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This month, Miami Herald reporter Carol Rosenberg published the name of a man – known in court as Interrogator #1 – who testified anonymously at the trial of Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay. Rosenberg has since been barred by the Pentagon from further coverage of the military tribunals, but insists she did not violate the ground rules. Interrogator #1’s name, she tells us, was already in the public domain.
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I thought it odd that neither Bob nor the guest mentioned that there were several reporters who gave the real name of Interrogator #1 but were not banned from Guantanamo.
I head the NPR story on this last night. Let me tell you something about Canada. I lived there and they have even regular rules of publication bands or gag orders there even in a divorce. In fact the Canadian Supreme Court, after waiting a year to rule. said their reports have no such shield laws. So the soldiers who went to Canada and I have seen others in the US govt go there, to open up may be breaking US and Canadian law. The Canadian know no one will legally come after them and they report on our govt more than they can on thier own,. In fact the oppostion part in parliament now cannot access Afghan Detaiinee info that their own govt holds. Only the ruling party can see those documents. Go to www.nationalpost.com and see .
As it is I am being illegaly harassed by a Canadian city police dept I am filing suit Monday in the US and I began a bog on how free Canada really is not.
If you work in a large corp yo have rules yo must follow so the reporter should have stuck to the rules to give us what she could. Do not follow what Canada does.
Canada cannot even keep sources private anymore under a new court ruling. IT made the news there last week. We live in as free and open as society as we can and imo when war is one we have to have some secrets.
Our courts are still better than Canada's any day. They are free and open and easy to use. Khadr family is not well liked or wanted in Canada.
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