Colvin fires back at critics in military and government

[Spazito]

The Canadian government lost track of some detainees transferred to Afghan interrogators in 2007 because captives were shipped to covert "black site" jails - beyond the reach of Ottawa's efforts to monitor them for signs of torture, diplomat Richard Colvin says.

This fresh revelation came as the foreign service officer fired back at critics in the military and government establishment who have dismissed his testimony alleging Canada turned a blind eye to the torture of suspects after they were handed over to Afghan authorities.

In a 16-page, point-by-point rebuttal sent to the Commons committee probing detainee transfers, Mr. Colvin depicts Ottawa as only grudgingly agreeing - in the face of public pressure - to monitor prisoners as a means of discouraging their torture.

Even after May of 2007, when Canada put in place new safeguards to make Afghans more accountable for the suspects that they took from Canadian soldiers - some detainees simply disappeared from the radar.

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Mr. Colvin is very impressive, he can't be intimidated by the Harper thugs and is NOT going to let them sweep these atrocious actions under the rug if he can help it.

[glarius]

1. My God!...with this and all the stuff happening at Copenhagen

isn't there enough to get rid of Harper and his thugs? I just heard that Ignatieff is going to have a news conf. in a short while. It's about time!
I'm so ashamed of what has been done to Canada's good name by Harper and his bunch!

[Spazito]

2. Who would have thought back when Canadians were very sympathetic...

with Americans when Bush was destroying that we now have the same thing here! I only hope Canadians wake up and see what this despicable government is doing to Canada both domestically and internationally.