CAPITOL HILL. Thursday,
December 17, 2009 --- The Northern Ireland
police (really the British Government because
justice and policing have not been devolved)
have stripped the Historical Enquiries Team
(HET) of the authority to continue its
investigation into the murders of Raymond Mc
Cord Jr. exposed by Operation Ballast, the
O’Loan Report of 2007. The report found police
collusion not only in the Mc Cord killing but
also in over 20 murders.
Young Mc Cord’s father,
Raymond Sr., who gave devastating testimony
before a Congressional Hearing on October 22,
said: “ Security elements are in a state of
panic over the recent Hearing and are alarmed at
the success of the HET in recently charging over
12 people with murder. They also fear that the
HET were about to charge former and serving
police officers with murder”. At the Hearing,
Mc Cord had expressed great confidence in the
HET and called for their funding to be
increased.
In Washington, Fr. Sean Mc
Manus, president of the Capitol Hill-based Irish
National Caucus, who worked closely with Mr. Mc
Cord in arranging the Congressional Hearing,
reacted: “ If this was done to further cover –up
police collusion, then it may be the worst
collusion of all – coming at a time when we are
told that collusion has ended. The only thing
that makes the original crime worse is the
cover-up – as certain Catholic Bishops have
learnt to their cost and to the outrage of the
Faithful.Irish-Americans must not take this
lying down and the US congress must not be
silent”.
