Reality Check: More broken promises on releasing Afghan detainee documents

After a historic ruling from speaker Milliken one year ago the Liberals took the road well travelled, and backed down in the face of Conservative threats. The result: an ad hoc committee of Parliamentarians locked away for a year.

Today, the Liberal and the Bloc are promising action. We’ve heard this before:

“My understanding is that the process is a serious one and is proceeding well and I’m quite confident that we will see some documents released very soon”
Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc, December 10, 2010

“We'll have an important number of those documents that will be rendered public in January”
Gilles Duceppe, Canadian Press, December 10, 2010

"You can rest assured, there will be a status report ... and information will be released"
Liberal MP Bryon Wilfert, Canadian Press, December 10, 2010

This is why Ottawa’s broken.