Blatchford: I refer to the prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, the former vice-chief of the defense staff, where a third-party records application brought by defense lawyers is now on hiatus until January.
The hearing ran for two days in Ottawa this week and was so replete with news — first, an email from former prime minister Stephen Harper, waiving cabinet confidence on documents dating from his era and then two surprise witnesses, public servants called by the defense, the sum of whose evidence was that the current government may be very well trying to bury records in the case — that one aspect got lost.
Here, the state pretends it is horrified and offended at allegations it is being less than co-operative and dragging its big feet, while still, inevitably, being unco-operative and dragging its big feet.
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