Lawyer Of Murdered Nuns' Families: 'I Know' O'Reilly Didn't See Killings

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

Lawyers who once represented the families of slain nuns in El Salvador told liberal watchdog Media Matters in an article published Thursday that there was no way Fox News host Bill O'Reilly had "seen" the killings as he previously said he had.

"I know he didn't see it and nobody saw it and anyone who knew about that incident would have known they were killed in secret," said Scott Greathead, one of the lawyers representing relatives of the nuns during the prosecution of the killers.

"To use the death of four women who were in El Salvador just to do good for your own self-aggrandizement is unsavory," another lawyer who worked with the families told Media Matters, calling O'Reilly's remarks "disgusting" and "reprehensible."

The statements were the latest fallout after a report by Media Matters cast doubt on the Fox host's previous claims to have witnessed murders of the nuns as a reporter.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/oreilly-lawyers-nuns-el-salvador

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

1. And nothing will happen to O'Reilly..his idiot followers actually believe this is a left wing

conspiracy to destroy him.

He will get a raise soon (well, he has a contract and it doesn't work that way, but watch, when he renegotiate his deal he will get more, this is great publicity for him).

[SwankyXomb]

2. If Billo had actually been present for the killings

He most likely would have been one of the victims as well.

[billhicks76]

4. Did He See Them Raped Too?

Cuz they were. By right wing Bush Sr henchmen.

[tiptonic]

3. Raise

He will get a raise, for increasing his ratings, for being a coward-liar.

[calimary]

6. Welcome to DU, tiptonic!

Glad you're here! Sometimes, I swear, it's a misery-loves-company kind of thing for me here. I wish to God that bill o'reilly got the same treatment Brian Williams did. His phony claims are so much more plentiful and outrageous than anything Brian Williams did. But Brian Williams gets thrown off the air for six months without pay. bill o'reilly remains comfortably ensconced. And anyone expecting Pox Noise to do the genuinely right thing - can just sit and warm their expectations til Doomsday. It's a topsy-turvy world sometimes.

Those who embrace the old adage about how "cheaters never prosper" or the one about how "crime doesn't pay" never met the GOP.

[abelenkpe]

5. Unsavory disgusting and reprehensible?

Great bunch of adjectives there. Perfect description of FOX news in general and O'Reilly.

[myrna minx]

7. K&R nt

[Judi Lynn]

8. Wonderfully chosen words perfectly cover a despicable O'Reilly whopper.

Who on earth would want to gain altitude by taking advantage of this hellish, evil abuse of women of peace by right-wing monsters in El Salvador?

Refresher article from earlier days in the New York Times:

4 Salvadorans Say They Killed U.S. Nuns on Orders of Military
By LARRY ROHTER
Published: April 3, 1998

SAN SALVADOR, March 28— After 17 years of silence, all four of the former national guardsmen convicted of killing three American nuns and a lay worker in 1980 have said for the first time that they acted only after receiving ''orders from above.''

The declarations, made from prison, are an important development in the case because El Salvador and the United States have always officially argued that the killers acted on their own. Human rights groups and relatives of the victims, however, have always maintained that the executions were ordered, approved and directed by the military authorities.

The churchwomen -- Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel -- were abducted, raped and shot to death on the night of Dec. 2, 1980. The next day, peasants discovered their bodies alongside an isolated road and buried their remains in a common grave. The van they had been driving when stopped at a military checkpoint turned up 20 miles away, burned and gutted.

The killings came as the United States was beginning a decade-long, $7 billion aid effort to prevent left-wing guerrillas from coming to power here, and the case quickly became the focus of a bitter policy debate about Central America.
''This particular act of barbarism,'' a 1993 State Department report said, ''did more to inflame the debate over El Salvador in the United States than any other single incident.''

In 1993, a United Nations Truth Commission report concluded that Col. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, the director of the National Guard in 1980, and Gen. Jose Guillermo Garcia, the Minister of Defense at the time, had organized an official cover-up. Nevertheless, both men have been granted residence in the United States and now live in Florida, according to public records.

More:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/03/world/4-salvadorans-say-they-killed-us-nuns-on-orders-of-military.html

(My emphasis.)