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Bureaucrats in PCO objected to partisan Cdn Ec. Action plan: http://is.gd/a5Jyh (Everyone seems to be leaking stories these days) 12 hours ago
..to get information Cdn officals could not obtain (ie using torture) and he instead hid behind the troops and didnt give a direct answer. 13 hours ago
Very interesting: Justice minister Nicholson had a chance on a yes or no answer to deny Cdn officials were handing over prisoners.. 13 hours ago
RT @jamesbow: why not release the mandate of the man investigating [afghan docs]? http://j.mp/9kowgy 14 hours ago
who wants 2 start the FB group? :) RT @impolitical: RT @stribe39 I think @RosieBarton shld get her own show to host on #CBC 16 hours ago

The detainee document story continues to grow.

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 9, 2010, at 11:37 am |

CBC has been doing a bang-up job the last few days on the Afghan detainee documents; the latest revelations was on the 5 pm Power and Politics show yesterday detailing the Conservative government’s plan for PR if torture allegations came to light or even were confirmed:

(H/T Scott Ross for the video)

On another note, it looks [...]

Would Harper rather go to an election then release the detainee docs?

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 8, 2010, at 12:11 pm |

There are rumours and quotations from unnamed PMO staffers that if push came to shove, Harper and the Conservatives would rather dissolve Parliament and call an election over the issue of turning over the unredacted Afghanistan detainee documents if they were found in contempt of Parliament and/or the Speaker issued a Warrant ordering the documents [...]

CSIS involved in interrogating/transferring of Afghan detainees

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 7, 2010, at 5:38 pm |

In the wake of Friday’s allegations from Professor Attaran that Canada turned over prisoners to Afghanistan knowing they’d be tortured in order to get intelligence out of them, this report from the Canadian Press today adds even more fuel to the demands for a full fledged public inquiry and/or the Conservative government turning over all unredacted [...]

In light of CBC report, demand full document release now.

Posted by Scott Tribe on March 6, 2010, at 11:13 am |

This rather explosive allegation was on CBC news last night – that Canadian officials not only knew some Afghan prisoners were being tortured, but they WANTED some of them to be tortured to glean “intelligence” and information out of them:

Federal government documents on Afghan detainees suggest that Canadian officials intended some prisoners to be tortured [...]

Conservatives talking out of both sides of their mouth

Posted by Scott Tribe on February 3, 2010, at 11:59 am |

Michael Ignatieff came out yesterday with a strongly worded appeal to the Prime Minister to support safe abortion and family planning programs abroad if he was serious about wanting to aid in improving the lives of women overseas.

One of the PMO’s spokespersons, or at least a spokesperson for Harper, came back with this [...]

If no one cares about detainee issue, Mr Harper, then release the uncensored documents

Posted by Scott Tribe on January 5, 2010, at 8:09 pm |

Harper came out on his CBC interview with Peter Mansbridge tonight claiming that the Canadian public “don’t care” about the issue.

Well, Mr Harper, if people don’t care, then there should be no reason for you to not hand over the documents to Parliament and by proxy the Afghanistan Committee – as voted on and [...]

Continued bad optics for the Conservatives re: Afghanistan Committee

Posted by Scott Tribe on December 21, 2009, at 5:31 pm |

#1 Bad optic – The Conservatives will continue to boycott the Afghanistan Committee investigating the Afghan detainee situation, meaning there will be no quorum and no formal hearing, renewing the charges of this government trying to coverup and squelch the truth over this messy affair for them.

#2 Bad optic: That hasn’t stopped the opposition members [...]

My vote for Canadian Newsmaker of the year (and other related items)

Posted by Scott Tribe on December 17, 2009, at 1:40 pm |

If I had a vote for that (and yes, why don’t we also make it for Canadian Of The Year as suggested here), it would be without a doubt cast for Canadian diplomat/intelligence officer Richard Colvin. His brave decision to testify (in the face of Conservative government threats to the public service not to cooperate [...]

Colvin returns fire.

Posted by Scott Tribe on December 16, 2009, at 1:13 pm |

Diplomat and intelligence officer Richard Colvin sent forth his detailed counter-rebuttal to the government’s talking points and friendly witnesses that tried to discredit his testimony to the House of Commons Afghanistan Committee. There is some devastating stuff here, that counters point by point the list of points the government and their friendly General witnesses tried [...]

If precedent is any indicator on parliamentary privilege, the Cons will lose in court.

Posted by Scott Tribe on December 16, 2009, at 10:31 am |

… if it even gets that far (more below):

Some good investigation work by the CBC here on similar cases to the one we now potentially face, with the government refusing to hand over the Afghan documents to the Parliamentary Committee on Afghanistan as ordered in a vote by the will of Parliament and Parliamentary supremacy. [...]

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The detainee document story continues to grow.

Would Harper rather go to an election then release the detainee docs?

CSIS involved in interrogating/transferring of Afghan detainees

In light of CBC report, demand full document release now.

Conservatives talking out of both sides of their mouth

If no one cares about detainee issue, Mr Harper, then release the uncensored documents

Continued bad optics for the Conservatives re: Afghanistan Committee

My vote for Canadian Newsmaker of the year (and other related items)

Colvin returns fire.

If precedent is any indicator on parliamentary privilege, the Cons will lose in court.

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