Reading the documents: Notification, policy and concerns
The documents tabled last week can be viewed in their entirety here . Herein, a series of posts on some of the noteworthy files...
Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission
’Nothing changes’
Graeme Smith talks to the director of the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission.
The past few days in things that are somewhat more consequential
Gen. Walter Natynczyk has written to the special committee on Afghanistan to outline the military’s account of one of the events...
Past due
While Richard Colvin awaits the necessary funds to pay his legal bills, the Liberals have publicly tabled some of the dozens of...
’Strategic (Macro) Level Engagement’
Canadian Press gains access to internal documents and finds talking points, expressed concerns and wrangling over contingencies.
The Colvin encyclopedia
A collection of documents, testimony and news reports related to Richard Colvin and Canada’s handling of Afghan detainees. The...
What should have been known and when?
Gen. Michel Gauthier made reference Wednesday afternoon to the Globe and Mail’s reporting in April 2007 as to when he first became...
The Commons: Prove it
"These are not things we can take holus-bolus"
The standard of proof
In QP this morning, John Baird explained, in part, the government’s unwillingness to put its faith in Mr. Colvin’s testimony as...
The Commons: Eighteen attempts to explain the same story
MacKay questions the credibility of Afghan torture whistleblower, Richard Colvin