‘Systemic Difficulties’ Hampered Review of Canada’s Cyberspy Service: Watchdog

‘Systemic Difficulties’ Hampered Review of Canada’s Cyberspy Service: Watchdog
The Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) complex in Ottawa in a file photo. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
The Canadian Press
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OTTAWA—A culture within Canada’s cyberspy service of “resisting and impeding” independent review has frustrated efforts to ensure it is obeying the law, say newly released documents from the federal intelligence watchdog.

The unusually candid National Security and Intelligence Review Agency records from 2021 are the latest evidence of the watchdog’s irritation at trying to scrutinize the operations of the Communications Security Establishment.