by Janice Tibbetts
Source: Canwest News Service
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Date: June 30, 2009


OTTAWA — Lawyers for two foreign terror suspects said Tuesday the cases against the men should be dropped in light of new revelations that Canada's spy agency admitted, for the second time in a month, that its intelligence sources were tainted.

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service's faulty information indicates there is a systemic problem with the agency's credibility that further undermines the secretive federal program of issuing security certificates, say lawyers Lorne Waldman and Norm Boxall.

"It is obviously a very, very serious problem and it goes to the heart of the administration of justice," said Waldman.

He will ask a judge next week to quash the security certificate against Hassan Almrei, a Toronto man Ottawa is seeking to deport on suspicion of having terrorist ties.

The controversial certificates allow judges to consider information behind closed doors on whether non-Canadian terror suspects should be deported.

Federal Court Justice Richard Mosley wrote Waldman this week telling him that CSIS has admitted that one of its informants against Almrei is considered "deceptive" and another source never took a lie-detector test, despite earlier CSIS assertions that he had passed.

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