Police Criticized for Action Against Reporter
A newspaper executive severely criticized police for searching the home and office of a reporter who wrote about a Syrian-born Canadian suspected of links to the Al Qaeda terrorist network. The search involving Ottawa Citizen reporter Juliet O’Neill “smacks of a police-state mentality,” said Gordon Fisher, president of news and information for CanWest Global Communications Corp., which owns the newspaper.
Police Sgt. Jocelyn Mimeault said O’Neill was being investigated for allegedly breaking Canada’s government secrecy laws in a report on Maher Arar that quoted a leaked document.
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