The prime minister’s former top adviser on matters of intelligence, Jody Thomas, said she was not responsible for two major reports about Chinese interference not being distributed to senior levels of government.
Thomas, who served as National Security and Intelligence Advisor (NSIA) until January, testified at the Foreign Interference Commission on Oct. 9. In her role as NSIA, Thomas made decisions that impacted the distribution of the reports.
She said in one case it was not her responsibility to approve an intelligence assessment produced by the Privy Council Office’s Intelligence Assessment Secretariat (PCO-IAS) in late 2021. The document was known as the “Special Report” on “China’s Foreign Interference Activities.”…