The Globe and Mail this past week has continued its ongoing barrage of endless baseless accusations, innuendos and lies made against me as it has for many years. The failure to report in a fair and responsible manner has not only hurt me in unimaginable ways, it has gravely impacted my family and friends.
In its most recent article, the Globe relies on still unidentified rogue CSIS “sources” for its story. As demonstrated by the Globe’s own admission that the story is founded on a violation of federal Canadian law, this law breaking reporting is especially concerning given how the Globe has acquiesced to such activity by utilizing inaccurate, tainted, and of course, illegally obtained “intelligence”. Such knowing participation in furtherance of these criminal acts has been exacerbated by the Globe’s selective reporting and outright failure to fairly and accurately report on the truth of the matter.
Leaving aside CSIS’s outright abuses committed against me and my family in its infiltration of my life as a private citizen (and defiling the sanctity of my home in the process), the obvious question that remains unanswered, or has simply been ignored, is the result of the 14 years of surveillance activities by CSIS. What did they find? What have I done wrong? The clear answer to these questions, strangely have not been addressed, nor mentioned in any reporting.
With all of these countless “investigations”, hundreds of press reports, millions of social media circulations, NOTHING has been found and neither has ONE SHRED of evidence that I had done anything improper been produced. Moreover, after I testified voluntarily and under oath at the Hogue Commission this past summer and opened myself up to cross-examination by Commission counsel, my political adversaries and CSIS itself, none of this was reported on either.
Rather, the recent article highlights CSIS employees who sought to wiretap me and the challenges they had to get a warrant, which was obtained on the basis that I engineered the removal of former MP Geng Tan, in favor of MP Han Dong as the Liberal candidate in Don Valley North, and that this somehow proved and perpetuated the narrative to give the impression that I was/am an “agent” of the Chinese government.
As has been known since the Report of the Right Honourable David Johnston last year – and confirmed by government officials in testimony earlier this year – Mr. Tan was removed by the Liberal party of Canada as a candidate without any involvement by me. MP Dong testified to this, and I testified to this as well.
If there were any concerns relating to Mr. Tan, CSIS could have easily gotten the straight truth from the government or me years ago. Instead, false evidence was filed to get a wiretap, and then this story of the wiretap based on the corrupted (and maliciousness) CSIS “leakers” shows up in this crazy article.
Just as painful is CSIS as an organization allowing itself to become a tool of special interest agendas and partisan politics by permitting its agents to conspire with compromised individuals to produce unreliable leaked (and continuously leaked) “intelligence” into the public sphere. By not doing anything to stop the dissemination of proven lies, and also failing to find the leakers despite a government directive to do so, the competence of CSIS must too be called into question.
At the end of the day, what we know is this: some (anonymous) CSIS officials have and continue to break the law, and there are many actors (including the Globe) who are aware and have participated in this criminality. This is the real scandal … and to this end, I would call on the government to start an inquiry into the competency of CSIS. I would call on the appropriate law enforcement agencies to look into the breaches of the Security of Information Act, including those who have knowingly accepted and used illegally obtained information; and to prosecute all such entities to the full extent of the law.