Source: The Edmonton Sun
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Date: May 28, 2008
OTTAWA -- A Federal Court judge is raising questions about whether Canada's spy agency has been withholding information and lying to the court in its effort to deport terrorist suspect Mohamed Harkat.
In a toughly worded judgment released yesterday, Justice Simon Noel said the "troubling situation" casts doubt on the good faith of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
The comments were sparked by a letter from government lawyers, delivered to Noel earlier this week along with a top-secret file that deals with the reliability of an informant CSIS used to help build its case against Harkat.
The letter acknowledged that the material should have been turned over earlier and that "failure to do so is a serious matter."
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