Creation of CSIS did nothing to make Canada safer, says ex-Mountie

Ottawa: Stripping the RCMP of responsibility for intelligence-gathering and handing the job over to CSIS made Canada a more dangerous place, not a safer one, says a former senior Mountie.
Henry Jensen, testifying Wednesday at the public inquiry into the Air India bombing, stopped short of drawing a direct link between the creation of CSIS in'84 and the terrorist attack that ensued the following year. But he painted a rosy picture of the way intelligence operations had been run under the RCMP, and contrasted that with the difficulties that plagued the new regime.
Rivalry between CSIS and the Mounties has been widely blamed for the failure to head off the Air India attack, and for recurring problems that dogged the criminal investigation that followed.
When Major raised the issue, Jensen was quick to absolve his former police colleagues and put the blame squarely on the other side for precipitating the turf war.
07/03/07 CP/Winnipeg Free Press, Canada

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Categories: Air India Mar 2007, Foreign Mar 2007, Safety Mar 2007