In Ottawa the Royal Canadian Mounted Police yesterday raided the home and office of a Canadian reporter who has covered Maher Arar’s case. Police seized notes, computer files and address books. In November the reporter, Juliet O’Neill, of the Ottawa Citizen, published an article based on information from a secret Canadian intelligence file that she obtained on Arar. She may now face criminal charges for violating Canada’s new Security of Information Act which was passed after 9/11. O’Neill’s editor said “I cannot remember a blacker day for freedom of the press in this country.” O’Neill’s article claimed that Canadian intelligence believed Arar was a member of a disbanded al Qaeda support group. Arar has denied any ties to terrorist organizations and has never been charged with a crime.