David Johnston found serious problems with how highly sensitive intelligence is shared in his first report on foreign meddling
Consumers is the standard lingo in the intelligence world. There are many consumers at different levels of government — from a senior official in a government department to the prime minister or PMO. The problem is that the system as it’s set out, or the part that is referring to, essentially involves “mailing” intelligence reports to mailboxes.
JOHNSTON: Staff at the PMO speak of being given a large binder in a secure room with an agency client relations officer present, a short time to review it, with no context or prioritization of the material, and no ability to take notes . The binder may have a significant mix of topics from around the world, and no one says, “you should pay attention to this issue in particular.” If staffers are away, they may not see the binder that day.It’s a real scenario.
JOHNSTON: The current arrangements can lead to situations where information that should be brought to the attention of a minister or the prime minister does not reach them because it can be lost in the sea of material that floats through the government. At the same time, other material is not brought to the attention of a minister or the prime minister because it is judged in isolation not to be sufficiently reliable or actionable to warrant briefing to that level….
JOHNSTON: I should note that the prime minister asserted that the fact that he or a minister does not get a particular piece of information does not mean that the system is not working; it means that the information was not credible or serious enough that it required his or the minister’s attention. That is often true, but it is not true in all cases. We have seen intelligence that should have at least made it to the ministerial level that the relevant minister did not see.
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