U.S. officials frustrated Graham in Arar case (Globe and Mail)

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Former foreign affairs minister Bill Graham appears before the Arar inquiry in Ottawa on Monday

By SCOTT DEVEAU
Monday, May 30, 2005 Updated at 2:18 PM EDT
Globe and Mail Update

<snip> The real frustration I had, I guess, with (U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell) and the ambassador (Paul Cellucci),” Mr. Graham testified Monday, “was that they consistently asserted that somebody in Canada had given them the go-ahead, if you like, to deport Mr. Arar.”

He maintained that he did not know initially the whereabouts of Mr. Arar and was not able to obtain specific information from U.S. officials. <snip>

“So my frustration was very much around that: Why couldn't we get to the bottom of absolutely whether anybody here had anything to do with it?” Mr. Graham said. “If (Mr. Powell) had given me a name, we could have quickly tracked it down and said to the person look, ‘Did you or didn't you?' We could have found out. We never got a name. We never got a lead in Canada of anybody we could go to. That was the frustrating aspect.” <snip>

“My position was if he's guilty of something in Canada, we're perfectly able to prosecute him in our country according to our laws,” Mr. Graham said. <snip>

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[CHIMO]

1. Ha Ha Ha

The guy can't get any information from his own government and he has the fullest confidence in communications between government departments.

Sounds to me like there is more adscams going on and the idiots aren't even aware of what is happening.