Norman’s lawyers have asked for access to thousands of government records they say will exonerate their client. His lawyers listed several code names officials at the department have used to refer to him — including The Boss, MN3, C34 and The Kraken. Vance, chief of the defence staff, said the use of other terms to refer to military personnel is common in internal communications and documents. “Those acronyms are not intended to avoid anything,” Vance said in response to a question from Norman’s lawyer, Marie Henein. “And if there’s anybody out there who is in any way trying to thwart that, then we’ll certainly try to get to the bottom of it because he deserves a full and fair defence,” Vance said.

Source: National Post January 30, 2019 19:06 UTC