Lawyer for alleged extremist recruiter questions basis of CSIS warrant
OTTAWA — Canada’s spy agency obtained a warrant to monitor accused extremist recruiter Awso Peshdary based on misleading information, says a lawyer for the Ottawa man.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service warrant should be tossed out because the application for surveillance painted a false picture of both Peshdary and a spy service source, lawyer Fady Mansour told a Federal Court judge Friday.
It was the latest move in an ongoing effort by Mansour and co-counsel Solomon Friedman to pick apart the case against Peshdary, arrested on terrorism charges three years ago.
Federal lawyer Andre Seguin told Justice James O’Reilly the arguments fall far short of the legal threshold for overturning a warrant authorization.