Politech: Followup to Canadian cops raiding reporter's home [fs]

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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From: David Reevely <davidreevely () canada com>
Subject: Re: [Politech] Canadian cops raid reporter's home in probe over 
leaks [fs]
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 15:54:05 -0500
To: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>

The Canadian government today announced plans to review the section of the 
federal Security of Information Act that allowed the raid:
http://www.news.gc.ca/cfmx/CCP/view/en/index.cfm?articleid=76049&;

It's in the last paragraph. The search warrants used in the O'Neill case 
reportedly cited Section 4 of the act as the applicable law in the 
investigation.
The Arar case itself calls into question the Canadian government's 
anti-terrorism activities since 9-11; calling a public inquiry into what 
happened to the guy is roughly the Canadian equivalent of having a special 
committee of Congress looking into the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo 
Bay.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/arar/index.html

The inquiry into the Canadian government's role in Arar's deportation to 
Syria is arguably a direct result of the public outcry over the RCMP raids 
on Juliet O'Neill's office and home.
Full disclosure: I used to work for the newspaper O'Neill works for, and 
still write for it as a freelancer.
Best,

David

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