Killing Finucane: Murder in Defence of the Realm
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (596 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0717135438 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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A former editor, current affairs at UTV, he is the author of two previous books on Irish politics, The Arms Trial and The Modern Prince, a biography of Charles Haughey. Justin O Brien is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Queen s University, Belfast. A specialist in the politics of corruption, he has also written about capital markets malfeasance in Wall Street on Trial.
. A specialist in the politics of corruption, he has also written about capital markets malfeasance in Wall Street on Trial. A former editor, current affairs at UTV, he is the author of two previous books on Irish politics, The Arms Trial and The Modern Prince, a biography of Charles Haughey. About the Author Justin O Brien is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Queen s University, Belfast
This is an explosive and important expose.. It tells of how agents involved in the killing were protected rather than prosecuted, and reveals why this was allowed to happen. Killing Finucane tells the story of Northern Ireland's dirty war from the start of the Troubles and through the 1980s and 90s. These abuses were official government policy: O'Brien demonstrates that MI5 controlled the entire security environment, including Special Branch, and covered its tracks by a deliberate policy of scapegoating alleged rogue operators. The result was the corruption of the state itself and the loss of its claim to moral precedence in the fight against r
Fine account of British state's sponsorship of terrorism in Northern Ireland Justin O'Brien, a lecturer at Queen's University, Belfast, has written a most revealing book about the murder of the solicitor Pat Finucane in 1989.Six weeks before the killing, Junior Northern Ireland Office Minister Douglas Hogg set solicitors up as terrorist targets when he said, "I have to state as a fact, but with great regret, that there are in Northern Ireland a number of solicitors who are unduly sympathetic to the cause of the IRA."The RUC Special Branch knew of the loyalist threat to Fin. Sugafoot said Britain's state sponsored terrorism in northern Ireland exposed. Justin O'Brien's work helps tear the lid off Britain's dirty war in northern Ireland. He exposes how the British government used Protestant death squads as proxies to assassinate those of it's citizenry, like attorney Pat Finucane, who were deemed too sympathetic to the IRA. This is also the story of how these powerful forces in the military and police perverted justice by protecting their proxies and themselves from prosecution. So sinister were these villains that O'Brien quotes a former police