AP: Parts of Canada Secrecy Law Struck Down

[Eugene]

Parts of Canada Secrecy Law Struck Down
By BETH DUFF-BROWN
Associated Press Writer

October 19, 2006, 5:33 PM EDT

TORONTO -- A court struck down sections of a Canadian anti-terrorism law Thursday,
in a ruling that threw out warrants used to search the home of a reporter covering
U.S. efforts to secretly send a Canadian terror suspect to Syria for interrogation.

The Ontario Superior Court judgment quashed three sections of the so-called leakage
provisions of the federal Security of Information Act, which passed following the
Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

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Squads of Royal Canadian Mounted Police combed through O'Neill's home and office
in January 2004 in an attempt to find the source of information about the Maher
Arar affair.

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The RCMP launched a criminal probe in the weeks following publication of a Nov. 8,
2003 story by O'Neill. The story cited a "security source" and a leaked document
offering details of what Arar allegedly told his Syrian captors.

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Full article: http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-canada-secrecy-law,0,386819.story

[Demeter]

1. Good for Canada!