In 2007, Harper’s office micromanaged torture spin

Today's must-read: A former NATO official tells the Toronto Star how Prime Minister Harper's office micromanaged the story of Canada's complicity in Afghan torture when it first erupted in 2007. The former official, speaking on condition his name not be used, told the Toronto Star that Harper's office in Ottawa "scripted and fed" the precise wording NATO officials in Kabul used to repudiate allegations of abuse "at a time when it was privately and generally acknowledged in our office that the chances of good treatment at the hands of Afghan security forces were almost zero." "It was highly unusual. I was told...