Government leaks part of a cover up: Arar lawyer

Maher Arar's lawyer says campaign to defame victim of extraordinary rendition intentional, willful misconduct

Following the 822-page judicial report that cleared Maher Arar, Lorne Waldman, Mr. Arar's lawyer, says government officials deliberately leaked damaging and false information about Mr. Arar in 2002 and 2003 in a sinister attempt to quash growing political pressures for a public inquiry.

Last week, with the sensational release of Justice Dennis O'Connor's report on the events surrounding the deportation, detention and torture of...