Security Intelligence Review Committee (Noun)
Meaning
An agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The Security Intelligence Review Committee found that the alleged Canadian terrorist's human rights were breached due to unlawful government activities.
- Several law makers, legal advocates and ethicists say a future Parliament can reject intelligence appointments which allow their departments under suspicion with espionage within jurisdictions so critical including ours should perhaps employ wider re consideration procedures into so numerous accountability avenues that now essentially remain mostly ineffective through the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
- Critics claim the Security Intelligence Review Committee over the years since inception historically neglect oversight review of some government agencies so much that an important and integral portion of this Canadian democracy lacks consistent practical accountability.
- Terrorists and spies who are Canadian face possible intrusive violations of personal space based on being under government surveillance regulated by the Security Intelligence Review Committee.
- A security analyst said CSIS has justly faced questions from Canadians over the years regarding possibly getting outside the boundaries set by the law for surveillance, whose activities can prompt the Security Intelligence Review Committee to make and publish findings if the operations are confirmed in review to have crossed that governing line.