Feds should explain why they’ll now pay Colvin’s legal fees

But we'll likely never know the details of this decision and the possibility of establishing a precedent that, in the future, will cost the taxpayers not thousands, but millions of dollars.

TORONTO—There are a few questions that arise when reading the stories about the legal fees taxpayers paid for Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat and so-called whistleblower in the Afghanistan torture case of Taliban prisoners.

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