The So-Called Secret List
As usual, in his quiet way Dion got straight to the point: why is anyone who is allegedly on a secret list named in the Vancouver Sun as being on the "secret list"? According to the Globe and Mail today: "A spokesman for the RCMP, Staff Sergeant John Ward, said the force would never reveal who they plan to question in such a hearing." So who said what to the Sun and what was their agenda and the Sun's? And was it legal?
Anyway it all makes the point, that the more safe-guards individuals have in the law the better, and the more they are suspended by anti-terrorism laws the worse it gets for everyone else.
A second point, which has been well-covered by many others: 25 years, a reputedly botched investigation, a study and now a commission and somehow the whole case is going to be miraculously solved if two laws that have already been on the books for 5 years are retained - what are the laws of probability?
Anyway it all makes the point, that the more safe-guards individuals have in the law the better, and the more they are suspended by anti-terrorism laws the worse it gets for everyone else.
A second point, which has been well-covered by many others: 25 years, a reputedly botched investigation, a study and now a commission and somehow the whole case is going to be miraculously solved if two laws that have already been on the books for 5 years are retained - what are the laws of probability?
posted by Susan at 7:48 AM
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1. The investigation of this heinous crime has been hampered by the negligence of the security agencies or interference by the Canadian government in the 1980’s. We all know about destruction of some Air India related evidence by CSIS in 1985 but very few of us know that tampering with Air India file occurred in 1990’s as well. Check Globe and Mail from 26 February 2003 and read story by Robert Matas about testimony by a retired RCMP officer at Malik/Bagri trial. I quote from the story, :”Mr. Drozda, a retired RCMP officer who worked on the Air-India case from 1985 to 1992
During Mr. Drozda’s testimony, the court also heard that an unidentified person had tampered with two boxes of sealed documents from the Narita trial.
The boxes, stored at Vancouver RCMP headquarters, contained copies of documents setting out information disclosed to Mr. Reyat’s defence lawyers during the Narita trial.
Mr. Drozda testified that the boxes were sealed in 1992 after the trial. But on the day before he testified in the Air-India pretrial hearing, Mr. Drozda discovered the seal was broken. Some material had been removed and other material had been inserted, he said.”
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