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Committee Recap: Take the @Vikileaks30 motion debate in camera? But it was just getting good!

RECAP: Well, that was annoying: after just over an hour of discussion of what Charlie Angus deemed the "digital Rubicon" that may or may not have been crossed via a 140-character-laced footbridge, the Conservatives, for reasons yet to be revealed, forced the whole @Vikileaks30 sideshow behind closed doors, leaving the ultimate fate of the Del Mastro motion - and the Liberal amendment, which would have expanded the inquiry to cover all government use of twitter, and the NDP subamendment that would add Facebook to the list of communications protocols to study - tantalizingly unknown. 

As soon as I get answers, I'll let you know how it all played out, at least as much as one can when such matters are being handled behind the curtain of committee privilege. In the meantime, if you missed today's meeting, you can catch up below. Liveblogs from previous meetings are available for your perusing pleasure here (round one) and here (round two)

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Original post: The battle over Dean Del Mastro's motion to call former Liberal staffer Adam Carroll before committee will resume this morning, as the Conservatives continue their campaign to question the confessed @Vikileaks-er on the full extent of what, from Del Mastro's comments thus far, he seems to believe may have been a middling to massive caucus-wide conspiracy to embarrass the public safety minister by posting excerpts from public court documents. 

 On the agenda today: an amendment proposed by lone Liberal representative Scott Andrews that would expand the investigation to include all use of government resources on twitter, particularly that involving ministerial staffers. 


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