We have to stop seeing our intelligence agencies as evil actors

CSIS would not interfere in foreign elections or create fake online personas to spread disinformation. I worked there for a decade-and-a-half and, although I have been gone for five years, I am pretty sure those are not activities CSIS has engaged in, is engaging in, or will ever engage in.
CSIS Director David Vigneault has given at least one speech on what keeps him up at night. He spoke at the Economic Club of Canada on Dec. 4, 2018: here’s hoping there are more to come, writes Phil Gurski.
OTTAWA—I realize that CSIS is not well understood by most Canadians and this is of course partly by design. It is, after all, an intelligence service and it has secrets that it does not want to disclose. What intelligence agency flings its doors open for all to gawk? This is undoubtedly frustrati...

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