Sunday 29 July 2012

Watchdog warns over extending spies' power

Watchdog warns over extending spies' power:

"Australia's intelligence watchdog has declared she is on the lookout for whether a proposal to embark upon one of the biggest expansions of security powers in a decade will lead to an imbalance between state power and private rights."

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Delisle Spy Case: Australia's known spy scandals, with Canadian connections, too | Full Comment | National Post

Delisle Spy Case: Australia's known spy scandals, with Canadian connections, too | Full Comment | National Post:

"As the trial of Jeffrey Delisle, Canadian Navy officer and alleged spy, resumes in Halifax, plausible reports have been emerging that the information reportedly improperly distributed by Delisle may have compromised Australian intelligence operations. The facility that Delisle worked at is involved in a little-known multi-lateral security agreement among the Anglosphere powers — the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. If Delisle was indeed providing information to a foreign power, believed to be Russia, there’s every reason to believe that some of that information may have originated in, or concerned, Australia."

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