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    • Motion of Boston College for 10 Day Enlargement of Time to File Its Opening Brief
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    • Order Staying 1-20-2012 Order
    • BRIEF OF APPELLANT TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    • Government’s Order for Extending the Time to July 6, 2012 Within Which It Must File Its Responsive Brief
    • McIntyre Application for Judicial Review – Belfast
    • McIntyre Affidavit – Belfast
    • Government’s Motion for Order for Extending the Time to July 13, 2012 Within Which It Must File Its Responsive Brief
    • First Circuit Court of Appeals Ruling
    • Brief of the United States (in response to Boston College)
    • Reply Brief of the Appellant Trustees of Boston College
    • Appellant Petition for Panel Hearing or Rehearing En Banc
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    • Motion To Stay Mandate Pending The Filing Of A Petition For Writ Of Certiorari
    • October 1 2012 Supreme Court Order
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    • October 17 2012 Supreme Court Order: Stay Granted
    • Supreme Court Petition for a Writ of Certiorari
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    • Brief of Social Science Scholars as Amici Curiae Supporting Petitioners
    • Brief Amicus Curiae of ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression in Support of Petitioners
    • Brief Amicus Curiae of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Support of Petitioners
    • Boston College moves that the Court vacate the District Court’s January 20, 2012, Findings and Order and dismiss appeal as moot
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  • Respondent
    • Moloney Agreement
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    • Hughes Agreement
    • Affidavit of Thomas E. Hachey
    • Affidavit of Robert K. O’Neill
    • Affidavit of Ed Moloney
    • Affidavit of Anthony McIntyre
    • Affidavit of Clifford M. Kuhn
    • Receipt for In Camera Filing, 21 December 2011
    • Receipt for In Camera Filing, 27 December 2011
  • US Government
    • Exhibit 1: Sunday Life
    • Exhibit 2: Irish News
    • Exhibit 3: 1973 Scotsman Report
    • Exhibit 4: New York Times
    • Exhibit 5: Boston Globe
    • Exhibit 6: Boston Globe (2)
    • Exhibit 7: Interpol
    • Exhibit 8: The Good Friday Agreement
    • Exhibit 9: Gerry McGeough
    • Exhibit 10: O’Neill letter to Moloney
    • Exhibit 11: Sample Agreements
  • Intervenors
    • Exhibit A: Decision
    • Exhibit B: CRS Report
    • Exhibit C: Order of December 27, 2011
    • Exhibit D: Affidavit of Ed Moloney
    • Exhibit E: Affidavit of Anthony McIntyre
    • Exhibit F: Affidavit of Carrie Twomey
    • Exhibit G: European Arrest Warrant Procedures
    • Exhibit H: Congressional Record
    • Exhibit B, Motion for Preliminary Injunction, Affidavit of Jacqueline Bradley
    • Exhibit C to Plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction: Independent Commission for the Location of Victims’ Remains website screenshot; Hunt for Northern Ireland Disappeared Could be Disrupted, Guardian, July 4, 2011; PSNI Could Hinder Legal Searches, BBC, July 4, 2011
    • Exhibit A, Affidavit of Ed Moloney
    • Exhibit B, Affidavit of Anthony McIntyre
    • Exhibit C, US-UK MLAT
    • Exhibit D, CRS Report on Extradition Treaty
    • Exhibit E, Congressional Record
    • Exhibit F, European Arrest Warrant Procedures
  • Background Information
    • Columbia Oral History Policy, 2000
    • Senate Executive Report 109-19
    • Jean McConville Investigation
    • Irish News Interview with Dolours Price
    • Sunday Life
    • Threats to Researcher and Research Participants
    • Preface to Voices From the Grave
    • Voices from the Grave – Documentary
    • Boston College Confidentiality – Public references to agreement
    • Boston College Publications
    • Brendan Hughes: A Life in Themes
    • Brehon Law Society Letter
    • Final Report of the IICD
    • Concerns Expressed by the ICLVR
    • IAUC Letter to Eric Holder
    • Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement Debate
    • CNN: Secrets of the Belfast Project
    • The Troubles in Northern Ireland: 2012
  • Congress
    • Senator John Kerry’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Congressman Gary Ackerman’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
    • Congressman Joe Crowley’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Senator Robert Menendez’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Congressman Eugene O’Flaherty’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Senator Charles Schumer Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Senator Scott Brown’s letter to Attorney General Holder and Secretary of State Clinton
    • Congressman Bill Pascrell’s Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Congressman Steven Rothman’s Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Congressman Mike Doyle’s Letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Senator Frank Lautenberg’s letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Congressman Murphy’s letter to Attorney General Eric Holder and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
    • Senator Lugar’s letter to Attorney General Holder
    • Congressman Critz’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
    • Congressman Sires’ letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
    • Department of Justice Response to Senator Lugar
    • Senator Cardin’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
    • Congressman Neal’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
    • Senator Casey’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
    • Congressman Pallone’s Letter to Secretary of State Clinton and Attorney General Holder
    • Senator Gillibrand’s letter to Secretary of State Clinton
    • Congressman Brian Higgins’ Letter Secretary to of State Hillary Clinton and Attorney General Eric Holder
    • Congressman Robert Brady’s Letter to Secretary of State John Kerry and Attorney General Eric Holder
    • Senator Menendez Letter to Secretary Kerry (April, 2013)
    • Senator Menendez letter to Secretary Kerry (June 2013)
  • Dáil
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    • Dáil Debates – 10 July 2012
    • Dáil Debates – 12 March 2013
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Previous Audio & Transcript

