I can say categorically that this was never the position of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

I don't think so. Whatever went on in the minds of Syrian military intelligence officials I really can't speak to.

Whenever we get this kind of intelligence, we regularly share that with our homeland security advisers in every state so they have the same information we have, ... But whenever it is nonspecific, that means it is difficult to mount an operational response. And so we share the information -- we don't raise the threat level.

Customer service is at the top of his list, after security.

He's sitting in a ... maximum security cell, while members of the intelligence community, some of which are only tangentially connected to this, are essentially free to say what they want.

We know that there was a massive security failure, and despite repeated warnings by U.S. intelligence, the Saudis did not take adequate measures, ... This was wrong, and it was preventable.