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Also last week in court Henein revealed that the military had what she termed as codewords for the Vice Admiral Norman, again suggesting a concerted effort with the DND and the Canadian Forces to avoid having to produce the documents needed for Norman’s defence. Among the terminology used was C34, N3, Kracken, NM and the boss. Vance, however, stated in court that the terms are not codewords – they are common military terms he claimed – and there is nothing sinister about their usage.

Did Vance tell the Department of Justice officials who were co-ordinating the search for “Norman” records within the DND and Canadian Forces about these terms they should look for?

The testimony continues:

HENEIN:Am I right that nothing was done to alert the DOJ (Department of Justice) to provide these military terms?

VANCE:I alerted the deputy minister of my concern and thereafter I don’t know what happened.

Here is more testimony about that subject:

HENEIN:How on earth would anyone know that you refer to him as C34, N3 or Kracken or NM or the boss? How could anyone know that is how you refer to him?

VANCE:Right.

HENEIN:No, I’m asking a question.

VANCE:In my view therefore it would be on us to ensure the search terms directed inside the department are broad enough and capture the various ways his position and title would come up.

HENEIN:You did not do that

VANCE:(silence for several seconds).

HENEIN:You did not do that.

VANCE:Well….

HENEIN:You did not do that. The motion for documents was filed in October. Documents had been requested by Mr. MacKinnon and Mr. Rasmussen (Justice Dept. officials co-ordinating the collection of DND/government documents) who are working very hard to collect documents. Did you at any time write to them and say to them the search should include all the other records? Did you ever say that?