Read the Fine Print: Greg Weston
http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/columnists/greg_weston/2010/05/17/13983...
Document review plan leaves room for Tories to drag process on endlessly
"Truth is the Conservatives, who have nothing to gain from all this, have the ability to make the process go on forever and still lead to nowhere..suffice it to say, several generations of MPs and judges could be permanently redacted by their maker long before they get through 200,000 pages of this stuff.."
I heard a description on how this process will most likely be done on CBC Radio: Teams of secretaries and assistants to the MPs will go through the documents. The documents will be digitalized/dowloaded onto computers and software will be used that has key word recognition.
Relevant pages that discusses "prisoners", "detainees", "hand over", "transfer", "prison", "jail", "cell", "National Directorate of Security (NDS)", "Afghan authorities", "torture", "abuse", "mistreatment", etc., will be separated from pages that discuss actions in Afganistan taken by either the government, soldiers or the military that are not connected or related to Torturegate.
This will shorten the length of time of the review process.
We'll see...so far I see little evidence of enthusiasm to oppose or expose this war by any of the EOT (evil Ottawa talkshop) denizens.
I dunno. My guess is there are all kinds of juicy tidbits in there.
UK Torture Inquiry Gearing Up
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/52473
"Former Foreign Secretary and Labour Party leadership candidate David Miliband is expected to be called to give evidence before an inquiry into allegations that the United Kingdom was involved in torture...Tayab Ali, a London solicitor who represents a number of mean alleging torture told the London Times that the inquiry was 'a significant and precious opportunity for the British public to know what had been done in their name.."
not in Canada...
International law states that 'lack of knowledge' is no excuse for handing prisoners to torture.
Prisoners were handed to torture.
The process of releasing redacted material amongst Canadian MPs (which ought to have had a timeframe) is in any case secondary to international law under the Geneva Conventions.
There needs to be an investigation under the International Court of Justice regarding the practice of handing Afghan prisoners to torture.
MPs Set for High Stakes Meet over Afghan Detainee Documents
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/meet+over+detainee+documents/3149776/s...
I heard a description on how this process will most likely be done on CBC Radio: Teams of secretaries and assistants to the MPs will go through the documents. The documents will be digitalized/dowloaded onto computers and software will be used that has key word recognition.
Relevant pages that discusses "prisoners", "detainees", "hand over", "transfer", "prison", "jail", "cell", "National Directorate of Security (NDS)", "Afghan authorities", "torture", "abuse", "mistreatment", etc., will be separated from pages that discuss actions in Afganistan taken by either the government, soldiers or the military that are not connected or related to Torturegate.
This will shorten the length of time of the review process.
I don't think that speculation is correct, Frmrsldr, because likely none of the staff would have security clearance. Also, if you know anything about government, it would take forever to digitize all those documents, and I doubt the MPs would be willing to wait.
They already know their way around the documents, and which ones have the missing stuff they want to see. Remember, they already have the redacted versions ... this process is designed to obtain the un-redacted ones.
Anyways, since I'm fairly sure the Liberals will cave like wet blankets by now, it's all moot.
