How to (try) to run a cover-up: the case of the Harper government and the prisoners in Afghanistan

Has no one told the Tories that almost all cover-up tactics are supposed to be conducted in secret? A cover-up conducted in public is a farce—produced at taxpayer expense.

"Distant events spiral out of control, secrecy silences truth and the messenger is humiliated, then shot." (James Travers, The Toronto Star, Nov. 21, 2009).

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