Gurski: What does it take to run Canada's spy agency?

The next CSIS boss needs deep experience, and teaching skills: few bureaucrats or MPs understand intelligence, threats or dangers to Canada.

Not surprisingly, a country’s security service lives in the shadows. By definition, the techniques used to collect intelligence need to remain secret and a lot of information must stay out of the public eye.  The downside, of course, is that the average citizen thinks it is all James Bond stuff (it really is not). Read More