I Have No Idea
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | yesterday
In a just world, it would be Peter MacKay's political epitaph . In the Harper government however, it is just business as usual.
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Retired generals accessed secret government documents to prepare for testimony…
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | yesterday
…and Peter MacKay has no idea how that happened. And pigs can fly. Video supplied by CBC.
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Mulroney Contradicts MacKay
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ever since Peter MacKay has been under fire about allegations of torture in Afghanistan during the period of 2006-2007, he has repeatedly said in the house that the transfer agreement was changed once the government had credible evidence to back up those claims . From November 25, 2009, Hansard : Hon. Peter MacKay (Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, CPC): Mr. Speaker,...
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Dragging the goalposts right off the field
Creekside (Free subscription) | yesterday
Then : October 29, 2009 MacKay seeks answers on torture memos "MacKay said Monday that neither he nor his deputy minister ever saw diplomat Richard Colvin's reports, which were circulated widely within the Foreign Affairs and National Defence departments, as well as among senior military commanders." October 23, 2009 MacKay denies seeing Afghan torture reports "Defence Minister Peter...
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MacKay's office got Red Cross Warnings
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emails sent to then-foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay's office expressed alarm over the treatment of Afghan detainees on behalf of the International Red Cross Committee – the world humanitarian organization entrusted by the United Nations to monitor prisoners of war, the Star has learned.
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MacKay's office got Red Cross warnings about Afghan torture
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emails sent to then-foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay's office expressed alarm over the treatment of Afghan detainees.
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MacKay's office got Red Cross warnings about Afghan trreatment
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | yesterday
Emails sent to then-foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay's office expressed alarm over the treatment of Afghan detainees.
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Afghan detainee handling concerned Red Cross
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The International Committee of the Red Cross had serious concerns about Canada's handling of Afghan detainees, according to memos Richard Colvin sent to the office of former foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay in 2006, CBC News has learned.
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MacKay's office knew about prisoner concerns
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Emails sent to then-foreign affairs minister Peter MacKay's office expressed alarm over the treatment of Afghan detainees on behalf of the International Red Cross Committee, the Star has learned.
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It's Hillier Time
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
General Rick Hillier, who has already told the press that he doesn't recall reading any reports about Afghan detainee torture from Richard Colvin, testifies at the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan this afternoon along with two of his military colleagues. (Watch online at CPAC .) The denials by Harper et al continued today during QP even in the face of media reports that the...
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‘I’m not getting into the personality, the professionalism’
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Peter MacKay maintains he never saw Richard Colvin’s reports, only that he received briefings to which there were attachments of which Mr. Colvin was a contributor. A month ago, for the record, Mr. MacKay said he did not heard the name “Richard Colvin” until the diplomat became involved in the Military Police Complaints Commission hearings. [...]
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The Next Line Of Defence
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Now that it is almost certain that emails were directed to Peter MacKay's office by Richard Colvin, the question is, how does he respond? My guess is he will use the tried and true "I can't be expected to read every email sent to me by an employee. After all there are hundreds of embassies and consulates all sending me emails, every day." Really, it's the only semi-plausible excuse for ignoring...
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MacKay responds to new Colvin documents: Never saw direct reports from Colvin
David Akin's On the Hill (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Defence Minister Peter MacKay, upon exiting from the weekly Conservative caucus meeting, responds to new documents that diplomat Richard Colvin filed with the House of Commons Special Committee on the Mission in Afghanistan. Colvin said that memos he sent up the chain of the command alerting officials to possible torture of Afghan detainees in 2006/07 were also cc'd or copied to the office of the Minister...
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Harper's last stand
Dawg's Blawg (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Its complicity in the torture of Afghan civilians no longer in question, the Harper government really has only two ways to go: brazen it out and hope for the best, or cut and run. Brazening is the current favourite. Harper wants his well-prepared and articulate flunky David Mulroney to testify before the parliamentary committee that heard from Richard Colvin last week, without providing the committee...
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The burden of proof
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
As noted, the government’s present stance, as articulated by Defence Minister Peter MacKay, is as follows: “There has never been a single proven allegation of abuse involving a prisoner transferred by the Canadian Forces. Not one.” Here, again, it is perhaps worth reviewing the report that seemingly brought a halt to transfers in November 2007. Page one [...]