Spy-watchers are sounding the alarm about a growing temptation for the nation's intelligence agents to covertly "disrupt" suspected terrorists while sidestepping open processes in Canadian courts.

The Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC) urges that Public Safety Minister Vic Toews take a more hands-on role in regulating and monitoring such spy operations, to ensure that the government has "full knowledge" of what the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) gets up to.

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