Months after two passenger planes flew into the World Trade Center and another crashed into the Pentagon on 9/11, Huda Mukbil joined Canada’s spy agency as an intelligence officer. Months after a white supremacist gunned down six Quebecers praying in a Quebec City mosque in 2017, Mukbil turned whistleblower. Those 15 intervening years are captured in a recently released book that tells the story of how Canada’s first Black Arab-Canadian Muslim spy was treated at the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. He engaged Internal Security, the branch that investigates security breaches and conflicts of interest to determine employee loyalty. When Mukbil and four colleagues told CSIS they were preparing to launch a legal challenge in 2017, the agency conducted a “Workplace Climate Assessment” in the Toronto Region.

Source: thestar May 12, 2023 11:22 UTC