The Ring Of Truth

An official in DFAIT says in the Globe and Mail, about the situation in Afghanistan after Harper took control:

“The few people … in Foreign Affairs that had been working on the [torture] file up until that point were basically told, there's a new regime in town, and it's going to be top-down. We're not looking so much for advice,”

Is it a stretch to believe Harper's people would carry that message? Not for me, either.