Showing posts with label Corruption. Show all posts
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Monday, January 9, 2017

RCMP: Transfer of Resources Away From Organized Crime into Watching Terrorists?

If you read my past posts located here, here and here --- you will understand the articles linked below. They are transferring resources and manpower in the RCMP away from organized crime and into focusing on "terrorists." 

They are also considering people like this terrorists nowThis is no different than what is happening in the United States under the Homeland Security laws. See here for how the FBI memo labels patriots, Truth-seekers as potential 'terrorists.' See here for the 72 types of Americans that are considered “potential terrorists” in official government documents. See here for more about the FBI and InfraGard. See here and here for previous posts about phony alternative media websites that are a part of intelligence. These "alternative media" websites actually look for people that are critics of NATO foreign policy, Zionism, Israel, or people that are strong supporters of constitutional rights. 

Essentially, they are ignoring organized crime while Canada and the United States are being overrun by all kinds of organized crime. But, at the top, it's mostly Jewish organized crime and Zionist interests that connect into finance and the intelligence industry. (See here, here and here to learn more about them.) 

They are the most influential group of people in taking away your rights and creating the Homeland security laws, they are also the group that is supposedly most concerned about terrorism, but not Zionist terrorists. (See here, here, hereherehere, here, here to learn about Zionist terrorism and how it is the 100-pound Gorilla that no one wants to deal with. It is literally sanctioned and protected by the intelligence agencies of Canada and the United States. In fact, the intelligence agencies are engaging in Stasi-like activity with classified weaponry, at tax payers expense!) See here and here for Stasi influenced Jewish terrorism being done on individuals that are critical of Zionism. It should also be noted that Jews have a connection to the creation of the Stasi, see here and here for that. 


Here are the articles from the
National Post: read here and here.
Also see here for an article from
 the Globe & Mail. 




Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Mass Scale Debauchery in the United States Government - Right Up to the Highest Levels - Including the NSA and CIA

Forward Note: As I said before, this is why you cannot trust government spy institutions and the police who work with them. See herehere, here, here and here for more connections to mind control, pedophilia, drug trafficking, human and child trafficking with spy institutions.  Most people do not know that one of the ways for intelligence officers or anyone else, (a hacker,) to download child porn is to use someone else's computer. They can also use BitTorrents and other Peer-to-Peer File Sharing programs. Many people often download and use these programs for other reasons, but, they can be dangerous because hackers can piggyback on them and download other material onto your computer.

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The Pizzagate meme that you hear going around right now is certainly nothing new. The first thing to keep in mind is this stuff is real and it happens. It goes back hundreds if not thousands of years. From cases like Giles de Rais to the Countess Elizabeth Báthory


There Really is People That Are This Crazy

Don't forget the Ian Watkins baby incidents with Peaches Geldof. Peaches tweeted out the Mom's names involved in this. Then there is Jimmy Savile and especially the case of Marc Dutroux who literally had children in torture chambers. The Marc Dutroux case also involved elites in high places. These connections run through the royal families, the Anglo-American empire, the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church which is connected to the Church of England and the Royal Family, the Jewish elite, the state of Israel and Arab allies in the middle east, like Saudi Arabia.  

But, it is also happening in Canada and the United States. Just look at this interview with Corey Feldman about the Hollywood elite and pedophilia and this video with Elijah Wood about the child sex abuse problem in Hollywood. You can also watch this documentary called Hollywood Pedophiles Exposed. Then, of course, there is Jeffery Epstein, the billionaire pedophile with his sex slaves and orgy island. Someone who the Clintons, Donald Trump, and many others knew. Most people have never heard of this case with the father of Nicole Kidman either, where it was alleged that he was involved in an elite pedophile ring.

Another case to consider is Russell Williams in Canada. Russell Williams was the roommate of Paul Bernardo. Williams was flying around Stephen Harper and the Royal family! These are not coincidences. Just like the connections between drugs, organized crime, law enforcement and the intelligence industry.

