CSIS: Nothing but trouble and shame

CSIS witnesses may have misled Harkat trial

May have? Given its history, it was just a matter of time before yet another example of CSIS chicanery oozed into the daylight.

This is exactly why Secret Trials should be abolished and why judges should long ago have refused to get involved in them. The Judges who have disbelieved Harkat in favour of what CSIS tells them behind closed doors have willingly buried their heads in muck, while many of us have watched the dirty dealings of CSIS for years and wouldn't trust them if they were the last source of information on earth.

The collaboration between the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) and CSIS is obvious. The brutal raid they carried out recently on the Harkat's home and privacy was a desperate attempt to find something, anything, that might save CSIS from the inevitable wages of their sins!

How many times does CSIS have to be caught in lies and cover-ups before they are disbanded as more trouble and shame than they're worth? At least the RCMP bring in some tourist revenue. What has CSIS done for Canada other than scrabble under rocks and maintain the myth of Al Qaeda for the benefit of US wars of hegemony? The Secret Trials have cost the taxpayers a mint and years of agony for the accused and their families.

It's good to know that Judge Noel is being seen to do his job in an ethical fashion to avoid our justice system falling into "disrepute", but the truth is that it hasn't been in repute since the Security Certificate trials began. If anything a smidgeon of repute might be recovered by freeing and generously compensating the victims of this travesty. Mulroney was made a millionaire by suing everybody and his sidekick, it's the least that could be done for the Harkats.

Globe and Mail: Reliability of secret source in terror case cast into doubt

Judge Noel scolded the government Wednesday for not supplying the information much earlier. He stressed that any government figure who has shown even the slightest disregard for fair process “must be held to account.”

Sorry, Judge Noel, but I hold you and your judicial colleagues responsible as well. The Security Certificate trials have never been a "fair process", not for one single second, and yet you all participated in it and made judgments based on "evidence" that could not be validated nor cross-examined.

The media are equally responsible. Take a look at this misleading headline:

Terror suspect Harkat admits talking with al-Qaida

If you read further you find that, suddenly - after 7 years - CSIS has brought into court a purported admission by Harkat that he knew Abu Zubaydah - despite the fact that Zybaydah's fake status as an "Al Qaeda lieutenant" and recruiter has already been downgraded to just another Guantanamo victim of torture. This "admission" is just a scribbled summary based on who knows what information, and only now added to the court record!

The CBC was no less pernicious when it sent Peter Mansbridge into the prison where Harkat was still suffering the nervous effects of his predicament, and proceeded to grill him about Zubaydah as if he, a "news" man, had a clue what he was talking about. That was back when Harkat's English skills were poor and he was overwhelmed by the presence of such a well-known figure. Mansbridge eventually broke him down by taking away his last hope that Canadians would support him. Nice work. And a nice job the camera men did also - with Mansbridge well lighted and Harkat in shadow.

I have a strong feeling that all five Security Certificate cases will be closed soon, and that their victimization on behalf of the global agenda will be replaced by even greater trampling of human rights under an altered paradigm based on some sort of new fake crisis that the media and the courts will scramble to support. I hope I'm right about the first and wrong about the second, but Joe Biden may well have been signalling it - and perhaps there was a longer range vision for the model of Guantanamo North than has yet to meet the eye.

Related:
Video - Unfair Dealing - The Toronto 18
YYC report: Who's the Terrorist? It might be you!