Canadian spy agency stops publicizing annual priorities | iPolitics

OTTAWA ? The curtains at Canada?s most secretive federal agency have been drawn a little tighter.

The government has quietly stopped telling Canadians about the annual priorities of the national electronic eavesdropping agency ??meaning scant details of its mission, once public, are now classified.

Ottawa-based Communications Security Establishment Canada has the dual role of monitoring foreign computer, satellite, radio and telephone traffic, as well as helping protect federal computer systems.

For years, a section of the Defence Department?s annual plans and priorities report spelled out the agency?s priorities.

Last year those priorities included a focus on Canada?s mission in Afghanistan, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, foreign espionage and interference, and the federal government?s northern Canada strategy.

As a result of federal organizational changes, CSE will now produce its own plans and priorities report, performance report and annual report ??but none will be published.

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Source: http://www.ipolitics.ca/2012/07/25/canadian-spy-agency-stops-publicizing-annual-priorities/

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