CSIS Had Role in Man's Mistreatment:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/02/23/csis-egypt.html
"In his report released in Oct 2008, Iacobucci concluded that the 3 men were indeed tortured. He also said the actions of the RCMP and CSIS indirectly led to the torture..."
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Thanks for the heads-up, NDPP. The part of that report that is new, but very frustratingly reported there, is this:
That means we all have to go back and refresh our memories about where the legal wrangle had got to. Gah. To their credit, the CBC give us links to docs, so maybe the answers are in there.
The broad outlines of Iacobucci's judgement were already known. To me, he was still very limited in his judgement if he thinks CSIS is culpable only indirectly and for not having informed relevant departments. Participating at all in an interrogation process where torture has been used before and may/will be used again, without any attempt to get the victim out, is itself a crime in international law, and CSIS have done that repeatedly, with and without government knowledge.
I can't believe it! Surely no one who supports our spies would make such accusations!
Here's the doc (pdf), btw. It's only 14 pp, and most of that is background.
And here's a clearer news summary from the CP.
The only news is that CSIS agents travelled to Egypt to interview Elmaati; they didn't consider the effect their questions and visit might have on the treatment he would receive from the Egyptians (although we already sort of knew that); and they didn't inform DFAIT before they went, only afterwards. Also, both CSIS and RCMP agents told Iacobucci that they didn't consider the human-rights situation of detainees to be their responsibility, but DFAIT's. And in theory, those problems have already been addressed by new agreements between DFAIT and the two services, which we also already knew in outline.