Bill RobinsonThe 2023 annual report of the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians (NSICOP), released on 5 June 2024, is not the report everyone is focused on, but it does have at least one intriguing element. 1/x https://nsicop-cpsnr.ca/press-releases
NSICOP examined an intelligence collection activity so secret that it would say little more than it had "concerns about the authority" of the department or agency to participate in it. 2/x
Interestingly, the Intelligence Commissioner recently denied part of a Foreign Intelligence Authorization for CSE on the grounds that the activities in question were "outside the scope" of the CSE Act. 4/x https://luxexumbra.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-intelligence-commissioner-and.html
A report released by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) in 2023 also raised concerns about the legal ramifications of a redacted collection activity planned by CSE. 5/x
https://nsira-ossnr.gc.ca/wp-content/uploads/CSE-MAMO_EN.pdf
Do the concerns expressed by NSICOP, NSIRA, and the Intelligence Commissioner all relate to one set of activities? Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe there are multiple areas of concern. It would be interesting to know more. 6/6