Can you say collusion?

Rigby helped senior PCO adviser send Paulson letter about missing Senate scandal documents last December

A senior Cabinet aide in the Privy Council Office received assistance from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s national security adviser in order to send RCMP Commissioner Robert Paulson a copy of a letter informing one of Mr. Paulson’s division commanders about the discovery of missing documents in the Senate scandal investigation last December.

PARLIAMENT HILL—A senior Cabinet aide in the Privy Council Office received assistance from Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s national security adviser in order to send RCMP Commissioner Robert Paulson a copy of a letter informing one of Mr. Paulson’s division commanders about the discovery of missing documents in the Senate scandal investigation last December.

Isabelle Mondou, assistant secretary to Cabinet for legal operations and Cabinet confidences, sent a copy of the letter announcing the discovery of key information in an investigation of former chief of staff Nigel Wright to Mr. Paulson, even though the letter was addressed to the assistant commissioner in charge of the RCMP National Division who was in charge of the investigation, copies of the email exchange show.

In the unusual email exchange on Dec. 1, 2013, which took place shortly before the Privy Council Office also disclosed publicly that emails written by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s former PMO legal counsel had not been deleted as previously thought, Ms. Mondou referred to Mr. Paulson as “0”—an apparent internal designation for the RCMP commissioner without naming him—as she sought help from Mr. Harper’s national security adviser, Stephen Rigby.

The emails, among more than 200 pages of documents The Hill Times obtained through a request under the Access to Information Act, also suggest that the PCO information technology branch eventually found the records in caches of designated PMO email records.

http://www.hilltimes.com/news/politics/2014/05/26/rigby-helped-senior-pco-adviser-send-paulson-letter-about-missing-senate/38611