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An interesting exchange—and perhaps even a straight answer—from Question Period yesterday.

The Security Intelligence Review Committee has released its review of how CSIS handled Afghan detainees and its relationship with Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security.

Stephane Dion, the Liberal MP on the ad hoc committee, offers his take on what he saw in the documents.

Whether Canada has transferred children to Afghan authorities, the government won’t say

Detainee transfers were halted in May 2009 after an Afghan intelligence officer bragged of torture. Two allegations of mistreatment from later that year have now come to light.

Two new allegations of detainee abuse come to light in British court proceedings.

In his letter to the Afghanistan committee late last week, Gen. Walter Natynczyk wrote that “Canadian Forces do not transfer individuals for the purposes of gathering information.” In a letter sent today, the NDP’s Paul Dewar and Jack Harris have asked Gen. Natynczyk to clarify this point.

A former translator has just concluded rather dramatic testimony at the special committee on Afghanistan.

CBC gets hold of a summer 2009 warning about Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security.

The government has tabled another 6,200 pages of detainee documents today. As with last week’s documents, these were not reviewed by Justice Frank Iacobucci, the respected jurist theoretically hired to do just that and cited yesterday by the Justice Minister as the solution to the government’s current standoff with Parliament.

Within a “tranche” of previously undisclosed documents, the Globe finds an unmet pledge to build a prison in Afghanistan and a dispute between Afghan and NATO officials over access to detainees.

Canadian Press delves into a proposed, but ultimately rejected, plan to put the Afghan army in charge of detainees.