Spy Watchdog’s Foreign Meddling Review Finds ‘Unacceptable Gaps’ in Accountability

Spy Watchdog’s Foreign Meddling Review Finds ‘Unacceptable Gaps’ in Accountability
A sign on the way to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service building in Ottawa in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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The Canadian Security Intelligence Service and Public Safety Canada lacked a system for tracking who received and read specific intelligence on foreign interference, creating “unacceptable gaps in accountability,” the national spy watchdog has found.

In a report made public on May 27, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency also said CSIS’s dissemination of intelligence on political foreign interference was inconsistent during the last two general elections.