A very sad story, indeed. I wonder if his motivation will ever be fully understood. What a waste of an obviously brilliant and talented mind. Great reporting on this, Wesley.
Indeed, thank you for your insight on this matter. It's an astounding case, and our judicial system passed with flying colors, thank god. Many people are calling Cameron Ortis a "traitor to Canada" for leaking secrets. It's a very strong word. I'm quite sad that brilliant and talented mind has been wasted on this endeavour. The pathological litany of lies seemed to be neverending in this case. I wonder how his defense ferreted out the truth from him? I wonder if a forensic psych would find anything regarding this motive? Narcissism? Controlling? Pathological lying?
Prof Wark, as always, highlights a number of salient points.
The structural conflicts between the practice and cultures of intelligence gathering, analysis and dissemination (CSIS) and federal policing (RCMP) remain complex. Why our British allies have succeeded in this regard with Special Branch working hand in hand with the Security Service (MI-5) and we have often failed in our framework alludes me.
And if one adds GAC’s apparently failed return to the intelligence domain after losing the bulk of their assets to the PCO’s IAS decades ago and we have what appears to be a perpetual comedy of errors. How sad for a G7, 5 eyes (still), NATO (barely) nation!
Good reporting. Two issues remain for me: 1)There appears to have not been much oversight of Mr Ortis by his RCMP superiors, true? 2) While I comprend national security rules to an extent, the rules preventing him from identifying his foreign source (“..moles in the GRC..”) seemed to prevent him from having all the defence he needed. Could the foreign information source have pointed at his chain of command?
A very sad story, indeed. I wonder if his motivation will ever be fully understood. What a waste of an obviously brilliant and talented mind. Great reporting on this, Wesley.
Indeed, thank you for your insight on this matter. It's an astounding case, and our judicial system passed with flying colors, thank god. Many people are calling Cameron Ortis a "traitor to Canada" for leaking secrets. It's a very strong word. I'm quite sad that brilliant and talented mind has been wasted on this endeavour. The pathological litany of lies seemed to be neverending in this case. I wonder how his defense ferreted out the truth from him? I wonder if a forensic psych would find anything regarding this motive? Narcissism? Controlling? Pathological lying?
Prof Wark, as always, highlights a number of salient points.
The structural conflicts between the practice and cultures of intelligence gathering, analysis and dissemination (CSIS) and federal policing (RCMP) remain complex. Why our British allies have succeeded in this regard with Special Branch working hand in hand with the Security Service (MI-5) and we have often failed in our framework alludes me.
And if one adds GAC’s apparently failed return to the intelligence domain after losing the bulk of their assets to the PCO’s IAS decades ago and we have what appears to be a perpetual comedy of errors. How sad for a G7, 5 eyes (still), NATO (barely) nation!
Good reporting. Two issues remain for me: 1)There appears to have not been much oversight of Mr Ortis by his RCMP superiors, true? 2) While I comprend national security rules to an extent, the rules preventing him from identifying his foreign source (“..moles in the GRC..”) seemed to prevent him from having all the defence he needed. Could the foreign information source have pointed at his chain of command?