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Vikileaks creator too sick to face MPs
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OTTAWA, Ont. -- A former Liberal staffer who quit after posting a cabinet minister's divorce details online is again putting off an appearance before a House of Commons committee.
Adam Carroll had been expected to testify before the ethics committee today about his role in the Twitter account Vikileaks.
He was supposed to appear earlier this week but was ill and the committee decided it would issue a summons for his return. But in a letter, his lawyer says Carroll is still too sick to attend.
The letter says Carroll will eventually testify, as he wants to bring the issue to a close. "However, this appearance will be by invitation, not compulsion," said the letter from lawyer Paul Champ.
The Tory-dominated committee had called Carroll to testify after an investigation by the House of Commons suggested he was using parliamentary resources to post Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' divorce details via Twitter.
The account was set up in the wake of the introduction of an online surveillance bill that would give authorities expanded powers to gain people's Internet information.
While the divorce records were in the public domain, using the Commons computer to distribute them may have violated policies.
Carroll quit his job once he was identified as the source of the account and Liberal Leader Bob Rae apologized to Toews in the Commons. The Speaker of the House of Commons declared the matter closed. For that reason, the committee has no real authority to be studying the issue, Champ wrote.
-- The Canadian Press
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition March 15, 2012 A8
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