WikiLeaks: CSIS 'vigorously harassing' Hezbollah members

[CHIMO]

Source: Globe and Mail Update

Canada’s spies have developed an intelligence channel into Iran, have been ‘vigorously harassing’ Hezbollah operatives inside Canada, and had also foreseen – but could not prevent – a jailbreak of Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan, according to a new WikiLeaks disclosure.

Yet even as Canadian Intelligence Security Service agents were training their eyes and ears outward, at home, the spy service loudly lamented its operations being were being increasingly hamstrung by an “Alice in Wonderland” Canadian court system.

These are extraordinary disclosures that amount to a rare insight into how CSIS gathers intelligence, assesses threats, and feels about the world. The irony is that CSIS, which goes to the wall to prevent leaks of American intelligence, has had its secrets revealed through a dump of more than 250,000 U.S diplomatic cables.

Specific CSIS operations are almost never revealed to the public, yet the WikiLeaks disclosure highlights many. These disclosures could imperil the methods and sources that Canada's spy service has clandestinely cultivated to protect national security.



Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/wikileaks-csis-vigorously-harassing-hezbollah-members/article1818071/

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The neo-con government of Canada, aka Bush/Tea party/GOP, know of Hezbollah operatives, a terror group according to them, and allow them to operate!

[aranthus]

1. Where do you get that Canada is allowing Hezbollah to operate?

That does not appear to be in the article that you posted.

[CHIMO]

2. They Are Harrasing them. Not arresting them.

It's simple. Arrest them.

[aquart]

3. On. What. Grounds?

Not a friend of Hezbullah but real big on equal protection of the law.

[CHIMO]

5. Because

They are Hezbullah.

If they are members then arrest them.

But then they would have to prove that they are members. That might be a problem.

So make the accusation and it leaves them in limbo.

It is much similar to the 1950's.

Make the allegation and then let the system wear them down.

[aquart]

10. Since my family was a victim of that, I vote against it.

"Because" ain't a reason.

[shaayecanaan]

6. Their activities are mainly fundraising...

Hezbollah have bagmen in most countries with a significant Lebanese diaspora, including Canada, the US and Brazil. Just about everyone has bagmen in the US, the main fundraising base for Jewish terrorist groups such as Kach is the US as well.

Its always been a bone of contention that western intelligence agencies sometimes hassle Islamic bagmen but generally ignore IRA bagmen and just about everyone else. Anti-Iranian terrorists such as MeK are able to fundraise in America with virtual impunity.

[CHIMO]

7. They

Are listed as a terrorist organisation. If they know someone is a member then they should be arrested. Period.

To claim that they are harassing ghosts is simply selling bridges in deserts.

[Arrowhead2k1]

8. Where's the proof that anyone is a "member" of Hezbollah?

You kind of have to have evidence in order to arrest someone for a crime if you intend on scoring actual convictions...

[shaayecanaan]

9. Arrest them and do what with them?

You don't need much skill to be a bagman. If you can figure out how to mail an envelope or do a wire transfer you're in business.

Anyone who gets arrested can easily be replaced. None of the bagmen will know anything of worth about the organisation itself.

Arresting bagmen is the equivalent of jailing hookers or low-level drug dealers. You can do it all day and go home hungry.

[DissedByBush]

4. They're harrassing terrorists? Oh, the horror!

Next thing you know they'll be speaking harsh words to them.

These inhumane actions cannot be allowed to continue!