David Harris in Ottawa Citizen on Khawaja trial. "The enemy within"

When the first trial under Canada's Terrorism Act opened in Ottawa, the other day, we posted on the remarkable ability of the defendant, Momin Khawaja, an IT contractor, to penetrate the resources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to engage in communications and contact with terrorist 'colleagues' abroad in the UK and Thailand. The lurking fear is two fold. How far did Khawaja invade encrypted counter terrorism and intelligence data bases, including those shared with MI-5 in the U.K. and the FBI, here in the U.S.? Further, as in a John le Carre novels about Soviet-era mole hunter George Smiley, how many other Al Qaeda, Hamas and Hizbullah agents lurk inside the Canadian diplomatic, counter terrorism, and national security agencies? ...