CSIS admits sharing info

posted on April 09, 2005 | in Category CSIS | PermaLink

Original author: Colin Perkel and Canadian Press Source: CANOE CNEWS URL: [link] Date: April 9, 2005 CSIS

TORONTO (CP) - Canada's spy agency admits it shared information it obtained from a Canadian teen being held as an enemy combatant at Guantanamo Bay with American intelligence services, documents show. The transcripts of a cross-examination obtained by The Canadian Press also show the agency did not ask for guarantees the United States would not use the information in any prosecution that could result in the death penalty for Omar Khadr. "We did not seek those assurances," William Hooper, assistant director of operations for the Canadian Intelligence Security Service, told Khadr's lawyer during the closed-door hearing last month.

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