Foreign Spies Are Watching Interference Inquiry Intently, Warns Commission Counsel

A counsel for the Public Inquiry into Foreign Interference has warned that foreign intelligence services will be paying close attention to its proceedings with the objective of extracting “every drop of value.” “I think most people would observe among the most sophisticated intelligence agencies in the world will be analyzing every bit of information that comes out of this commission of inquiry,” said commission counsel Gordon Cameron on Jan. 29. Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue in the first public hearings this week will receive testimonies from experts about how to disclose the very sensitive information the inquiry is looking into. Making as much of that information public, within legal confines, is part of the inquiry’s mandate....