These people are making fools of all of us. I’m starting to wish the media would go back to re-confirming Harper’s stance on abortions. This is one of the worst-handled events in my memory.
Heads need to roll—so many heads that I’m left scratching mine.
Grewal tapes altered, expert asserts
The recordings initially released by Conservative MP Gurmant Grewal were altered, and it is unlikely that the changes in the tapes he made were caused by digital copying, as the Conservatives have stated, concludes a forensic audio expert employed by The Globe and Mail to examine the controversial recordings.
The Tories released the recordings to bolster their claims that the Liberals had offered Mr. Grewal and his MP wife, Nina Grewal, government appointments if they agreed to switch sides in the crucial May 19 confidence vote in which the government survived by one vote.
But after Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh accused the Conservatives of altering the tapes, the Tories released a new version last Thursday. The party issued a press release saying that two “brief passages” had inadvertently been cut out when the recordings were transferred from master digital files to a series of compact discs at the office of Conservative Leader Stephen Harper.
Yesterday, Jack Mitchell, a U.S. forensic audio expert who conducted a preliminary review of portions of the originally released recordings, said they had been altered. He said he did not believe the changes occurred in the digital-copying process.
“These tapes have been edited. This is not a maybe. This is not something that’s unexplained. This is not, ‘Oh, this is odd.’ This is a definitive statement. The tapes have been edited,” Mr. Mitchell said.
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