Hillier not the star player in Canada’s Afghan prisoner deal
Conservatives are now paying a high political price for that weak agreement struck while Liberals were in power as well as for their own inability to get the prisoner story straight.
Canada's new prisoner deal with Afghanistan makes commitments the military avoided in 2005 when Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Rick Hillier signed a now discredited accord with his Kabul counterpart. Fearing that monitoring detainees would be a liability, Hillier, supported by Defence Department law...
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