It's also thought provoking to contemplate the cases below in the context of the classified technology I'm talking aboutThe intelligence industry and elite politically connected individuals are hoarding classified technology and some of us are under a perverted level of surveillance. (They can do it to anyone.) These people have access to technology that allows them to turn someone's life into a reality TV show


They can look out any child, woman or man's eyes. This is the never talked about link between the intelligence agencies and pedophilia. They are, by default, all voyeurs and pedophiles.  The people in control of the United States government right now are absolute lying psychopaths. You are truly living in times comparable to the French Revolution. Their levels of corruption, greed, and depravity are beyond most people's imaginations. This is nothing new. It was going on at the time of the Franklin Coverup, also see here for more about the FBI and Child Sex Trafficking. 

The intelligence agencies are run by complete lying sadistic perverted psychopaths. Do you think it is a coincidence that John Podesta is friends with former speaker of the House, Dennis Hastert

Do you think it's a coincidence that Andrew Breitbart tweeted out those tweets before he died? Another interesting video is this one here, with Andrew Breitbart with Greg Gutfeld on Fox making remarks about "Ping Pong." Hmm, you don't think they knew something?  (See here for more about Comet Ping Pong.)

Below is a whole list of United States abuses that are worth looking at. What is most compelling about them, is many are a part of the government, the most interesting being the intelligence agencies and the Pentagon. This is already something that I pointed out here and here



Ex-House Speaker, 'serial child molester' Dennis Hastert goes to prison

CIA able to keep its secrets on budgets, bad apples

Pentagon lagged on pursuing porn cases

5,200 Pentagon Employees Bought Child Pornography – Investigation halted after 8 Months:

Pentagon computers used for child pornography:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUvMIzkccdg

Did We Finish Looking Into Those 1,700 Pentagon Child Porn Cases?'

Child Porn, Coke Smuggling: Hundreds of DHS Employees Arrested Last Year

‘Cannibal Cop’ partner Michael Van Hise wanted to keep children as sex slaves: prosecutors

'Cannibal Cop's' partner 'wanted to make stepdaughter, three, a sex slave and offered two nieces to be raped'

Hill aide arrested on child porn charges

Ryan Loskarn Child Pornography

Lamar Alexander's former aide, charged with child porn, kills himself

Crimes Of DHS Employees – Child Porn, Coke Smuggling, Forgery, Bribery, And Robbery

DHS Press Secretary Arrested on Child Seduction Charges

Jared Fogle, ex-Subway pitchman, paid kids for sex on New York trips, prosecutor says

San Francisco: Homeland Security agent found guilty of possession of child pornography

Customs and Border Protection Supervisor Pleads Guilty to Possession of Child Pornography

State Department official arrested on suspicion of seeking sex with minor: CNN

UPDATE: Aldie man charged with sexually soliciting middle school girls

State Department employee arrested on child porn charge in Broward

N.J. state employee used work computer to download child porn, AG says

State Department employee Carl Carey arrested on child porn charges

Conn. Mayor Arrested on Child Sex Charges

Cop Arrested for Child Sex Charges AGAIN — After Dept Failed to Prosecute the First Time

Real Life #Pizzagate Authorities Arrest 51 In Child Sex Ring, Lawmakers Included

South Florida ICE official arrested on child porn charges

Former Navy official pleads to pornography charge

Former Navy chaplain to be sentenced for child pornography

Former Navy MP pleads guilty to federal child porn charge

Former Navy sailor pleads guilty to child porn charge

Undersecretary of the Navy, Special Assistant to Reagan, Pentagon Spokesman - CHILD PORN

Former Navy Physician’s Assistant Pleads Guilty to Child Porn Charges

Ex-Blue Angels photographer pleads guilty to child porn charge

Ex-Army Colonel Weeps as He Is Sentenced to Prison on Child Pornography Charges

Canadian soldier in England pleads guilty to making and possessing child pornography

Former Ontario education deputy minister pleads guilty to three child porn charges

