[Newsbot]

Title: Cadman tape a phony
Category: Political
Posted By: mtbr
Date: 2008-06-04 09:35:27
Canadian

[mtbr]

No way the Liberals would never do such a thing!

[hurley_108]

I like how you took the last two words off the headline...

[mtbr]

I was laughing so hard my finger slipped

[Zipperfish]

hurley_108 hurley_108:

I like how you took the last two words off the headline...

Good eye!

[ridenrain]

It's looking like Tom Zytaruk trusted the wrong people. His book was based on the stories of Donna and the tape, but now that Donna recanted her story, the only "proof" remains is the tape. I'm guessing he passed that over to the Liberals when they snatched onto the book as a political bludgeon and that's where the tampering took place. I doubt Tom Zytaruk did that himself but he's in far too deep to admit the tape had changed.

Now with the tape in question and the RCMP saying no crime was committed, there's even less ground for the Liberal defence of the lawsuit.

[Scape]

I don't see Harper recanting what was on tape do you? Only point raised is that there is more, so why doesn't Harper tell us the whole thing then because what is already on tape is damming as hell.

$1:

Zytaruk: "I mean, there was an insurance policy for a million dollars. Do you know anything about that?"

Harper: "I don't know the details. I know that there were discussions, uh, this is not for publication?"

Zytaruk: "This (inaudible) for the book. Not for the newspaper. This is for the book."

Harper: "Um, I don't know the details. I can tell you that I had told the individuals, I mean, they wanted to do it. But I told them they were wasting their time. I said Chuck had made up his mind, he was going to vote with the Liberals and I knew why and I respected the decision. But they were just, they were convinced there was, there were financial issues. There may or may not have been, but I said that's not, you know, I mean, I, that's not going to change."

Zytaruk: "You said (inaudible) beforehand and stuff? It wasn't even a party guy, or maybe some friends, if it was people actually in the party?"

Harper: "No, no, they were legitimately representing the party. I said don't press him. I mean, you have this theory that it's, you know, financial insecurity and, you know, just, you know, if that's what you're saying, make that case but don't press it. I don't think, my view was, my view had been for two or three weeks preceding it, was that Chuck was not going to force an election. I just, we had all kinds of our guys were calling him, and trying to persuade him, I mean, but I just had concluded that's where he stood and respected that."

Zytaruk: "Thank you for that. And when (inaudible)."

Harper: "But the, uh, the offer to Chuck was that it was only to replace financial considerations he might lose due to an election."

Zytaruk: "Oh, OK."

Harper: "OK? That's my understanding of what they were talking about."

Zytaruk: "But, the thing is, though, you made it clear you weren't big on the idea in the first place?"

Harper: "Well, I just thought Chuck had made up his mind, in my own view ..."

So you can imagine Harper: "But the, uh, the offer to Chuck was that it was only to replace financial considerations he might lose due to an election." as an election slogan ?

[ridenrain]

If I recall correctly, the Liberal relied on some shady guy from the US to back their I don't know why they didn't use someone at the CBC-Jeera.

Still, nothing about this huge life insurance policy that Chuck himself denied.

The full injunction and the legal briefs are posted on Stephen Taylor's blog and it looks very though. I think this poor reporter is going to get hung out to dry on this one.