About two weeks ago, with hardly anyone noticing, the federal government announced that it was ending the review of Afghan detainee documents. This essentially brings the scandal to an end. The review of documents was initiated after whistleblower and diplomat Richard Colvin testified in Parliamentary committee that senior government officials knew that Afghan prisoners of [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/07/07/the-afghan-detainee-scandal-dies-while-petty-scandals-are-given-full-inquiries/
This story hardly got any notice when it appeared in The Star almost two weeks ago, when the election was entering its home stretch. But it should have, because there is the potential that elected officials, bureaucrats and soldiers could end up in the International Criminal Court in The Hague. The court is getting impatient [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/05/09/media-update-for-may-9-2011/
It’s a pretty bad state of affairs for a democracy when an advocacy group has to go to court to get public officials to be transparent – action that any reasonable person would agree is important to an informed electorate. I’m referring to the suit launched by the online advocacy group Avaaz, which is trying [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/04/26/media-update-for-april-26-2011/