Military officer pleads guilty to possessing graphic child porn

Ex-Clinton adviser pleads to child-porn charge

Ex-Edmonton soldier pleads guilty to child porn charges

Former Subway pitchman seeks to plead guilty to child pornography, sex charges

Former drug agent pleads guilty to federal child pornography charge

More high-ranking officers being charged with sex crimes against subordinates

Retired Navy officer gets one year prison in child-porn case

Portland Man Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Possessing One Image of Child Sexual Abuse- employee of the DOI's Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)

Former Department of Agriculture Worker Sentenced for Child Porn

Former House staffer sentenced for child porn

Former federal worker gets 50 years in rape, child porn case

Army colonel sentenced to 12 years in child pornography case

Former Greene County Deputy Sentenced for Child Porn

Former Coulee Dam school administrator pleads guilty to federal child porn charge

Richmond Resident Convicted of Possession of Child Pornography 

Former BPD detective sentenced in child porn case

Former top FBI agent charged with child porn distribution

Friday, December 16, 2016

Former DEA Agent Exposes US Government’s Role in Cocaine Epidemic

After watching the video, read the article below, also see here for a previous article on the topic of the CIA and drugs. 


by Isaac Davis

There is an epidemic of cocaine, heroin, and other drug use in America, and many other drugs are being shipped into the US in greater numbers than ever before. Are the United States government and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to blame for flooding American communities with cocaine in the 1970’s by covertly supporting the Latin American drug trade?
Many retired employees of the CIA, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), and police, in addition to numerous investigative journalists, believe this to be the truth, and that various U.S. government and CIA officials should be held accountable and even tried.
A 25-year veteran of the DEA and author of the book, Triangle of Death, Michael Levine claims the CIA played a key role in allowing the trafficking of drugs, particularly cocaine, into the U.S. from Latin America. Acting as a deep undercover agent for many years of his life, Levine found through first-hand experience that the CIA knew that drugs were being smuggled onto the streets of U.S. cities but did nothing about it. He claims that the Agency even leaked undercover DEA operations to the drug cartels.
Other DEA agents have made similar claims.
Former DEA head John Lawn, testified that Oliver North, Marine Corps lieutenant colonel who in the 1980’s served on the National Security Council staff at the White House, and other officials, “created a privatized contra network that attracted drug traffickers looking for cover for their operations, then turned a blind eye to repeated reports of drug smuggling related to the contras, and actively worked with known drug smugglers such as Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.” Lawn swore under oath that North himself had prematurely leaked a DEA undercover operation, jeopardizing agents’ lives, for political advantage in an upcoming Congressional vote on aid to the contras. (Source)
Oliver North, of course, denied any knowledge of the contras involvement in the drug trafficking trade. During the Iran-Contra Congressional Hearing in 1987, when allegations first began, North stated during his opening statement:
Some said I was second only in power to the President of the United States, and others that I condoned drug trafficking to generate funds for the contras, or that I personally ordered assassinations, or that I was conducting my own foreign policy. It has even been suggested that I was the personal confidant of the President of the United States. These, and many other stories, are patently untrue.” (Source)
On the Fox News political program Hannity and Colmes, North reclaimed:
“The fact is nobody in the government of the United States, going all the way back to the earliest days of this under Jimmy Carter, ever had anything to do with running drugs to support the Nicaraguan resistance. Nobody in the government of the United States. I will stand on that to my grave.” (Source)
Levine refers to North’s diary, which was not presented in front of the Congressional Hearing. North’s diaries, e-mail, and memos were made public by the National Security Archive much later, in February 2004. The documents revealed:
Mr. North’s diary entries, from the reporter’s notebooks he kept in those years, noting multiple reports of drug smuggling among the contras. A Washington Post investigation published on 22 October 1994 found no evidence he had relayed these reports to the DEA or other law enforcement authorities.
Memos from North aide Robert Owen to Mr. North recounting drug-running “indiscretions” among the contras, warning that a known drug-smuggling airplane was delivering taxpayer-funded “humanitarian aid” overseen by Mr. North.
Mr. North’s White House e-mails recounting his efforts to spring from prison a Honduran general who could “spill the beans” on the secret contra war, even though the Justice Department termed the Honduran a “narcoterrorist” for his involvement in cocaine smuggling and an assassination plot.
Mr. North’s White House e-mails and diary entries on his personal meeting on 22 September 1986 with Noriega, following up Noriega’s offer to “take care of” the Sandinista leadership if the White House would help “clean up his image.” (Source)
What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?
Then there was Gary Webb, an investigative reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and author of Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Cocaine Explosion.
Nearly a decade after the Iran-Contra Congressional Hearing, through a series of articles published in 1996, Webb created uproar in Southern California communities when he also alleged that the CIA had connections to a drug ring reaching into California.
In his published works, Webb alleged that the CIA and many U.S. government officials, including Oliver North, were fully aware that the contras were funneling cocaine into the U.S. He believed that the ties between the two organizations were so close, the contras could be called a CIA ‘subsidiary’ due to the frequency of their meetings with CIA operatives. Webb’s articles were criticized, his career destroyed, and he became the target of government retribution. His death in 2004 was officially deemed a suicide.
Oliver North is now a regular presence in mainstream media on the Fox News Channel documentary series, “War Stories with Oliver North,” and other appearances as an expert pundit. The drug war has certainly taken a quantum leap since the 1970’s, and has become a regular feature of our lives, but as many people around the world struggle for its end, the truth about its inception continues to be exposed.


Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Memorandum on the New 10-Year $38 billion U.S. Aid Package to Israel

Starting in 2019, the U.S. will give Israel $38 billion over the next 10 years – $3.8 billion per year, which is $10.41 million per day.

This is in line with previous years. Last year the U.S. gave Israel $3.7 billion – about $10.14 per day. In other words, the new aid package amounts to an increase of around $27 million per year.

Israel has long received more U.S. money than any other country. Some earlier disbursements were even larger when considered in today’s dollars. This aid to Israel amounts to more than half of all direct military aid the United States provides worldwide.

The new agreement will slowly phase out a unique Israeli privilege: Israel’s exception to the requirement that all U.S. military aid be used on American goods and services (40% of military aid to Israel is currently exempted). This special exemption is supposed to end by the seventh year.

It is expected that Israel and Israeli companies will work to get around this potential loss of revenue in a number of ways:
  • forming “partnerships” with American companies;
  • increasing the practice of requiring that some of the systems Israel purchases from American companies include Israeli-made components;
  • increasing the amount of material and other goods in general that the U.S. purchases from Israel, already far from negligible.
Under the agreement Israel promises not to ask for additional money; however, this promise includes loopholes:
  1. Israel may ask for more money if there is a “war.” (Israel’s 2014 invasion of Gaza – during which its forces killed over 2,200 Gazans, over a third of them women and children, and Palestinian resistance fighters killed 67 Israelis – was frequently called a “war.”)
  2. The great many Congressional representatives who are personally pro-Israel or who wish to curry favor with pro-Israel donors and media may independently vote additional money to Israel. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has already indicated that he intends to do just this.
Aid to Israel is technically illegal, violating U.S. regulations prohibiting U.S. aid to non-signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. There is currently a lawsuit pending in Washington DC challenging the disbursement of this aid.

The American public is not in favor of this aid to Israel. A recent survey showed that almost two-thirds of American voters feel that the U.S. gives Israel too much money
Numerous surveys over the years found that approximately two-thirds to three-quarters don’t wish the U.S. to take sides on Israel-Palestine.

The agreement is in the form of a “memorandum of understanding.” It is not a treaty and is not legally binding. American voters have the right to demand that the MoU be abandoned and that the aid end.

Monday, October 31, 2016

Collection of Tweets About Truth Seekers and Supposed "Conspiracy" Theorists Being Labeled As Potential Terrorists

Yes, it really is this crazy after September 11th and the advent of the new Homeland Security Laws in the United States and Bill C-51 or the "Anti-Terrorism Act" in Canada

1. 72 Types Of Americans That Are Considered “Potential Terrorists” In Official Government Documents

2. FBI Memo Labels Patriots, Truth-Seekers as Potential 'Terrorists

3. Look at what Cass Sunstein is saying about Conspiracies: or let us put this another way, freedom of thought

4. 
Look who Cass Sunstein's wife is: Samantha Power see her Twitter accounts here and here --- I promise you, these people know who I am. She is no Human Rights Defender. 
I am, not her.

