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Craig Forcese

avatar Craig Forcese is Associate Professor, Faculty of Law (Common Law Section), University of Ottawa.


Spies Without Borders: International Law and Intelligence Collection

Spies Without Borders: International Law and Intelligence Collection

To the surprise of many, it turns out that Canada’s chief security intelligence agency – the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) –may not legally collect covert intelligence abroad. That is at least one interpretation of a Canadian Federal Court decision issued in October 2007, but only released publicly in 2008. At issue was whether the [...]