OttawaReading comprehension (II)Apparently Peter Van Loan suggested to a committee two weeks ago that Michael Ignatieff supports torture. Asked about it...
Ottawa’We hope that you will find the report useful’Mark Danner has filed a second piece for the New York Review of Books on the torture that took place under the Bush...
OttawaThe Commons: ’We will continue to insist’The Scene. To everyone’s infinite credit, Question Period passed today without a single reference to a bathroom, toilet, loo or...
OttawaDo we endorse torture? (III)CSIS attempts to correct the record. The head of Canada’s spy agency said an official may have been “confused” this week when...
OttawaThe Commons: How do you solve a problem like Afghanistan?Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade, took questions on that file
OttawaDo we endorse torture? (II)This recent story from the Washington Post is probably relevant to the discussion here. When CIA officials subjected their first...
OttawaHey lookNew Wells column . This week’s topic is torture. The source document is here ; its author told me that "What is Obama going to do...
OttawaDo we endorse torture?The Toronto Star reports from today’s public safety committee meeting. CSIS will still use information that may have been obtained...
Ottawa"The rule of law, and nothing else, is what makes us exceptional."Anne Applebaum wrote the definitive history of the Gulag. She gets that what happened to U.S. detainees wasn’t the Gulag, but...
Ottawa"...the ill-treatment to which they were subjected...constituted torture."The activity detailed in this 2007 report from the International Committee of the Red Cross , if confirmed – and much of it has...