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Storm and lightning over a dark intelligence headquarters, with redacted SECRET files and a magnifying glass, under the headline What Is CSIS Still Hiding?

What Is CSIS Still Hiding? The Intelligence Operations Behind the Secrecy

CSIS told the Information Commissioner its records touch “ongoing investigations and intelligence operations.” Equibit Group on eight candidate operations: the CSIS Act’s powers fit them, the target does not, and why courts must order production.

Eight Red Flags in the Multi-Year Campaign Against Equibit

Court filings in the Equibit lawsuit set out eight red flags: regulatory entrapment, a missing developer and source code, technical compromises, de-banking, impersonation sites, search manipulation, a set-aside judgment, and the OIC record.

Five Things the OIC Final Report Established That Contradict CSIS’s Position

Five points in the Information Commissioner’s final report on Chris Horlacher’s CSIS access request stand in direct tension with the Attorney General’s defence in the Equibit lawsuit.

Four Critical Failures in the Handling of the Default Judgment Against Sergei Sachkov

In 2022 Equibit Group obtained default judgment against Sergei Sachkov for $1,744,711. Justice Merritt set that judgment aside. Four failures in the endorsement — straw-man “admission,” misattributed allegation, chronological impossibility, and a total failure to inquire — are now the subject of Canadian Judicial Council file 26-0478.

A True Story of Dystopian Tyranny — Chris Horlacher on The Drew Treglia Show

Equibit Group Ltd. shares Chris Horlacher’s appearance on The Drew Treglia Show. The episode is one of the fuller single-sitting accounts of the Equibit lawsuit timeline.

The ATIP and OIC Experience: CSIS Hindrance, Foreign Intelligence, and Ongoing Investigations

Chris Horlacher’s ATIP requests to CSIS, the OIC complaint, and the Commissioner’s final report — including improperly withheld records, foreign-source material, and CSIS’s own claim of ongoing investigations.

Default Judgment Against Sergei Sachkov Overturned

Justice Merritt’s 12 May 2023 endorsement set aside the noting in default and the judgments obtained against Sergei Sachkov. The Divisional Court refused leave on 13 October 2023. The factual problems in the endorsement are set out in Four Critical Failures and in the CJC complaint.