Boston College to hand over Dolours Price interviews
According to Kevin Cullen, reporting for the Irish Times, US district court judge William Young is continuing his in camera review of the Boston College archive material. And he has already ordered the college to hand over the recorded interviews of former Provisional IRA member Dolours Price. From the Irish Times report
College officials said Ms Price’s interviews will be turned over to US prosecutors acting on behalf of British authorities, believed to be the PSNI, by today.
US district court judge William Young ordered the disclosure on Tuesday as he continued an in-camera review of interviews that were part of the Belfast Project, an oral history endeavour sponsored by Boston College.
The college’s decision not to appeal Judge Young’s order has led to a bitter rift between the college and two of the men who did much of the research in Ireland, the journalist and author Ed Moloney, who was the project director, and Anthony McIntyre, a writer and former IRA prisoner, who carried out the interviews of former republican paramilitaries.
Whether any further revelations would dent those “personality cults” is another matter…
Update As noted in the comment zone below, a limited stay on the court order, until 9 January 2012, has been granted by the US Court of Appeal at the request of Ed Moloney and Anthony McIntyre. It would seem to relate to their appeal of the district court’s rejection of their attempts to intervene in the case.
Boston College haven’t appealed the court order itself.
Topic: Government, Politics, Society and Culture
Region: Global, Northern Ireland, UK
Jimmy, the Barnes issue was a try-on by the PSNI in that it countered the college’s claim that it had a contractual obligation of confidentiality which prevented it from handing over the tapes. If that contract was already broken (by Barnes supposedly knowing what was on the tape) then it wasn’t a valid reason not to hand the tapes over. However, the court could have ordered that contract to be set aside even if it found against PSNI/Barnes on the issue.
The court decided to review the material and to decide if it contained information pertinent to the PSNI’s investigation. Having satsified itself that it did, it duly ordered the tapes to be handed over.
So what would occur if the PSNI wanted access to other tapes in the collection is that it would ask a court to review them to determine relevance. However, it would require some basis for beleiving a particular tape was relevant, but that could be no more than a suspect in a particular case also being an interviewed for the archive.
I doubt that many would have made incriminating statements if they properly understood that they could be used against them. It is prossible, of course, that the ‘guarantee’ that the statements would not be released until after their death was to protect them from social embarrassment rather than legal consequences. It’s also possible that they told the researchers a pile of bullshit in exchange for the reseach fee…
At any rate, the PSNI has made its point that these folks should keep their mouths shut and not disclose anything about the conflict outside of official channels, so there is no point to revisit the archive.
Adams may be quizzed over death of McConville
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/adams-may-be-quizzed-over-death-of-mcconville-2977137.html
“US officials have received transcripts of interviews that former IRA member Dolours Price gave to Boston College.” ….. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-16387609
For doctoring, of course, refining and redrafting. Do you doubt it is so, in a land which channelled millions and channels billions in funds for weapons and mayhem to causes that support and fight urban insurrection and para-military dictatorship/military industrial complex compliance.
You do know that Uncle Sam has added NDAA to their criminal arsenal which says the executive admin has the fascist power to removes all rights and regulations and authorities from anyone it sees fit and detain them incommunicado wherever for as long as forever? Or did you miss that over the Xmas holidays.
And not a peep from the puppets in Parliament or lackeys in Stormont over that abuse of human rights. What a load of plonkers and shower of cowards they would be, to allow such a perverse foreign action to pass by without raising a stink?
And what would that tell everyone about everything and the myths that are pimped about the fights for democracy?
Loyalist wants Boston College tapes returned
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/loyalist-wants-boston-college-tapes-returned-16098445.html
Man from Mars
This may help
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_foil_hat
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Just love the ostrich humour, cynic2, but it is so sad to watch and listen to so many ill-equipped fools and useless tools trying to suppress, if not the naked unpleasant truth, then tales of pornographic fiction.
And as it is most unlikely that political puppets and former para-militaries with much to hide about their instrumental roles in waging urban warfare with acts of terrorism would be at all exercised to be bothered with the latter, is one left to consider the probability of revelation of what is required for natural justice …… the naked unpleasant truth.
Only then will there be a start, a beginning to bring to an end the still ongoing Troubles which blight a green and pleasant land with more than its fair share of crazy ignorant communities poorly serviced by those who would presume to represent them and be able to provide for them with government.
Methinks you can order a lorry load of those tin foil hats for all those who would be so deluding themselves because they just haven’t got what it takes to lead and serve ……. as is evidenced by the ongoing and growing crises, which all appear to revolve around a stop on the ready money supply.
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The system owes the people, hundreds of trillions. We want it back and we want it back now. The people are foreclosing on the crooked system.
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Wake up, dummies. Don’t you know that there’s a Virtual World War being waged for Hearts and Minds, with one side determined to render you slaves without wealth and the other side committed to providing you with everything you need with the simple endless loop supply of pretty printed paper, which is soon to be replaced with a convenient electronic money supply facility.
Oops …… Sorry, this bit is missing from the above ….. Then you can build whatever you want yourselves and one will wonder why it was ever thought necessary to have bankers and politicians do all your thinking for you and monopolising media to carry their twisted messages and perverse programs.
More tin foil hats needed for this crowd too, Cynic2, …… http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/01/obama-mars/
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http://bostoncollegesubpoena.wordpress.com/intervenors/exhibit-a-decision/
“Prior to the commencement of the Project, Robert K. ONeill, the Burns
Librarian, cautioned Moloney that although he had not spoken yet with
Boston Colleges counsel, the library could not guarantee the
confidentiality of the interviews in the face of a court order.
Govts FirstOppn, Ex. 10, Fax from Robert K. ONeill to Ed Moloney,
May 10, 2000
Page 5
. Aff. ONeill 3.Each interviewee of the project was to be given a
contract guaranteeing confidentiality to the extent that American law
allows.
“Secret interviews with IRA terrorists ‘linking Gerry Adams to unsolved murder’ could be made public
“U.S. court to rule on issue today”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2084230/Secret-interviews-IRA-terrorists-linking-Gerry-Adams-unsolved-murder-public.html#ixzz1iySeoN7d
http://www.irishcentral.com/story/news/periscope/the-real-truth-about-the-boston-college-taped-ira-interviews-137168868.html
Niall O’Dowd hits at the real truth around the guarantees on confidentiality.
Here is what McIntyre told a radio interviewer: “The assurances from Boston College were very firm.”
How then does this gel with a Boston College affidavit introduced in the court which directly denies this statement?
The affidavit states, “Prior to the commencement of the project, Robert K. O’Neill, the Burns librarian (where the tapes were to be housed) cautioned Moloney that although he had not spoken yet with Boston College’s counsel, the library could not guarantee the confidentiality of the interviews in the face of a court order.”
Excerpts from the fax from O’Neill to Moloney have already been posted.
Further Jack Dunn from Boston College states,
“The (donation) agreement between Moloney and McIntyre is bound by an earlier agreement, Agreement ‘A,’ which states each interviewee is to be given a contract guaranteeing confidentiality to the extent American law allows.”
“So Boston College is clear on that, and Moloney and McIntyre, either through legal inexperience or not checking properly, continued with the interviews on shaky legal grounds, which have now precipitated an almighty furor.”
Bodton College do not make the law; they must abide by the law. Moloney and posibly McIntryre are ok as they were only following journalistic orders.
I feel a bit sorry for Dolours Price who should have remembered the old omerta maxim of whatever you say, say nothing.
Of course, if bigwigs end up in the can, ex male bonum.