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Well, at least they've finally got documents. (Some of them.) - Liveblog of the Afghanistan committee

by Kady O'Malley Posted: December 2, 2009 3:00 PM Last Updated: December 2, 2009 2:50 PM
In advance of this afternoon's Afghanistan committee meeting -- which I will, of course, be liveblogging -- here's a quick preview of today's witnesses: 

A quick check of the CBC.ca Who's Who of officials named during Richard Colvin's testimony reveals that Colleen Swords is a former assistant deputy minister at Foreign Affairs who was copied on several memos, she was also "ultimately" his boss. She's now an associate deputy minister at Indian and Northern Affairs. 

  Douglas Scott Proudfoot was formerly with FTAG, the interdepartmental task force and, according to the Globe, was "instrumental in Canada's 2007 efforts to secure better monitoring of detainees." He is now the director of the Sudan Task Force 

Finally, Linda Garwood-Filbert, a manager at Corrections Canada, was part of the Kandahar PRT in 2007

Oh, and a quick update on the documents: Although the government has given every indication that the committee will be provided with the requested material, it's not clear whether the members will have been given access to the memos before this afternoon's hearing, or whether any of it will be released to the media. We'll keep you posted -- and we'll keep posting what what we get to our online archive.

Check back at 3:30 p.m. for full coverage.