Back in 2006 a report was filed by Canadian Justice O'Connor about the tortured Canadian Maher Arar, there was much speculation about what the government was hiding. Turns out that Canada was trying to protect America. The documents (.pdf) have been released and what the they showed was that CSIS knew that Maher Arar was being sent to be tortured, courtesy of the CIA.
Arar documents confirm role of CIA, FBI - Canada.com
OTTAWA -- A secret portion of the Maher Arar report that was finally uncensored Thursday morning confirmed that the CIA and the FBI were the American law enforcement agencies that handled his deportation to Syria and that they likely sent him there so that he could be questioned in a "firm manner."
Here is a video of Patrick Leahy snapping on Alberto Gonazales in regards to the Maher Arar case. Like most sane citizens he is appalled that a great nation like America has turned into a humanrRights violator. This case is a black eye on both Canada and America, for a more in depth discussion on this case I recommend listening to this discussion between Avi Lewis and Amy Goodman.
Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. I agree that tortune is not a solution to obtain information. I just pray hard that my USA soldiers who were cupture will be able to come home and work to removed the evil Republican party and made the Democrats more strong and work with the Green party. I feel that Democrats are weak and Green party is the solution
Mary R.Robles at 10:35PM on Aug 11th 2007
2. How dare you question the moral authority of the USA. I smell a seditious traitor. We are winning in Iraq and Afgan. thanks to the firm questioning of all who look, speak or act differently from us anglos, no thanks to self-loathing do-gooders like yourself who don't want us to win....you DEMOCRAT! Take that......and that, and...THAT! Sign me the most left wing, liberal, Democrat, at VFW post 2500 Hollywood-By-The-Sea, Florida. The only TRUE citizens are the one who wore the uniform. They should be the only ones voting....then see how many wars we get into. Because NOBODY hates war more than those of us who have had to fight them. God Bless the USA! Impeach the traitor Bush!
Big Al at 4:14PM on Aug 10th 2007
3. good work jeff.
this is an issue that shjould not be left to collect dust in the closet.
what was done to Mr Arar was a horrible trampling of his human rights and goes against everything decent and honorable.
and may have just been illegal,
but what can you do when the A.G of the U.S is a lock-step flunky of bush.
i find myself ashamed of my governments behavior towards Mr Arar,hell..i find myself just plain ashamed of the bush administration.
till next time..peace.
Enoch D.D.S
enoch at 8:04PM on Aug 10th 2007
4. It's because Stephen Harper highly supports Bush and the War in Iraq, he's been gradually increasing the number of forces being deployed in Afghanistan - with the intent of securing Afghanistan, so that American troops stationed there can be moved to Iraq. Almost every month there's a few more dead Canadian soldiers sent back from Afghanistan.
TV Online at 2:02AM on Aug 11th 2007
5. In all these comments denouncing Canada and the United States, I have yet to see even one person denounce Syria. You know the country that ACTUALLY committed the torture?
This man was still a Syrian citizen, after all. I don't think he was sent back there in the proper way, but in any case, it is Syria who should be held most accountable for this episode. But that won't happen. Why? Because it's not nearly as fashionable as bashing the United States.
John Rohan at 3:40AM on Aug 11th 2007
6. “I have yet to see even one person denounce Syria….” A person’s reaction says ALL about his motive. When we witness, we focus on the truth of the matter but when we react, we give voice to our relative bias which usually has little to do with the truth. The aim of a devolutionary act is to devolve others through their reactances, collectively termed as the corruption of others’ senses/sensibility and the way corruption works is to ALWAYS finger-points/criticise/curse at others’ guilt as opposed to self-judge and determine one’s own guilt. It’s only when we are able to judge ourself successfully can we then judge others and that is through our witnessing aspect, not reactionary aspect. A reaction is to bond others to our cricumstance, usually for the “patsy” factor such that we come out smelling of roses and the other, “who the hell cares..”
ALL are guilty in some way, whether we know it, agree with it, or not. ALL within humanity are bounded by the same morality and circumstance for what comes around, goes around. Gult generates anger for both are the different faces of the same coin and to have none, they must complement and thence be dissolved. Physican, heal thyself … first.
Brian at 8:25AM on Aug 11th 2007
7. yeah, non of us live in syria - you know, the country we EXPECT to shit all over human rights. dont be disuasive. the focus should be on us. this issue will, of course, be swept under the rug. We americans have issues remembering anything that doesnt involve Bary Bonds or Lohan.
Curt
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curtis earl at 8:27AM on Aug 11th 2007
8. Wonder how long they have been doing this. Recon its alot of years that we didn't even here about
Steve at 4:35AM on Aug 15th 2007
9.
It's very interesting how our government claims to not to use torture and denounces certain countries like Syria that we accuse of using it. On the other hand, regimes like Saudi Arabia that torture and routinely do things like public beheadings are given a pass. Our new "friend" Libya recently admitted torturing foreign nurses and doctors and not a peep from our leaders about it. And Libya ADMITTED doing it ! Somebody is having the wool pulled over their eyes and that somebody is us.
max at 11:34AM on Aug 12th 2007
10. lmao ... does this truly surprise anyone? i just have to quote a joke i heard the other day: what is 18 inches long and hangs between george bush's legs? steven harper's tie ... and that, folks, is that state of american and canadian relations. harper is bush's whore.
re: big al. america has no morals, else they wouldn't be in iraq. do you read any news other than what you're spoon-fed by voices-of-israel fox and cnn? if you were a soldier who did his 'duty' in iraq (and that's 'earack' not i-rack), what do you want, except an 'i told ya so'?
chris at 4:32AM on Aug 18th 2007
11. Didn't take long for someone to bring Israel into this. I am no longer surprised that some of you so-called human rights advocates find the most convoluted ways to justify the actions of the most vile human rights violaters yet jump up and down when countries that, while undoubtedly making even some big mistakes, are held to some Arthurian standard of conduct. Please spare me the obligatory terse moral equivalent gobledygook about playing rock music or sleep deprivation is the same as suicide bombings and beheadings. Better yet while there is no question that the Palestinians are entighteled to sympathetic consideration because of their circumstances no matter who was responsible, this pathological condemnation of Israel raises suspicion given the myriad more egregious human rights violations occuring on a daily basis. I think the vibrant democracy that is Israel is slandered on a daily basis by those who either are ignorant of the facts or are slaves to the far left propaganda which couches the middle east in some dialectical Marxist battle between imperialist west and the downtrodden masses of the third world. Enough already.
eric at 2:46PM on Aug 17th 2007