RCMP, border agents can use torture-tainted information

[alp227]

Source: Canadian Press

The Conservative government has quietly given Canada's national police force and the federal border agency the authority to use and share information that was likely extracted through torture.

Newly disclosed records show Public Safety Minister Vic Toews issued the directives to the RCMP and the Canada Border Services Agency shortly after giving similar orders to Canada's spy service.

The government directives state that protection of life and property are the chief considerations when deciding on the use of information that may have been derived from torture.

They also outline instructions for deciding whether to share information when there is a "substantial risk" that doing so might result in someone in custody being abused.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/08/24/rcmp-border-agency-information-torture.html

[riverbendviewgal]

1. Harper is BUsh mini me

He is a firm believer in that it is alright to lie to the people....Just like Romney.

We will be kicking him out at the end of his term.

[freshwest]

4. Please do. But didn't they use illegal tactics in the last election?

[polly7]

7. I can't wait to see the last of the worst 'thing' that's happened to Canada.

[marmar]

2. All hail, Emperor Harper

[fascisthunter]

3. conservatives are very sick individuals

[DeSwiss]

9. Literally.

''A study funded by the US government has concluded that conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in "fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity''. link

[canuckledragger]

5. At the risk of sounding a little like Glen Beck

going off on a "Hitler!!" "Nazis!!" rampage...


..It's been shown that Harper HAS been tied to neo-nazi & white supremacist groups in the past.

I would assume that he could care less if info was gained from torture or not...It's not like morality or ethics would be an issue for him.
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http://canadianawareness.org/2012/02/stephen-harper-linked-to-nazi-intellectuals-and-christian-fundamentalists/

Mr. Harrison documents in the book entitled Of Passionate Intensity, that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was a member of the ultra-right wing Northern Foundation in 1989. Mr. Harrison documents that this Foundation was comprised of Neo-Nazi social Darwinist intellectuals.

Stephen Harper was Reform Party Policy chief, at a time when it had numerous members of the white supremacist group Heritage Front as members. Trevor Harrison, further documents that Mr. Harper even had Heritage Front members doing security for Preston Manning at Reform Party events in Ontario. The Reform Party would evolve into the Alliance Party of Canada, which sought to take over the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada (PC Party) toward the formation of the “Conservative Party of Canada”.

When Stephen Harper was a member of the ultra-right-wing Northern Foundation in 1989, Mr. Harrison documents that this was a group that had numerous Neo-Nazi skinheads as organizers, as well as a leadership that included a well-known white supremacist and anti-feminist crusader as a prominent leader that sought to take over the mass-media to enable the fulfillment of a right wing agenda.
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Is the behaviour of the CPC any surprise to anyone now that you know THIS little bit of info?

[CHIMO]

6. Ottawa allows RCMP, border agency to use torture-tainted information Add to ...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-allows-rcmp-border-agency-to-use-torture-tainted-information/article4497677/



Bedrooms of ministers and their babysitters are off limits. The government has the RCMP to enforce their election and other requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vic_Toews

[greiner3]

8. Dudley Do-Wrong!

[Monk06]

10. The RCMP should be disbanded. They're a bunch of murders and thugs.