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Feds to release more secret intelligence files on Tommy Douglas


Political | 206713 hits | Dec 19 5:29 pm | Posted by: Hyack
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OTTAWA - The federal government has relented on its adamant refusal to release decades-old intelligence on socialist icon Tommy Douglas. It's now promising to review the file and release additional material.

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  1. by avatar Public_Domain
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:05 am
    :|

  2. by avatar Freakinoldguy
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 3:22 am
    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?

  3. by avatar herbie
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:24 pm
    OMG Tommy Douglas wuz a soshulist?
    Thank God we have CSIS we'd never have found out, wikileaks missed it entirely.

  4. by avatar Mustang1
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 5:57 pm
    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.

  5. by avatar Zipperfish Gold Member
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 6:49 pm
    Exactly why we need wikileaks.

  6. by avatar DrCaleb
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 7:37 pm
    "Zipperfish" said
    Exactly why we need wikileaks.


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

  7. by avatar billypilgrim
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:47 pm
    shit, tommy's gonna be pissed. but the folks at the Boring Archive Desk will be delighted.

  8. by avatar EyeBrock
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:52 pm
    I wonder if he'll still remain one of CBC's 'Great Canadians'?

  9. by avatar fifeboy
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:04 pm
    "EyeBrock" said
    I wonder if he'll still remain one of CBC's 'Great Canadians'?
    Only until Steve gets a majority.

  10. by avatar EyeBrock
    Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:05 pm
    That 'aint gonna happen FB.

  11. by avatar herbie
    Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:29 pm
    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!



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