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A judge has decided to unseal the search warrants issued to the police for the arrest of a Halifax navy intelligence officer who is awaiting sentence for selling secrets to the Russians. Last January, Sub-Lt. Jeffrey Paul Delisle was arrested and indicted with two criminal offences, namely violating the Security of Information Act and one Criminal Code for passing information to a foreign entity and breaching the trust by a public officer.
41-years-old Delisle, of Bedford, pleaded guilty to all the charges against him in October and is now awaiting his sentence by a provincial court in Halifax. The court was asked on Thursday to reveal the search warrants issued to the RCMP for arresting Delisle during the investigation. The defense attorney did not object or support the request, whereas the federal Crown agreed to release the information as long as the crucial information on it was blacked out. Monica McQueen, the Crown attorney, asserted that certain portions of the documents should be blacked out for protecting the RCMP’s investigative techniques and national security. McQueen addressed the media personalities by saying that “I think you’ll find that relatively small amounts of information have been redacted.”
The documents were handed out by the Crown then and there. It was revealed that the warrants show that Delisle could have been arrested sooner in case the military and CSIS had been obeying their own rules of routine security checks. The warrants mentioned that top-secret security clearance of Delisle failed once even before his transfer to HMCS Trinity, a highly secure naval intelligence centre in Halifax, in August 2011.
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