Infliction

“when trying to reconstruct history, dip your bucket as close to the source as possible”

Pete Baker on June 18, 2010, 4:41 pm36 Comments | Readers 13

Former Sunday Times Insight journalist, Peter Pringle, savoured the publication of the Saville Inquiry report. And he had some interesting thoughts on Saville’s methodology But questions about Saville’s report on Bloody Sunday remain to be addressed: how did they sift the evidence? What evidence did they leave in, or out? What did the secret services redact? Why did he take so long? Here’s a suggestion of how to start reading beyond the headlines: look at Saville’s methods for reconstructing history. Mark …

“Martin McGuinness was more likely than not to have been in possession of a Thompson sub-machine gun”

Pete Baker on June 15, 2010, 11:35 pm45 Comments | Readers 152

Saville made no finding on whether Martin McGuinness had “fired a Thompson sub-machine gun from the Rossville Flats”. But, despite Eamonn’s ‘not proven’ claim, it’s more a case of ‘not [fully] tested’. From the Saville Inquiry’s Consideration of the evidence relating to Martin McGuinness [scroll down] 147.349 We were unable to obtain a written statement from Infliction, or call him to give oral evidence. Nor was Martin McGuinness able to question him or even be told who he was. The same applies to the …