https://bostoncollegesubpoena.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/071014bpr.mp3 WGBH Boston Public Radio interviews Kevin Cullen: The simmering tensions in Belfast over an oral history project at Boston College (starts 1.28.00)

https://bostoncollegesubpoena.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/anthony.mp3 WGBH Boston Public Radio interviews Anthony McIntyre and Carrie Twomey: Boston College, Carmen Ortiz, Ireland and Obama

https://bostoncollegesubpoena.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/20140503_rteradio1-marianfinucane-bostoncoll_c20572998_20573014_232_.mp3 RTE's Marian Finucane interviews Anthony McIntyre: Former Provisional IRA member and historian Anthony McIntyre talks about his involvement with the Boston College tapes project.

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1191527-interview-with-anthonymcintyre-about-the-belfast-project-boston-college-tapes.mp3 Alan Meban interviews Anthony McIntyre: Belfast Project “an invitation to engage in deep moral reflection on the consequences of war”

Boston College: Petition

BC AAUP petition asking Boston College administration to account for itself (archive copy)

Hearing

Moloney & McIntyre - First Circuit Court of Appeals HearingApril 4, 2012
Click here for Audio & Transcript of oral arguments

United States Attorney General Eric Holder:

Petition for withdrawal of the subpoena he issued on behalf of the British Government. (archive copy)

Hearing

Boston College Appeal Against Second Subpoena: First Circuit Court of AppealsSeptember 7, 2012
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First Circuit Court of Appeals

May, 2013
“… we must forcefully conclude that preserving the judicial power to supervise the enforcement of subpoenas in the context of the present case, guarantees the preservation of a balance of powers… In substance, we rule that the enforcement of subpoenas is an inherent judicial function which, by virtue of the doctrine of separation of powers, cannot be constitutionally divested from the courts of the United States. Nothing in the text of the US-UK MLAT, or its legislative history, has been cited by the government to lead us to conclude that the courts of the United States have been divested of an inherent judicial role that is basic to our function as judges.”

“… the district court acted within its discretion in ordering their production, it abused its discretion in ordering the production of a significant number of interviews that only contain information that is in fact irrelevant to the subject matter of the subpoena.”

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