Mr. Speaker, for years there has been a compelling body of evidence about the risk of torture in Afghan jails in the public domain: the U.S. Department of State, the UN, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the Red Cross and even DFAIT itself, to name just a few sources.
The Dutch were so worried that they wanted to build a NATO prison to ensure the proper treatment of prisoners.
Why the cover-up? Why no disclosure? Why not have a public inquiry?