Johnston Report Notes Systemic Obstacles in Getting Intel to Policy-Makers

Johnston Report Notes Systemic Obstacles in Getting Intel to Policy-Makers
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau thumbs through the “First Report” by David Johnston, special rapporteur on foreign Interference, during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 23, 2023. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
Noé Chartier
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Special Rapporteur David Johnston says the Liberal government didn’t negligently fail to act on intelligence regarding the threat of foreign interference, but he highlighted problems surrounding the dissemination of intelligence within the state machinery.

“There are serious shortcomings in the way intelligence is communicated and processed from security agencies through to government,” he wrote in one of the five conclusions of his first report on May 23.
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Noé Chartier is a senior reporter with the Canadian edition of The Epoch Times. Twitter: @NChartierET
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