CSIS says ‘limited resources’ means it cannot track terrorist sympathizers ‘all the time’
“Limited resources” prevent CSIS from providing blanket coverage of all 80 suspected Canadian terrorism sympathizers who went abroad and returned home, says a senior intelligence official.
OTTAWA—A senior Canadian spy gave stunning new details Monday about the involvement of Canadians in the Islamic State, and admitted that due to “limited resources” CSIS is unable to provide blanket coverage of all 80 suspected Canadian terrorism sympathizers who went abroad and returned to Canada.
Jeff Yaworski, deputy operations director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told a Senate committee Monday that CSIS has to “prioritize” its active monitoring of individuals who are now back on Canadian soil and pose a potential threat. Some are under judicially warranted surveillance, he said, implying their communications and/or movements are intercepted and tracked.
He said the RCMP is working “wherever possible” with CSIS to cover them. But he was blunt in his assessment.
“When they do come back to Canada, obviously we’ve got to monitor their activities as much as we can but prioritize as well. We can’t devote all our resources to all of them all the time.”
Yaworksi said CSIS must closely investigate not just returnees, but extremists who are prevented from going overseas who have been “radicalized to the point where they wanted to leave.”
“There’s nothing more that we can do with the budget that we have except to prioritize internally as effectively as we can and I think we’re doing that. Our success rate has been quite good . . . I’d be foolhardy to say we’ve got all the bases covered. We do what we can with the budget that we have.”
It was a surprising declaration given assurances that the heads of CSIS and the RCMP had given a Commons committee less than two weeks earlier that all 80 sympathizers were being tracked.
source: CSIS says ‘limited resources’ means it cannot track terrorist sympathizers ‘all the time’ | Toronto Star
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“Limited resources” prevent CSIS from providing blanket coverage of all 80 suspected Canadian terrorism sympathizers who went abroad and returned home, says a senior intelligence official.
OTTAWA—A senior Canadian spy gave stunning new details Monday about the involvement of Canadians in the Islamic State, and admitted that due to “limited resources” CSIS is unable to provide blanket coverage of all 80 suspected Canadian terrorism sympathizers who went abroad and returned to Canada.
Jeff Yaworski, deputy operations director at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, told a Senate committee Monday that CSIS has to “prioritize” its active monitoring of individuals who are now back on Canadian soil and pose a potential threat. Some are under judicially warranted surveillance, he said, implying their communications and/or movements are intercepted and tracked.
He said the RCMP is working “wherever possible” with CSIS to cover them. But he was blunt in his assessment.
“When they do come back to Canada, obviously we’ve got to monitor their activities as much as we can but prioritize as well. We can’t devote all our resources to all of them all the time.”
Yaworksi said CSIS must closely investigate not just returnees, but extremists who are prevented from going overseas who have been “radicalized to the point where they wanted to leave.”
“There’s nothing more that we can do with the budget that we have except to prioritize internally as effectively as we can and I think we’re doing that. Our success rate has been quite good . . . I’d be foolhardy to say we’ve got all the bases covered. We do what we can with the budget that we have.”
It was a surprising declaration given assurances that the heads of CSIS and the RCMP had given a Commons committee less than two weeks earlier that all 80 sympathizers were being tracked.
source: CSIS says ‘limited resources’ means it cannot track terrorist sympathizers ‘all the time’ | Toronto Star
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Well MegaHurtz, looks like you caught a break :lol:
