Uncategorized’The issue will not go away’Three important dispatches from Embassy magazine this week. Laura Payton on the plight of the whistleblower . Lee Berthiaume talks...
UncategorizedTorture: all about scoring pointsColvin’s testimony elicited the usual Ottawa question: will it help or hurt the Liberals?
UncategorizedWhat do we know for now?In lieu of Richard Colvin’s memos, there is, again, Richard Colvin’s affidavit and what he says there about those memos. In that...
UncategorizedThe Commons: ’Let us get beyond the rhetorical flourish’The Conservatives plead for patience
UncategorizedDavid Mulroney’s side of the storyEarly reviews from the Canadian Press , Globe , Star , Canwest , CTV , CBC and Inside Politics . Analysis of one of Mulroney’s...
OttawaBehind the detainees issue: the 2006 Kandahar surpriseThe Richard Colvin controversy raises broader historical questions about why Canada was so ill-prepared for combat in...
OttawaOn Hillier’s assertion the Afghan detainees were killersThere was a lot to ponder in Gen. Rick Hillier’s testimony yesterday before the House committee on Afghanistan. But the retired...
Uncategorized’The deliberate cover-up of unwanted truths is more the norm than the exception’Writing in the Ottawa Citizen, Nipa Banerjee, a former CIDA official described as the head of aid in Afghanistan from 2003 to...
UncategorizedWhat 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...
UncategorizedWhat was reported?The generals say there was nothing in Richard Colvin’s memos to warrant action. The CBC , Star and Globe review a couple of...