On March 31 , 2009 , CSIS lawyer and advisor Geoffrey O'Brian told the Committee on Public Safety and National Security that CSIS would use information obtained by torture if it could prevent another attack such as 9/11 or the Air India bombing . Testifying before the same committee two days later , Director of CSIS Jim Judd said that O'Brian " may have been confused " and " venturing into a hypothetical " , and would send the committee a clarifying letter . Two weeks later CSIS announced that Judd would be retiring in June , five months before the end of his five-year term
9/11
September 11 attacks
Canadian Security Intelligence Service