Chronicle Herald uses the “C” WORD : why won’t the CBC ?

Of course not, here at the Ceeb we aren’t allowed to say “Confidential Informants”

Now even the stodgy old Chronicle Herald has dared to use the “C” WORD in print, joining Maclean’s Magazine, MSN, Toronto Star, Daily Mail in recently doing so in regard to the Gabriel Wortman case.

So why then are all those young with-its at the normally bold and brave Ceeb so afraid of it ?

The Herald rushed in where the pickle-up-its-ass CBC dared not go, boldly reporting that yesterday government prosecutors told a judge that the RCMP did not use CIs (confidential informants) to obtain recent search warrants, the very first search warrants the mounties ever sought against Gabriel Wortman.

(For 23 years the police refused to seek search warrants after this extremely violent individual attempted to murder, or threatened to murder, endless numbers of people - including a cop - with his non-registered (ie illegal) gun stash.

After 23 innocents were murdered, then the RCMP sought (23) search warrants.

When the mounties aren’t burning barns and blaming it on other people, they are locking the barn door after the wolf has killed the chickens.)

But I digress.

Taxpayers are starting to wonder ; are some employees of the CBC double-dipping or what ; working as objective reporters but not adverse to slipping the mounties a little now and then when they think it might serve the public good ?

Is the CBC worried about blackmail by the mounties if the CBC pushes this confidential informant angle ?

Well, before we all get too tin hat on this on, perhaps there is a believable - even true - explanation fro the CBC for this behaviour.

Haven’t heard it yet. An email to Ken MacIntosh, head of CBCMaritimes news and current affairs was ignored.

I have a complaint in with the CBC Ombudsman....