Parker Donham today put out an important piece on his Contrarian blog which thoroughly eviscerates Christie Blatchford's low-grade attack on Richard Colvin in her column in Saturday's Globe and Mail. Read it now.

I would hope Parker's analysis gets widely forwarded and linked, and that more than a few letters are dispatched to the editor (letters@globeandmail.com - keep them under 150 words) today.

In the process of releasing classified documents government operatives are breaking the very law they claim prevents them from releasing these documents to our elected parliamentarians.

The Harper government is clearly fighting for its life here, playing hard ball with the opposition and loose with the facts presented to the Canadian public. Someone at very senior levels in the Harper government is breaking the law, and they are all breaking the trust of the Canadian people.

Defence and Foreign Affairs ministers MacKay and Cannon ought to be compelled to resign until the circumstances of these illegal document releases, and allegations of direct or indirect Canadian complicity in torture in Afghanistan, are fully and completely explored by a public inquiry or criminal investigation which must as a matter of course include a complete examination of the actions of the Prime Minister's Office and Stephen Harper himself.