National security world tends to promote secrecy over transparency, professor warns
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OTTAWA — A law professor is warning the federal inquiry into foreign interference that there’s a tendency in the national security realm to prioritize secrecy over transparency.
University of Calgary professor Michael Nesbitt says security agency employees are typically warned about penalties for improperly disclosing secrets, but rarely is there punishment for failing to be fully transparent.
The inquiry’s first hearings, taking place this week, are focused on the preliminary point of how to make information about foreign meddling public, even though much of it comes from classified documents and sources.
On Monday, a lawyer for the commission warned that the sophisticated spy agencies of Canada’s adversaries will be closely watching the federal inquiry for every bit of information they can exploit.
