OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence and Canadian Forces are suing an intelligence watchdog to prevent it from releasing without further redactions a review that found that some of their human intelligence source handling activities may break the law.

In a lawsuit filed in late August, both federal bodies requested a Federal Court judge quash the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency’s (NSIRA) decision to release a redacted version of a 2023 review under access to information laws.

They argue that NSIRA acted “unreasonably” when it did not implement all their requested redactions to what they say is information injurious to national defence or protected by solicitor-client privilege.

The 2023 report at issue cast a critical look on the Department of National Defence’s

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