News you may have missed #397

• Canadian spies heading overseas to learn Arabic, director says. Canadian spies are heading overseas to take Arabic lessons, according to Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Richard Fadden, who says the spy agency will send officers to “a country which will remain nameless” to learn the language.
• NSA denies monitoring US civilian networks. In a rare public statement, the ultra-secret US National Security Agency has denied a Wall Street Journal report of a secret program, code-named “Perfect Citizen”, which will allegedly be monitoring civilian networks in the US.