5. Is this a joke to Americans and Canadians? Is everything just one big joke? How pathetic are our countries to allow this?

6. You have no rights anymore under the new laws in Canada and the United States- when they declare you a "terrorist," they can do this to anyone they want.


7. People should do research on Homeland Security and Bill C-51

8. Read here for Dennis Kucinich Attempted Ban of Space-Based Weapons. This new class of weapons is being used on unaware, not informed humans, who of course did not consent to such experimentation. The Nuremberg Code of Conduct for experimentation with human subjects, is part of the Customary Law and the UDHR. The Code lists ten points, which universally have been adopted after the Nuremberg trials of war criminals by the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. The secret technologies in question are covered by military/agency secrecy orders. The victims are not openly confronted as that would remove any feigned excuses and leave the perpetrators open to all manner of accusation. Instead, the methods used are covert; employing high-tech methods to remotely torture, torment and deceive victims without leaving evidence. 

9. Incidentally, Samantha Power is one of the names mentioned in this article about fighting "global anti-Semitism"

10. Go here to learn more about Homeland Security

11. You can see the articles I put up about James Altucher here and here. Isn't it interesting that Cass Sunstein was on his podcast show?





Sunday, October 30, 2016

Police State Canada: Communications Security Establishment Runs Massive Stasi-Like Domestic Spying Program


For previous articles about the CSE, please see here, here and here.

The CSE is a part of the 5-Eyes with the NSAThe big secret that they are not talking about with the CSE is the advanced technology of Echelon and Signals Intelligence along with the true nature of what the PRISM data mining program really is. The eventual plan is to have everyone hooked up to a computer to monitor their thoughts and be able to "data-mine" them. It is a form of thought policing that extends far beyond telecommunications and the internet. To learn more about this, see herehere and here.

If you are a targeted person, they are recording your whole life Eventually, the plan is to record everyone's life. That is why they are building giant data centers like the one in Utah, they are using big data with sophisticated artificial intelligence and data mining software so they can predict the future just like in the movie Minority Report. The massive data centers in Utah are for data mining purposes so they can look for statistically significant patterns in the data. They want to have everyone "hooked up" so they can monitor all human thought patterns and hunt for what they deem as "irregular" thoughts or what they believe falls out of their categories of normality. In other words, they have set up a bell curve, and anyone who falls outside of this will be seen as suspicious. Right now, they are able to set alerts on your thoughts the same way they can on phone calls, emails, search terms etc.  See here for more about the inevitable problems of technology. See here for more about the DARPA A.I Control Grid.

As far as Echelon and Signals Intelligence, it's important to realize that Signals Intelligence covers everything from intercepting signals to surveillance and electronic warfare. Please see earth-penetrating tomographyInterferometry, also Earth's Field NMRNuclear Magnetic Resonance, and Electron Paramagnetic Resonance. One part of the secret of Echelon is leaking electrical emanations which is a part of the TEMPEST program and is categorized under RADIATION intelligence. It is classified. All natural things give out radio waves, that includes you.

See this video and this video for an example using a computer. (See here, where the physicist Dr. John Morgan says 2 minutes and 10 seconds into the video, that all natural things emit radio waves. Watch this video with Michael Persinger where he talks about how light and photons can be measured. Also, take notice in this video when the physicist mentions that the brain "radiates" radio.)


What You Are:


The imagers they use are multi-purpose, the imaging transmitters target locations, areas and living animals with directed energy. There are passive and active modes, the active mode requires the transmission of signals into the target where passive mode allows imaging with illumination occurring by other means like spying through leaking electrical emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations. 

Essentially, this technology can be used with nanotechnology for holography and nanoparticle imaging. (See here and here for examples of holography,  here for more about nanoparticle imaging and here for more about molecular imaging.) 

