He paints a deeply unsettling picture of how institutionally rotten, even sinister, British intelligence was in the run up to the war. But the architects of this calamitous war, including British spies, remain rather comfortably around, still immune from any meaningful accountability for their shockingly disastrous performance. "If Chilcot has taught us anything it’s this: a tiny parliamentary committee modeled after the British committee isn’t going to keep Canada’s spies in check," writes Andrew Mitrovica. But Chilcot goes much further in his scathing indictment of Britain’s spy chiefs. In the netherworld of the espionage business, however, the costs of making such errors can be terribly high.

Source: thestar July 11, 2016 12:01 UTC