Too often in politics, principle is the hapless victim of expediency. In the struggle to pry Afghanistan documents from Stephen Harper's grasp, principle never had a chance.

Paying former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci up to $600 an hour to review thousands of files is a shrewd solution to a vexing problem. It buys Conservatives time at public expense and adds the patina of Iacobucci's lustrous reputation to an otherwise shabby effort to wrap Afghan prisoner abuse documents in a national security blanket.

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