Security Intelligence Review Committee / Comité de surveillance des activités de renseignement de sécurité
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Security Intelligence Review Committee

Annual Report 2004-2005 - An Operational Review of CSIS Activities

Contents

Statement from the Committee

About this Report

How this Report is Organized
Identifying SIRC Studies: Choices and Challenges

Section 1: A Year in Review 2004-2005

  1. Reviews of CSIS Security Intelligence Activities
    Overview: How SIRC Carries Out its Review Function
    SIRC Reviews in 2004-2005
    Review of the Terrorist Entity Listing Process
    Review of CSIS's Investigation of Transnational Criminal Activity
    Review of a Counter-Terrorism Investigation
    Review of Activities and Investigations in a CSIS Regional Office
    Review of a Counter-Proliferation Investigation
    Review of CSIS's Information Operations Centre
    Review of CSIS's Exchanges of Information with Close Allies
    Review of a Counter-Intelligence Investigation
    Terrorist Financing Activities in Canada
    CSIS Liaison with Foreign Agencies: Review of a Security Liaison Post
    Review of Foreign Arrangements
  2. Investigation of Complaints
    Reports of Decisions: Case Histories
  3. Section 54 Report to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness

Section 2: CSIS Accountability Mechanisms

  1. Reporting Requirements
    Certificate of the Inspector General for 2004
    CSIS Director's Annual Operational Report 2003–2004
    Unlawful Conduct by CSIS
    Section 2(d) Investigations
    Disclosures of Information in the Public or National Interest
  2. Policy and Governance Framework
    Annual National Requirements for Security Intelligence
    Ministerial Direction
    Governor-in-Council Regulations and Appointments
    Changes in CSIS Operational Policy
  3. CSIS Operational Activities
    Counter Proliferation
    Counter Terrorism
    Counter Intelligence
    Research, Analysis and Production (RAP) Branch
    Security Screening
    CSIS Domestic Arrangements
    Federal Court Warrants and Warrant Statistics

Section 3: Want to Know More? An Overview of SIRC

Committee Membership
Staffing and Organization
Research and Review Activities
Security Intelligence Briefings
Additional Committee Activities
Budget and Expenditures
Inquiries Under the Access to Information and Privacy Acts
Modern Comptrollership

Appendix A: Acronyms

Appendix B: SIRC Reports and Studies Since 1984

Appendix C: Key Findings and Recommendations

Review of the Terrorist Entity Listing Process
Review of CSIS's Investigation of Transnational Criminal Activity
Review of a Counter-Terrorism Investigation
Review of Activities and Investigations in a CSIS Regional Office
Review of a Counter-Proliferation Investigation
Review of CSIS's Information Operations Centre
Review of CSIS's Exchanges of Information with Close Allies
Review of a Counter-Intelligence Investigation.
Terrorist Financing Activities in Canada
CSIS Liaison with Foreign Agencies: Review of a Security Liaison Post.
Review of Foreign Arrangements