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A civil liberties group says it’s being kept in the dark as a federal watchdog begins looking at whether the Canadian Security Intelligence Service went too far in eyeing environmental activists.

CSIS has disclosed very little information heading into three days of Security Intelligence Review Committee hearings about the complaint from the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association, said Paul Champ, lawyer for the association.

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“It’s going to make it very difficult,” Champ said in an interview. “This kind of process is always shadow-boxing for a complainant. But here you’re shadow-boxing with the lights turned out. There’s not even shadows there, because we don’t know what CSIS’s case is.”

The association filed a complaint with the review committee in February 2014 after media reports suggested that CSIS and other government agencies considered opposition to the petroleum industry a threat to national security.