No matter how you look at it, the tale of Arthur Porter going to his reward in a Panama prison is AAA headline material.
He was scheduled to be shipped back to Canada, was he not? And who knows what upheaval loose lips might have unleashed, mere months before Big Steve expects to be re-elected.
Thank God he has so conveniently expired in the nick of time!
Funny how this story doesn't seem to get much traction here in Canada...
Showing posts with label Arthur Porter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arthur Porter. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Oh Jeez... maybe Arthur Porter really did have cancer?
Arthur Porter was, among many other things, Big Steve's hand-picked top civilian over-seer of Canada's intelligence agency, CSIS.
That all went south in a hurry, and with virtually no comment by Canadian media, once Porter got entangled in the graft/bribery/corruption stink around the new Montreal Hospital.
In fact, Steve's boy didn't just get "entangled," he was pretty much the architect of the entire scandal.
In any other country, having your top spy overlord exposed as a fraud would generate endless headlines for a long time.
In Canada, the Bell-Postmedia-Rogers holy trinity who manage the news don't see anything newsworthy about Arthur and his banishment to the wilderness from the innermost circles of the Harper gang.
Anyway, you had a good run, Mr. Porter.
RIP
That all went south in a hurry, and with virtually no comment by Canadian media, once Porter got entangled in the graft/bribery/corruption stink around the new Montreal Hospital.
In fact, Steve's boy didn't just get "entangled," he was pretty much the architect of the entire scandal.
In any other country, having your top spy overlord exposed as a fraud would generate endless headlines for a long time.
In Canada, the Bell-Postmedia-Rogers holy trinity who manage the news don't see anything newsworthy about Arthur and his banishment to the wilderness from the innermost circles of the Harper gang.
Anyway, you had a good run, Mr. Porter.
RIP
Thursday, June 18, 2015
Senator caught with pants down
I see where yet another Harper appointee to the Senate has returned the favor by publicly disgracing both himself and the man who appointed him.
Who does this guy think he is? Berlusconi?
Where does Big Steve find these guys? Obviously the background checks leave a little to be desired. Maybe the PMO and the RCMP were too busy figuring out ways to keep Omar Khadr behind bars to do the necessary due diligence on Bruce Carson, Arthur Porter, Patrick Brazeau, and now Senator Don Meredith.
Reading Meredith's Wikipedia page you quickly realize Mr. Meredith may or may not be a man of God, a Doctor, and a university graduate. You would think that degree of ambiguity in the man's background would raise some red flags.
Who does this guy think he is? Berlusconi?
Where does Big Steve find these guys? Obviously the background checks leave a little to be desired. Maybe the PMO and the RCMP were too busy figuring out ways to keep Omar Khadr behind bars to do the necessary due diligence on Bruce Carson, Arthur Porter, Patrick Brazeau, and now Senator Don Meredith.
Reading Meredith's Wikipedia page you quickly realize Mr. Meredith may or may not be a man of God, a Doctor, and a university graduate. You would think that degree of ambiguity in the man's background would raise some red flags.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Bill C-51 will just drag Canada deeper into the world of state-sponsored terror
Interesting story afloat today about whether the foreign agent arrested in Turkey on suspicion of shepherding foreigners into the Islamic State might have links to CSIS, Canada's spy agency. For my money, the weasel-speak coming out of Ottawa as the Harperites deny these shocking allegations is less than reassuring.
The previous day saw a story in the Toronto Star detailing the collusion between CSIS and the FBI in their attempted set up of the so-called VIA Rail bombers, especially the third member of this "terror team," one Ahmed Abassi. Most of that story was made public by the Washington Post last summer. What should give Canadians pause is how closely not only CSIS, but virtually any federal government department, is willing to bend to the interests of Washington.
The FBI informant obviously had an unlimited budget available with which to entrap Abassi into a terror plot, and was allowed to freely operate in Canada by Canadian authorities across the security, immigration, and policing spectrum.
All of this happened without the benefit of Bill C-51, which will enhance the power of our security state.
To keep us safer, of course...
In reply to critics, the Harper gang points to the robust civilian oversight of out security apparatus.
Ya, right!
Here's the guy personally appointed by Big Steve to head up civilian oversight of CSIS from 2008 to 2011.
Arthur Porter; fraudster, quack, con-man, now cooling his heels in a Panamanian prison awaiting extradition to Canada.
That's what "robust civilian oversight" looks like to Stephen Harper.
Reassuring, eh?
The way I read it, under C-51, the next time this blog points out that Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza and Israel is morally obliged to negotiate with them, I could be found guilty of promoting terrorism. Hamas is on Ottawa's official list of terrorist entities, democracy be damned!
That's scary!
The previous day saw a story in the Toronto Star detailing the collusion between CSIS and the FBI in their attempted set up of the so-called VIA Rail bombers, especially the third member of this "terror team," one Ahmed Abassi. Most of that story was made public by the Washington Post last summer. What should give Canadians pause is how closely not only CSIS, but virtually any federal government department, is willing to bend to the interests of Washington.
The FBI informant obviously had an unlimited budget available with which to entrap Abassi into a terror plot, and was allowed to freely operate in Canada by Canadian authorities across the security, immigration, and policing spectrum.
All of this happened without the benefit of Bill C-51, which will enhance the power of our security state.
To keep us safer, of course...
In reply to critics, the Harper gang points to the robust civilian oversight of out security apparatus.
Ya, right!
Here's the guy personally appointed by Big Steve to head up civilian oversight of CSIS from 2008 to 2011.
Arthur Porter; fraudster, quack, con-man, now cooling his heels in a Panamanian prison awaiting extradition to Canada.
That's what "robust civilian oversight" looks like to Stephen Harper.
Reassuring, eh?
The way I read it, under C-51, the next time this blog points out that Hamas is the democratically elected government of Gaza and Israel is morally obliged to negotiate with them, I could be found guilty of promoting terrorism. Hamas is on Ottawa's official list of terrorist entities, democracy be damned!
That's scary!
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