And now the records 'may take years to locate'.

[ZeitgeistObserver]

Detainee transfer documents buried in Canadian military shipping containers
By Juliet O'Neill, Canwest News Service
April 27, 2010 4:15 PM


OTTAWA — Records of Afghan detainee transfer orders showing whether Canadian military commanders took the risk of torture into account are buried in sea shipping containers and "may take years" to locate, the Military Police Complaints Commission was told Tuesday.

The revelation by Maj. Denis Gagnon emerged when he was closely questioned by lawyer Paul Champ, who said the commission is on the verge of deciding whether it has to suspend public hearings, partly because of missing and delayed documents from the Defence Department.


Gagnon said the documents are "all thrown together in a storage bin, a sea container" and an assessment of how long it would take to catalogue documents and identify the records requested by the commission may take years.


http://www.canada.com/news/Detainee+files+buried+shipping+containers/2956945/story.html

[daleo]

1. Doesn't the military have computers?

File folders, banker's boxes, filing cabinets, scanners, CDS, ...

[ZeitgeistObserver]

2. Govt has bought billions worth of computers

over the years, but nobody seems to be using them!

But even old-fashioned filing cabinets would be an improvement over things just tossed in 'sea containers'.