All Intensive Purposes

Our government sent this innocent man to be tortured:

Canadian police wrongly identified an Ottawa software engineer as an Islamic extremist, prompting U.S. agents to deport him to Syria, where he says he was tortured, an official inquiry concluded on Monday.

Maher Arar, who holds Canadian and Syrian nationality, was arrested in New York in September 2002 and accused of being an al-Qaeda member. Arar, 36, says he was repeatedly tortured in the year he spent in Damascus jails.

NYT, via Oliver Willis. At least in Canada, official inquiries apparently have some value. We have Pat Roberts.