John Robson: Expect More CSIS Leaks Given Blair’s Inadequate Response to Latest Beijing Interference Allegations
Commentary
The disintegration continues. The latest revelation about the Trudeau Liberals’ blindness to Chinese election meddling is that then-public safety and emergency preparedness minister Bill Blair took months to grant CSIS a warrant to monitor election activities by former Ontario cabinet minister infamous for his links to communist China. And they still have no idea how to respond.
As my former Sun News colleague Alex Pierson tweeted, “Either they are complicit or incompetent. Everyday it is another jaw dropper.” To which I responded, “Of course they could be both.” And certainly, incompetence is playing a key role.
As I’ve written elsewhere, perhaps just Twitter, their immediate problem is that things are OODA control. OODA being an invention of military strategist John Boyd, a United States Air Force colonel, standing for “Observe-Orient-Decide-Act.” And Boyd’s point, since widely adopted including in places like management education that may not inspire confidence, is that if events are happening faster than you can manage this response process, you spiral into disaster….