Kinsella corroborated?
The office of Paul Martin pressured the president of the Royal Canadian Mint, David Dingwall, to contradict the explosive testimony of Warren Kinsella at the Commons Public Accounts committee Monday, La Presse learned yesterday... According to information obtained yesterday by La Presse, Mr. Kinsella was informed that the office of the Prime Minister put pressure on Mr. Dingwall through Frank Schiller, a friend of both men. The latter sent an email to Mr. Kinsella approximately half an hour before his testimony to inform him of the situation. Mr. Dingwall, who takes home an annual salary of approximately $250,000, seems to have resisted the pressure until now, not having expressed any comment contradicting his former assistant... Questioned on this subject yesterday evening, the Prime Minister's Office vehemently denied having tried to intimidate Mr. Kinsella. "The Prime Minister's Office did not speak directly or indirectly to Mr. Kinsella. To comment more on this file would be to do what Mr. Kinsella wants, i.e. to grant him attention," said Marc Roy, spokesman for the Prime Minister.
That strikes me as a non-denial denial.
4/20/2005
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Andrew, How does the La Presse story "corroborate" Kinsella here?
This is bullshit journalism at its worst.
That Kinsella guy seems like a real first class jerk.
He has a hard time keeping friends, and given his behavious it is no wonder why.
Behind Kinsella is burnt bridge after burnt bridge.
Kinsella said at the time that he had been pressured to change his evidence. This would corroborate that. If, of course, we believe Dingwall, who is no more credible than Kinsella.
ebt:
All the La Presse story does is repeat Kinsella's allegations.
Repetition is not 'corroboration'. Corroboration implies new evidence that support earlier evidence.
The La Presse story that Mr. Coyne alleges corroborates Kinsella is nothing more than another example of an unnamed, single source piece of journalism based on "information obtained yesterday by La Presse". And again this information obtained by La Presse merely repeats Kinsella.
Andrew Coyne is off the mark with this blog entry and his coverage and commentary on this whole issue.
Coyne got spun and he fell for it.