Security intelligence agencies are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. Stop an act of violence from happening and they are called overbearing: fail to do so and they are called incompentent.
In this podcast Borealis pushes back that the US intelligence community ‘failed’ on January 6.
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Quick Hits 144 – Why do we have intelligence if it is not acted on?
Former CSIS analyst Phil Gurski looks at how intelligence failures are anything but.

Quick Hits 143 – Is Canada’s terrorist listing process politically motivated?
New information has surfaced that pressure was brought to name the Proud Boys despite a lack of evidence.

Quick Hits 142 – So now the Canadian government is telling us what it terrorism and what is not?
The debate over the events of Jan 6 in Washington continues. Was it terrorism? A riot? A coup?

How to secure the U.S. Capitol without a fence
U.S. Capitol Police want to build a permanent fence around the building to enhance security after the Jan. 6 insurrection.