Original author: Andrew Duffy
Source: The Ottawa Citizen
URL: N/A
Date: October 26, 2004
'Significant incompetence' has flawed security agency's record in past
The lawyer for accused terrorist Mohamed Harkat attacked the competence and judgment of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service on the first day of what he called the "Kafkaesque" trial of his client.
"The quality of their work is sometimes unbelievably shoddy," Paul Copeland charged yesterday outside a Federal Court hearing. "From my viewing of CSIS over the 20 years it has existed, it shows, at times, some significant incompetence."
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