[Newsbot]

Title: Feds to release more secret intelligence files on Tommy Douglas
Category: Political
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2010-12-19 17:29:32
Canadian

[Public_Domain]

[Freakinoldguy]

$1:

That amounts to a major climb down by the government, which has steadfastly maintained the release of the Douglas documents — some dating back more than 70 years — would impair the present-day work of Canada's spy service, including endangering the lives of confidential informants.

I'm seriously doubting that.

The USSR is gone, Tommy Douglas is gone, and likely most of those informants and spy's with him, so what the hell could be so sensitive that Canadians's shouldn't have access to it?

[herbie]

OMG Tommy Douglas wuz a soshulist?
Thank God we have CSIS we'd never have found out, wikileaks missed it entirely.

[Mustang1]

There's likely nothing that important, contemporarily, that it can't be made accessible to historians and scholars and Canadians. It pisses me off when some bureaucrat gets to control, censor, our collective memory likely due to the fact that something, somewhere embarrases someone today. It's our history, we're entitled to it.

[Zipperfish]

Exactly why we need wikileaks.

[DrCaleb]

Zipperfish Zipperfish:

Exactly why we need wikileaks.

We can't have Assange worshipers releasing classified intel all willy-nilly! That way lies anarchy and communism!

[billypilgrim]

shit, tommy's gonna be pissed. but the folks at the Boring Archive Desk will be delighted.

[EyeBrock]

I wonder if he'll still remain one of CBC's 'Great Canadians'?

[fifeboy]

EyeBrock EyeBrock:

I wonder if he'll still remain one of CBC's 'Great Canadians'?

Only until Steve gets a majority.

[EyeBrock]

That 'aint gonna happen FB.

[herbie]

You think the files are being withheld because they're potentially embarrassing to Tommy Douglas?
They're withheld so as not to show the cops as more barn burning McCarthyist fools!