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Parliaments top-secret national security committee is launching a review into federal agencies ability to intercept private communications, on the heels of the RCMP revealing it has been using spyware as part of major investigations, for decades.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) -- Canada's federal Dudley Do-Whatevers -- is again belatedly admitting it has access to powerful surveillance tech its supposed oversight seems unaware the RCMP possessed. This is par for the RCMP course. The agency tends to admit it has surveillance tech only after extended deployment periods. And, like its…

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The RCMP says it needs to use malware because encryption has made surveillance “exponentially more difficult.”

The Biden administration just put itself on a collision course with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee over an F-16 modernization sale to Turkey — a deal the top two panel members oppose.

Paper. bill: based on that answer you hold the president responsible here clearly? >> i think the president needs to be very forceful about, he was very forceful coming out saying his folks didnt do it. great, thats fine. but now, mr. president, you need to say i will have full cooperation so you can look at my staff and the investigators can take the leads where they find them. given the senior level --. bill: why do you believe that has not happened? >> well i think i they were hoping it would...

Matters and we have to treat them serious. bill: you also know that the circle is small for those who are in the situation room. there are not many folks to point a finger at, are there? >> that list gets pretty small in a hurry and you can isolate those lists pretty quickly. there are others involved and sometimes that list can grow out. but as an investigator you always want to start where you know people had access and work your way out. if were going to have to go through a long process of n...