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'The Government wishes to provide members with the information that is necessary for them to perform their duty of holding the Government to account'

by Aaron Wherry on Thursday, April 1, 2010 1:43pm - 35 Comments

The press gallery has provided an electronic copy of the documents tabled today. I’ve only flipped through the first half dozen, but so far the most interesting file—aside from the document that’s entirely in Farsi—might be this one.

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Page 7 was the most interesting, but page 12 was also pretty good. The whole redacted document should probably be framed and exhibited in the National Gallery of Canada.
wilson

Funny that Hillary Clinton didn't give her two cents on the detainee documents issue, eh.
Andrew (not PorC)

There is no such thing as national security trumping Parliamentary privilege. Parliament can demand all the documents be released, regardless of the contents, so long as it does not violate the constitution. And there's nothing in the constitution about national security secrecy.
Wascally Wabbit

To take up the Nicholson bird theme and push it further – could it be a series of photos of Rick Hillier kicking one of those scumbags in the family jewels?

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HGahaha. I'm gonna have sweet dreams tonight. Thanks!

Dave

Dood, that’s Pashto, not Farsi.
Iron Mike

To add to the waste, someone was paid to sit there and black over these documents before their release, which is clearly a huge waste of time. And did any one else notice that each page has 3 black boxes? Was the first giant black box in sufficient that it had to be redacted two more times?