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Colvin’s Response Letter Available Here

Richard Colvin, the Canadian diplomat who has testified before a Parliamentary committee concerning his warnings to the government about the torture of Afghan detainees captured by the Canadian military and turned over to Afghan authorities, has released a sixteen-page letter in which he addresses the claims of the government concerning his testimony.

The document is available for downloading here. The publicly available document is hosted on Scribd and is marked with a Creative Commons license permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.

You can also read it online at the Globe and Mail website, where an article outlines the letter’s major points.

Full post as published by Slaw.ca on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).