CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns, saying it seemed more like " election year " politics, than an actual threat-and the New York Times pointed out that one day before the announcement, they had been told by the Department of Homeland Security that there were no current risks.

CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns, saying it seemed more like " election year " politics, than an actual threat.

CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns, saying it seemed more like " election year " politics, than an actual threat – and the New York Times pointed out that one day before the announcement, they had been told by the Department of Homeland Security that there were no current risks.

CSIS director Reid Morden voiced similar concerns, saying it seemed more like " election year " politics, than an actual threat-and the New York Times pointed out that one day before the announcement, they had been told by the Department of Homeland Security that there were no current risks.

However, these agencies are not to be confused with the more encompassing work of larger more dedicated " intelligence agencies " such as CSIS, MI5, MI6, or the CIA.

CSIS has at times come under criticism, such as for its role in the investigation of the 1985 Air India bombing.

On March 31, 2009, CSIS lawyer and advisor Geoffrey O ' Brian told the Committee on Public Safety and National Security that CSIS would use information obtained by torture if it could prevent another attack such as 9 / 11 or the Air India bombing.

LexRank deals with diversity as a heuristic final stage using CSIS, and other systems have used similar methods, such as Maximal Marginal Relevance ( MMR ), in trying to eliminate redundancy in information retrieval results.

As personnel staffed the SitCen, key organizations such as Nav Canada, the Department of National Defence, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ), Citizenship and Immigration Canada ( CIC ), and Canada Customs and Revenue Agency ( CCRA ) were also involved in SitCen operations.

Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) testimonies included opinions that he would also " have been trained in such areas as: operating rocket-propelled grenade-launchers, sabotage, urban and assassination.

" CSIS also alleged that " t was noteworthy that one of those who participated in the hijacking of September 11 attacks in 2001 had taken martial arts training in preparation ..." and suggested that Charkaoui represented a sleeper agent. This led to the issuance of the security certificate by the two responsible government ministers after which he was detained, and such evidence was also enough to uphold the certificate by Federal Court upon review.

CSIS works closely with the intelligence agencies of the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

On September 18, 2006, the Arar Commission absolved CSIS of any involvement in the extraordinary rendition by the United States of a Canadian citizen, Maher Arar.

Before that he was the Staff Director for the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States from January 1998 to July 1998 ; a Senior Fellow in Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ( CSIS ) from 1993 to 1998 ; the Director for Strategic Defense Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1990 to 1993 ; the Deputy Director, Strategic Analysis, SRS Technologies ( Washington Operations ) from 1986 to 1990 ; and a Staff Member in the Office of the Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1982 to 1986.

Following the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, he was interviewed by Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) agent Adrian White who wanted to question him about the map, and his visit to Syria in April.

** Canada: Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS )

The Commission recommended that the force's intelligences duties be removed in favour of the creation of a separate intelligence agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ).

This board is the overseer for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, or CSIS.

* Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS )

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS, ;, SCRS ) is Canada's primary national intelligence service.

CSIS is responsible to Parliament through the Minister of Public Safety, but is also overseen by the Federal Court system, the Inspector General of CSIS, and the Security Intelligence Review Committee.

CSIS is subject to review by the Security Intelligence Review Committee ( SIRC ) and an Inspector General ( IG ) as well as other legislative checks and balances.

Security Liaison Officers ( SLOs ) of CSIS are posted at Canadian embassies and consulates to gather security-related intelligence from other nations.

The activities of CSIS are regularly reviewed on behalf of Parliament by the Security Intelligence Review Committee ( SIRC ).

It concluded that a " cascading series of errors " by the government of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) had allowed the terrorist attack to take place.

" In September, in an attempt to get his sentence for theft and fraud reduced, Harmail Singh Grewal of Vancouver told the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ) of the plot to bomb the flight out of Montreal.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) put Slahi under surveillance for several weeks but lacked any grounds to arrest him.

Grant Bristow, a mole for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ), infiltrated the group and became one of its leaders.

They were accused of planning to detonate truck bombs, to open fire in a crowded area, and to storm the Canadian Broadcasting Centre, the Canadian Parliament building, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) headquarters, and the parliamentary Peace Tower, to take hostages and to behead the Prime Minister and other leaders.

In their 2008 report concerning Mahmoud Jaballah, Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) stated that Omar and Abdulkareem attended " training camps ".

* Richard Fadden ( born 1951 ), director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS )

However, the recordings of the conversation were later erased by Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ).

* Commercial Sex Information Service ( CSIS ) ( Canada )

The Security Intelligence Review Committee ( SIRC ) is an independent agency of the government of Canada empowered to oversee and review the operations of Canada's security service, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and investigate complaints against CSIS.

The certificate is prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) and signed by the Solicitor General of Canada, currently the Minister of Public Safety, and the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration when a non-citizen, either a permanent resident, refugee or foreign national located in Canada, is deemed to be inadmissible on the grounds that the subject is suspected to be a threat to national security, or has violated human rights abroad, or is involved with organized crime.

* Certificates Under The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act ( IRPA ) Information on security certificates from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS )

It was replaced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) on the recommendation of the McDonald Commission, which was called in the wake of major scandals in the 1970s.

As a result of illegal tactics used by the Security Service and consequent scandals surrounding the RCMP, intelligence work was transferred to a new agency, CSIS, in 1984.

Bourrie stated that he was asked to write for Xinhua in 2009 and sought advice from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ), but was ignored.

In 1998, he flew to Pakistan to study religion for a book he was hoping to write ; the Canadian Security Intelligence Service ( CSIS ) believes he slipped across the border into Afghanistan and attended Khalden training camp under the name Zubeir Al-Magrebi, although he denies the allegation.

Mr. Ghani has been sought as a public speaker and in 2005 given the keynote speeches for a number of meetings including the American Bar Association ’ s International Rule of Law Symposium, the Trans-Atlantic Policy Network, the annual meeting of the Norwegian Government ’ s development staff, CSIS ’ meeting on UN reform, the UN-OECD-World Bank ’ s meeting on Fragile States, and TEDGlobal.