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Access to Frustration: National Security and the Information Commissioner

ATI disclosure in national security cases is a farce. Subjects where I have waited over a year for information:Transfer records of Afghan detainees (InfoComm's investigation took 3 years)Evaluation reports for CIDA projects in Afghanistan (waiting since 2006; InfoComm tolerating the delay)Briefi

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Access to Frustration: National Security and the Information Commissioner

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    1. Access to Frustration: National Security and the Information Commissioner Professor Amir Attaran Canada Research Chair Faculties of Law and Medicine Institute of Population Health

    2. ATI disclosure in national security cases is a farce Subjects where I have waited over a year for information: Transfer records of Afghan detainees (InfoComm’s investigation took 3 years) Evaluation reports for CIDA projects in Afghanistan (waiting since 2006; InfoComm tolerating the delay) Briefing materials of DND lawyers on detainee transfers (waiting since 2007 after DND took a 300 day extension; InfoComm failed to intervene in that time)

    3. What the InfoComm agreed DFAIT would release about Afghanistan’s human rights record

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