But that's not all, it can also be used for synthetic telepathy. Light can be measured, (photons,) minds can be read, thoughts can be sent. If you can think a thought, you can send it. Just like writing an email with your mind. Zuckerberg is saying it here,  he's just not telling you the whole story.  See here for another article with Mark Zuckerberg referring to synthetic telepathy. See here for a Cisco ad that talks about this technology. Also, see this TedTalk video for another example. This technology can be used between humans that are hooked up to computers, (human to human) or by a computer to a human.

When used in conjunction with nanotechnology they have access to your vital signs, the ability to read your EEG and your brain states, look out of your eyes and hear out of your ears. (See this old clip of a scientist looking out of a cat's eyes. What they have now is even more advanced.) They can hack into your brain the same way they do with your computer. They can also alter and affect your behavior. (See here and here.) They can track you anywhere on the planet and hurt or maim you in a plausibly deniable way from a remote location. They can shoot you and your family with space-based weapons. See here for more about electronic warfare. See here for more about microwave weaponry.

Remember, YOU PAY FOR ALL OF THIS! That is so important to remember, these losers work for you! Don't ever forget that, they are using your money to enslave you. Demand transparency, do not settle for anything less. Demand that your government starts being honest with you. Honesty and the democratizing of this technology scares the absolute crap out of these people. Do you know why? Because they know they will be lynched. The foundation of Canada will be called into question and they know this. Why are you so scared of them? They are your employees. 

