Mar 03, 2014 4:21 PM

A whistleblower from within Justice Department. One of Peter "Humanitarian Bombs" Mackay Justice Department weasels has cracked. Schmidt seems willing to pay a price to keep it that way. During an interview on CBC Radio’s As It Happens, the lawyer said that after a decade fighting within the system, he decided finally to bring the matter before the courts only after a recent trip to Egypt underscored “how fragile democracy is and how much it needs care and tending.” How vulnerable it is, for instance, to opaque, legally ambiguous legislative processes — or the stifling of dissent.