RCMP Watch

Bill Curry, Globe and Mail
The federal government delayed an investigation into how CSIS handled the Air India file partly out of fear that new revelations would drive up the cost of settling related lawsuits, an inquiry heard Thursday.
Ron Atkey, who chaired the Security Intelligence Review Committee overseeing the spy agency from 1984 to 1989, told [...]

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Jim Brown, (Canadian Press)
A retired Mountie says he thought he had a deal, within days of the 1985 Air India bombing, for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to hang on to any evidence it had that could help bring the perpetrators to justice.
Former superintendent Lyman Henschel told a public inquiry Monday that shortly after Fight [...]

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Canadian Press
The watchdogs who monitored Canada’s spy agency wanted to investigate its handling of the Air India bombing as early as 1988, but had to abandon their plans under pressure from senior federal bureaucrats, a public inquiry has heard.
Ron Atkey, former chairman of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, testified Thursday that the main concern in [...]

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Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun
A former Crown prosecutor says Canada’s spy agency was neither cooperative nor forthright when he was working with the RCMP on the Air India bombing case.
James Jardine told the Air India inquiry on Tuesday he was frustrated for months by the reluctance of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service — CSIS — to [...]

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Vancouver Province
Testimony about feuding between the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the RCMP dominated the Air India inquiry when it resumed yesterday.
CSIS destroyed dozens of tapes it made of telephone calls between bombing mastermind Talwinder Singh Parmar and other suspects despite having pledged full co-operation to the RCMP following the bombing on June 23, 1985.

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Jim Brown, Canadian Press
A retired Mountie says he thought he had a deal, within days of the 1985 Air India bombing, for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service to hang on to any evidence it had that could help bring the perpetrators to justice.
Former superintendent Lyman Henschel told a public inquiry yesterday that shortly after Fight [...]

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Kim Bolan, CanWest News Service
Two former RCMP officers told the Air India inquiry yesterday that Canada’s spy agency had pledged full co-operation in their criminal probe of the deadly June 23, 1985, bombing.
But, despite meetings after which the RCMP believed vital evidence would be retained, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service destroyed dozens of tapes it [...]

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CBC News
Canada’s security agency failed to tell an RCMP task force in the days after the 1985 Air India disaster that it had been recording the phone conversations of a well-known Sikh extremist, a former Mountie testified Monday.
Former RCMP superintendent Lyman Henschel, who appeared at the resumption of the Air India inquiry after its summer [...]

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CTV.ca News Staff
The RCMP is brushing aside suggestions it was wrong to rely on questionable intelligence obtained from abroad to support search and wiretap warrant applications in the case of Maher Arar and another Canadian of Arab origin held in Syria.
A Sept. 2006 report by Justice Dennis O’Connor said the RCMP wrongly labelled Arar a [...]

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The Gazette
So the CIA had its dirty callused fingers all over the kidnapping of a Canadian citizen and his furtive export to Syria in October of 2002. So the “information” that led to this nightmare for Maher Arar was largely based on a “confession” elicited by torture in Syria. So the Royal Canadian Mounted Police [...]

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