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By Keith Jones

On the basis of secret government directives, Canada’s national security apparatus is conducting mass surveillance of Canadians parallel to, if not directly patterned after, the domestic spying operations of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
Communications Security Establishment (CSE), the NSA’s Canadian counterpart and longstanding partner, has been scrutinizing the metadata of Canadians’ electronic communications since at least 2005.
Moreover, the NSA routinely provides Canada’s security agencies with intelligence on Canadians and CSE reciprocates by providing U.S. intelligence officials with information about people living in the U.S. This arrangement allows both agencies to circumvent legal bans on warrantless surveillance of their own citizenry’s communications.
It was “common” for NSA “to pass on information about Canadians,” Wayne Easter, Canada’s Solicitor-General in 2002-3, told the Toronto Star this week. As Solicitor-General, Easter was responsible for overseeing the operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
The extent and scope of CSE’s spying and who is being targeted and why are all zealously guarded state secrets. The CSE functions under secret directives issued by the Minister of Defence—directives whose very existence is unknown to parliamentarians, let alone the public at large.
The Canadian government has responded to any slight or partial lifting of the veil on CSE activities with a campaign of disinformation, dissembling and lies. This campaign has even been facilitated by the supposed opposition parties, like the left-wing New Democratic Party, and of course, the corporate media; they have made no more than tepid calls for greater transparency about the CSC’s spying.
The Globe and Mail reported that in November 2011, former Defence Minister Peter MacKay signed a secret directive authorizing the CSE to continue its “mining” of the metadata of Canadians’ telephone and internet communications. (As I point out above, it is much worse than phone calls and internet communications.) The Globe said the program had been first authorized by Bill Graham, Defence Minister in Paul Martin’s Liberal government, in 2005, that is six years earlier.
MacKay, like U.S. President Barack Obama, responded to this revelation of massive state spying by flatly denying that CSE is “targeting” Canadians or violating constitutional prohibitions on warrantless surveillance of their communications. This lie is predicated on the drawing of a spurious distinction between the metadata created by any electronic communication and the rest of the communication and on the transparently false claim that such information is innocuous.
According to the Globe, a briefing prepared for MacKay in 2011, presumably by CSE or lawyers within his department, declared, “Metadata is information associated with a telecommunication … And not a communication.”
In fact metadata—which includes such information as the source, destination, and duration of a telephone call—is intrinsic to any electronic communication. By systematically gathering and analyzing such metadata, the U.S. and Canadian national-security apparatuses can rapidly build up detailed profiles of targeted individuals and groups, including identifying everything from their associates, to where they work, bank, and shop, and what websites they visit.
In the course of his efforts to cover-up the scope and purpose of CSE’s metadata mining, MacKay did make one revealing admission. In response to a question about the mass surveillance of Canadians’ communications, MacKay told Parliament, “I have a heads-up for the member … This is something that has been happening for years.”
Government sources, many of them unnamed, sought, meanwhile, to refute the Globe ’s claim that there had been serious questions within the state apparatus about the constitutionality of the CSE’s “metadata” mining of Canadians’ communications. In its report, the Globe said that in 2008 the then CSE Commissioner—that is the head of the government-appointed “watchdog” charged with ensuring the agency does not go beyond its legal mandate—had cautioned that the program could be violating Canadians constitutional rights and, because of his concerns, the metadata mining program was suspended for more than a year.
Sources from within the government and CSE dispute this. They say that the questions raised by Charles Gonthier—a former, now deceased former Supreme Court Justice—concerned only a small part of a much larger program, that only this part of the metadata mining program was ever suspended, and then only very briefly.
The current CSE Commissioner has publicly defended the mass surveillance and claimed that his predecessor likewise believed that the CSE has every right to spy on Canadian’s electronic communications. In an e-mailed statement to the Toronto Star, Ryan Foreman, a spokesman for CSE Commissioner Robert Decary, said, “The commissioner never questioned the legality of CSE’s metadata activities.”
MacKay and the government have also sought to shield CSE’s actions from public scrutiny by insisting that it is solely devoted to gathering foreign intelligence and, as MacKay told Parliament, “is specifically prohibited from looking at the information of Canadians.” This is an obvious falsehood and not just because warrantless metadata mining is a form of spying.
CSE’s government mandate stipulates—as MacKay well knows since he has been the minister responsible for overseeing its work for the past seven years—that it “provide technical and operational assistance” to CSIS, the RCMP and other domestic security-intelligence and law enforcement agencies “in the performance of their lawful duties.” Furthermore, CSE can seek authorization from the Defence Minister to capture and read the communications of Canadians who are in some way connected to its foreign intelligence targets. As the Toronto Star ’s Thomas Walkom has observed, “In 2011-12, the last year for which figures are available, eight such ministerial authorizations—all of unknown size and scope—were in play.”
While vigorously defending CSE’s metadata spying, the government has been anxious to put on a record that CSE does not have access to the NSA’s PRISM Program and has not been using it as a means of monitoring Canadians’ communications. Under PRISM, NSA agents are able to directly access the servers of the most important U.S. based internet companies, including Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Facebook.
The government’s claims concerning the CSE and PRISM are not credible. The CSE has been a close partner of the NSA, sharing intelligence information with it on a daily basis, for more than six decades.
Britain, which like Canada, is part of the “Five Eyes”—a consortium formed in the late 1940s by the NSA, CSE, and the signals communications agencies of Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand to jointly monitor global communications—has already said that it obtained intelligence about Britons through PRISM.
The NSA and CSE, as the spurious distinction they have made between electronic communications’ metadata and rest of the communications illustrates, can and do create pretexts and mechanisms to illegally circumvent constitutional prohibitions.
Last but not least, whatever the validity of MacKay’s denial about spying on Canadians through PRISM, it only concerned CSE. As Easter’s comments cited above demonstrate, Canada’s security agencies have long been the recipients of intelligence on Canadians from the NSA as part of longstanding Canada-U.S. intelligence-sharing agreements and partnerships.
The CSE is part of a growing state within the state whose operations are hidden from the public. Most Canadians had never heard of the CSE and even now they know very little about its activities. When former Defence Minister MacKay renewed by secret ministerial order CSE’s authorization to spy on Canadians’ electronic communications in November 2011 he issued six other secret ministerial directives to CSE—none of whose subject let alone contents has been publicly revealed.
As in the United States, Canada’s elite has used the so-called war on terror to justify Canada’s participation in a series of imperialist wars, massively expand the national-security apparatus, and adopt laws that attack core democratic rights.