From screams to whimpers on Afghan detainees

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The same week that House of Commons Speaker Peter Milliken made his historic ruling that Parliament has the right to see all the documents about Afghan detainees, the very man whose sensational allegations fuelled the whole shooting match was being delivered a thumping.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/from-screams-to-whimpers-the-story-the-press-prefers/article1553225/

Richard Colvin: the hounding continues

The Globe & Mail's tabloid journo Christie Blatchford is still trying to recover some of her cred on the Richard Colvin file, lost when her inexpert leakage on behalf of the government was exposed for all to see last December.

Colvin remains in her sights, and today she bemoans the fact that the rest of the media have moved on when real live witnesses have been found who allegedly contradict Colvin's claims of having given distant early warning on the Afghan torture issue.

Blatchford has seized upon this account to rescue her cause. Gavin Buchan occupied Colvin's position before and after the latter served in Kandahar. He testified this past Thursday, before the Parliamentary committee looking into the Afghan detainee matter, that the first he heard of any torture was when the April 2007 story broke in the Globe. Retired Major General Timothy Grant said the same thing.

Blatchford sees this, of course, as reinforcing her contemptuous dismissal of Colvin as a "so-called whistleblower" in a column last November 30, claiming he had "seized his cause late in the game." And to be sure, the testimony from Buchan--more so than Grant's, because nobody seems to tell generals anything--is something to be reckoned with. In it, he stated flatly that Colvin had never mentioned detainee abuse to him, even in transition notes that he received when he took over Colvin's job.
http://drdawgsblawg.blogspot.com/2010/05/hunting-richard-colvin.html



Looks like someone is still hoping for a seat. In the senate.