- Harper, How Much More - Call An Inquiry

Submitted: 8:40am, PST, 10 Mar.'10 CBC News
Afghan detainee torture risk raised in 2005: diplomat, March 10, 2010, CBC News
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/03/09/detainee-afghan-diplomat.html Tab 50


Oh, yah, but did Eillen Olexiuk give any 'credible examples of actual torture' (thanks Harper, Mackay, Hawn)

It is my understanding that Stephen Harper and the Con's upped Canada's involvement in Afghanistan to an active combat role and did it almost immediately after getting into power in Jan.'06. One would think that the Media would, as Stephen Harper himself has put it, shed light on this dark corner.

It is statements like that of Eillen Olexiuk that make a public Judicial Inquiry with full powers, including that of subpoena, that much more important.

Her statements raise a lot of questions. For example, why is she making them now. Why was she not call to testify at the Parliamentary Committee hearings. Surely it was not because she was shy to reveal what she has to say.

The timing of her statement to me should be investigated. It is occurring just as things start to really heat up for Harper and the Con - how convenient for Harper and the Con's that it is actually not Harper but the Liberals that are at fault.

Apparently, Harper is spending all this energy and political risk covering up, not to protect himself and his Con government, but to protect the previous Liberal government - wow, how altruistic, I may have to re-assess my impression of Harper and the Cons.

How many other people are poised to make revelations in the Afghan Detainee Transfer scandal and ensuing cover-up.

One would think that if Harper thought (and keep in mind that he and his inner circle are the only ones right now that have all the information) that the Liberal Party were in any way at fault that he would be eager to call a full Public Inquiry. After all it was Paul Martin calling one for the Sponsorship Scandal that allowed Harper into power in the first place.

Lloyd MacILquham cicblog.com/comments.html