Foreign Correspondence

[Ace Hanlon]

Creeping Bushism in Canada


Canadian intelligence approved CIA flights, instructed officials to lie to media 24 Feb 2006 CIA planes have landed in Canada 74 times since the 2001 terror attacks, according to newly declassified government documents. The documents underscored ideas that the United States is ferrying suspected 'terrorists' through Canada on the way to foreign prisons. Internal government briefing notes revealed that senior intelligence officials from six government agencies, including the Security Intelligence Service, met in late November to discuss the flights. One memo dated Nov. 28 instructed officials to tell the media that there was "no credible information to suggest that these planes were used to ferry suspected terrorists to and from Canada, or that illegal activity took place."