RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme: “We have to be mindful that as a law enforcement, everything we do and we bring forward in the judicial process… we must have obtained it legally.”Photo by Screengrab/National Post

RCMP investigation in legal 'grey zone' with 'green slush fund' documents: commissioner

Commissioner Mike Duheme is concerned that some of the documents provided via a controversial House of Commons order are beyond the normal reach of investigators

by · National Post

OTTAWA – RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme is concerned that some of the documents on the so-called “green slush fund” sent to Mounties via a controversial House of Commons order are beyond the normal reach of investigators, putting the force in an awkward legal “grey zone.”

In a wide-ranging interview with National Post, Duheme spoke publicly for the first time on the ongoing logjam in the House of Commons over government documents that MPs ordered to be turned over to the RCMP.

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