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THE SHADE OF THE CLOUD OF

ARROWS
"IT OCCURRED TO ME, IN CALIFORNIA IN JUNE AND IN ATLANTA IN JULY AND IN NEW ORLEANS
IN AUGUST, IN THE COURSE OF WATCHING FIRST THE CALIFORNIA PRIMARY AND THEN THE
DEMOCRATIC AND REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTIONS, THAT IT HAD NOT BEEN BY ACCIDENT
THAT THE PEOPLE WITH WHOM I HAD PREFERRED TO SPEND TIME IN HIGH SCHOOL HAD, ON
THE WHOLE, HUNG OUT IN GAS STATIONS." -- JOAN DIDION

MONDAY, APRIL 25, 2016

What the Anthony McIntyre Subpoena is Not

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British and Irish newspapers have begun to cover the latest subpoena

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served on Boston College for Belfast Project materials, and some are
getting big parts of the story wrong. Most egregiously, David Lawler
writes in the Telegraph that the newly subpoenaed materials "could
shed light on the infamous abduction of Jean McConville in 1972."
Doubling down, Lawler's story later ascribes this view to the Police
Service of Northern Ireland: "The PSNI believes McIntryre's interviews
with former IRA members could indicate what role, if any, Gerry

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Adams had in the kidnap and murder of McConville."

Not true. Not close to true.
Start with the subpoena itself, which directly declares the categories
of crime that are supposedly under investigation:

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former infantry
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Military Justice has Shaped America,

from the Revolution to 9/11 and
Beyond," forthcoming from W.W.
Norton.
V I E W M Y C O M PL E TE PR O FI L E

The subpoena sent to Boston College tells us that police are

investigating "alleged violations of the laws of the United Kingdom,
namely, attempted murder, possession of explosives with intent to
endanger life, possession of an imitation firearm with intent to commit
an indictable offence, and membership of a proscribed organization."
Notice the absence from that list of the crimes of kidnapping and
murder, the two things that were done to Jean McConville.
But that's only one of the reasons we know this new subpoena isn't
about Jean McConville. Recall that Boston College received two sets of
subpoenas back in 2011: A first set for particular interviews undertaken
with Dolours Price and Brendan Hughes, and a second (and later) set
requesting all interviews that described the McConville matter.
Burns Librarian Robert O'Neill, the university official responsible for
archiving the Belfast Project, told the federal district court that he was
unfamiliar with the collection he had spent years receiving and

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cataloging. That claim led Judge William Young to perform a complete

in camera review of every IRA interview in the collection, personally
determining which interview materials were germane to a request for
evidence in the McConville case. Young ordered all of those
materials sent to the PSNI.
Now: The PSNI has returned to Boston, through the agency of the US
Attorney's Office, to seek Anthony McIntyre's interviews, so...
1.) The PSNI doesn't already have McIntyre's interviews, but
2.) Four years ago, every Belfast Project interview with
material about the McConville murder was sent to the PSNI.
Therefore, McIntyre's interviews were not among those that contained
material about the McConville killing. Because they would already be in
Belfast, lodged with the police, if they did.
Anthony McIntyre's interviews don't contain information about the
McConville killing, and the new subpoena doesn't mention kidnapping
or murder. It's not at all correct to link this new subpoena for
McIntyre's interviews to McConville. Stop doing it.

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