Trumps torture view may change secrets sharing with Canada: spy watchdog executive

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Source: Toronto Globe and Mail

Trumps torture view may change secrets sharing with Canada: spy watchdog executive

Colin Freeze
The Globe and Mail

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Published Thursday, Dec. 08, 2016 5:00AM EST
Last updated Thursday, Dec. 08, 2016 9:27AM EST

The civil servant in charge of the governments spy-watchdog agency says Canada may have to reconsider how it shares intelligence with the United States if president-elect Donald Trump makes good on his promise to torture terrorists to gather intelligence.
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Michael Doucet, the executive director of the Security Intelligence Review Committee, made the off-the-cuff remarks to a small audience in Toronto last week. An audio recording of his talk was provided to The Globe and Mail by a student journalist from the Eyeopener, a campus newspaper at Ryerson University, which was the venue for the talk.

For 1 1/2 hours, the former intelligence analyst held forth on intelligence issues. ... Members of SIRC rarely make unscripted or unguarded remarks publicly because they are sworn to secrecy about their work reviewing the highly classified spying operations of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. ... When contacted on Wednesday, Mr. Doucet acknowledged he made the comments, but said he was not expecting them to be recorded.
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Should the CIA revert to practices such as simulated drowning techniques known as waterboarding, it could cause problems for CSIS and other Canadian agencies. ... Its going to be interesting to see how this evolves in the U.S. in the next four years, because I think there is a game changer going on down there, Mr. Doucet said at Ryerson. How do we react with them? Because we think torture is a bad thing. We dont want information derived from torture. ... They may have a new administration that thinks torture is a good thing. Its going to be an interesting and challenging time, and weve got to think about what defines us as Canadians.

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Canada. Used to be great. Mounties. Maple syrup. Igloos. Now losers. Sad.

[elmac]

1. As a citizen of a fascist country

I ask that all non fascist countries cease cooperation with trumpland, do not help, do not aid fascist USA.