Documents reveal federal officials worried about accuracy of Conservatives’ position on Afghan jail conditions
Tag Archives: Afghan detainees
The detainee documents: it’s not about who respects our soldiers
The questions about detainee treatment have to do with the government, not soldiers
Government to release Afghan detainee documents
After months of delays and reviews, Tories reportedly set to make records public
Amrullah Saleh and the Afghan detainee controversy
Amrullah Saleh was head of Afghanistan’s secret police, the NDS, during the time that Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin alleges detainees transferred to the NDS by Canadian Forces were tortured.
“The committee will have access to all documents.” So will it?
Cancel my initial reaction. I think the NDP and this Globe story have it wrong, too. The deal struck yesterday between the government and the Opposition — two of the three opposition parties, that is — providing for disclosure to members of Parliament of previously secret documents related to the transfer of Afghan detainees, strikes me, on closer reading, as acceptable, and in keeping with the Speaker’s ruling on the matter.
“Legal obligations”
No one is asking Harper to break the law. The conflict he’s complaining about exists only in his head.
Well, that was fast.
I think those who expected the government to answer the Speaker’s ruling on the detainee documents with a Nixonian jihad must now start recalibrating. Can I appeal to fellow chattering-class types to start getting used to the way apparent reversals for the Conservatives turn very, very quickly into opportunities to divide and confuse the Opposition?
A recent committee that didn’t leak secrets
How the House Afghanistan committee can avoid becoming a “leaky sieve”
Futures market
Paul Wells on why Stephen Harper would rather fight an election on the detainee documents than concede
Will the prorogation of Parliament set off a populist revolt?
The people speak