From Across the Pond, Condemnation Over Boston College's IRA Archives

From Across the Pond, Condemnation Over Boston College’s IRA Archives. The school’s recent move to accept court orders and surrender their cache of interviews with former members of the IRA has garnered more than a few headlines between Boston and Ireland — but at the heart of the issue are far deeper questions that go way beyond whether or not to hand over the tapes. As the Guardian’s Roy Greenslade puts it, “it touches directly on the problem all journalists face in protecting confidential sources and, in my opinion, we journalists ought to condemn both the British government for pursuing the action and the US judge for acceding to its request.” [The Guardian]