RCMP commissioner to answer questions about arrested intelligence director
Posted September 17, 2019 8:59 am.
Last Updated September 17, 2019 10:19 am.
OTTAWA — Top Mountie Brenda Lucki is to address the case of the RCMP employee charged with trying to disclose secret information on Tuesday.
The force’s commissioner is giving a news conference at the force’s headquarters in suburban Ottawa at 1 p.m. local time.
Cameron Jay Ortis, 47, faces charges under the Security of Information Act as well as two Criminal Code provisions for allegedly trying to disclose classified material to a foreign entity or terrorist group.
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Ortis, who was director general of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-ordination Centre, began his career with the Mounties in 2007 after earning a doctorate in political science.
Lucki says the force is trying to assess and deal with the damage that might have been caused.
She’s promising to update the public on the investigation and to take questions for the first time since Ortis was arrested last Friday.
