Ottawa , Canada ( CNN ) -- Scrupulously silent in public but colorfully candid in person , the former head of Canada 's spy agency did n't hold back in a meeting with a senior U.S. State Department official in July 2008 . It was a meeting that he had assumed would stay private and the content classified . According to the cable marked `` secret , '' but now part of the WikiLeaks document dump , Jim Judd admits his spy agency , the Canadian Security Intelligence Service , or CSIS , was `` increasingly distracted from its mission by legal challenges that could endanger foreign intelligence-sharing with Canadian agencies . '' According to the cable , he complains about Canadians having an `` Alice in Wonderland ' world view and goes on to describe Canadian courts `` whose judges have tied CSIS 'in knots , ' making it ever more difficult to detect and prevent terror attacks in Canada and abroad . '' `` The situation , he commented , left government security agencies on the defensive and losing public support for their effort to protect Canada and its allies , '' the U.S. cable says . A Canadian court had earlier that year agreed to release a videotaped interrogation of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr , who recently pleaded guilty to murder in a special military hearing at Guantanamo . Of the video release , the cable states that Judd told the State Department that `` a videotaped recording of a tearful Omar Khadr at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay would trigger `` knee-jerk anti-Americanism '' and `` paroxysms of moral outrage , a Canadian specialty . '' Judd is now retired . The formerly secret WikiLeaks cable has sent Canada into damage control . Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said at a press conference Monday that `` these leaked documents that pertain to Canada are in my view ... not something that will harm our relations . I do find it deplorable , though , that documents are leaked in this fashion '' U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton contacted Cannon over the weekend to brief him on the Canadian disclosures in the WikiLeaks documents . WikiLeaks says it has more than 2,000 documents that pertain to Canada , most of which have not yet been released . Intriguingly , this cable from July 2008 refers to Canada 's spy agency agreeing to open a channel to Iran 's Intelligence service , but added that it was something Judd has not yet `` figured out . '' Also in the cable is a reference to Judd saying his spy agency `` responded to recent , non-specific intelligence on possible terror operations by 'vigorously harassing ' known Hezbollah members in Canada . ''
Jim Judd : Canadians have an `` Alice in Wonderland ' world view . Judges tied the Canadian intelligence service in knots , he says . Canada 's foreign affairs minister calls the document leak `` deplorable ''