DND ordered Canadian Military Police to withhold information on detainees

The September 2006 email from Richard Colvin was sent after a series of major battles between Canadian troops and Taliban insurgents.

Canadian Forces headquarters ordered Canadian Military Police in Kandahar to withhold information about detainees from the allied International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, an email among the 2,600 documents the government tabled in Parliament says.

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