulnerable to being discreetly exchanged by those rare creatures who have access to them and whose scruples have been breached.
A navy intelligence officer, charged with communicating information that has the potential to possibly "increase the capacity of a foreign entity or a terrorist group to harm Canadian interests". And, of course, by extension cast Canada into a framework of distrust by its close and mutually-interested security partners. If Canada cannot be trusted to be sufficiently alert to the presence of traitors in its midst...
According to court documents, Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, is charged with having communicated "to a foreign entity information that the Government of Canada is taking measures to safeguard". And for that collapse in trust of a Canadian military professional whose elite level of access to such documents, has earned the man the distinction of representing the first person charged under Canada's post-90/11 secrets law.
His is not a pretty place to be in. The whys and wherefores will eventually, to a intelligence-safe degree, be revealed. Yet, perhaps not the extent, the value and the nature of the information divulged, nor to whom, precisely.
To whom? Well, it has been said that Canada harbours many pieces of data that those who consider themselves enemies of democracy would appreciate having at their fingertips. Just to be advised. To be forewarned. To enable them to take advantage of opportunities to disrupt plans for security. To deduce from what is reported how much is known about their own secrets. To discover who is vulnerable and what may be done to capitalize on that.
Even to discommode those whose intelligence is being dissected, by the certainty that it has been disseminated to sources that should not under any circumstances whatever have knowledge of them. China, perhaps, or even Iran? The former because it is curious about everything and would like to have its finger on as much global data as it can manage by any means possible. The latter because of its truly bitterly malign mission in contempt of any values not integral to Islamism.
And then of course there is always Russia, whose immense traditional reputation for state skulduggery has been well earned. Russian scientists and mariners have proven to be highly amenable to sharing experiences and assistance with their Western counterparts. For in these disciplines there is much in common, and there is a culture of internationalism; in medical and other scientific disciplines, and space exploration, for example.
Even using their icebreakers to deliver emergency rations to isolated Canadian northern outposts. But at the political, at the military level, there is disquietude, and an atmosphere of alert challenge. It is not merely Canadian-centred data, but data and intelligence that Canada shares with its trusted allies that is vulnerable to being discreetly exchanged by those rare creatures who have access to them and whose scruples have been breached.
A navy intelligence officer, charged with communicating information that has the potential to possibly "increase the capacity of a foreign entity or a terrorist group to harm Canadian interests". And, of course, by extension cast Canada into a framework of distrust by its close and mutually-interested security partners. If Canada cannot be trusted to be sufficiently alert to the presence of traitors in its midst...
According to court documents, Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle, is charged with having communicated "to a foreign entity information that the Government of Canada is taking measures to safeguard". And for that collapse in trust of a Canadian military professional whose elite level of access to such documents, has earned the man the distinction of representing the first person charged under Canada's post-90/11 secrets law.
His is not a pretty place to be in. The whys and wherefores will eventually, to a intelligence-safe degree, be revealed. Yet, perhaps not the extent, the value and the nature of the information divulged, nor to whom, precisely.
Labels: Conflict, Crisis Politics, Government of Canada
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