Edited on Sat Nov-28-09 11:05 AM by L. Coyote
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http://i3.democracynow.org/2009/11/20/blaseWhat were Jesuits doing 20 years ago? Threatening the Reagan and Bush administrations
with probable impeachment by investigating and revealing the Iran-Contra crimes.
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REV. WILLIAM J. DAVIS, S.J., chair of our board of directors, is director
of Christic Institute West. His investigation of the contra underworld helped
build the case for the Avirgan v. Hull. ....A Roman Catholic priest,
he has lived in Latin America and traveled
widely in the developing world. Father Davis was an official observer at the
1984 elections in Nicaragua. In 1981, he investigated the disappearance of
Charles Horman, a United States citizen whose murder by the Chilean military
was dramatized in Missing, a film directed by Costa Gavras. He is the former
director of the National Jesuit Office of Social Ministries.
Daniel Sheehan, served as General Counsel for the Jesuit National Headquarters,
National Social Ministry Office when Father William J Davis was Director of the National Office.
Daniel Sheehan for nearly five years investigated criminal
activity by United States citizens supporting the contra war and has testified
on his findings before Congress. He also fought for justice in
some of the most celebrated civil lawsuits of the past two decades: Silkwood,
the Pentagon Papers, Wounded Knee, Attica and Greensboro. He was one of the
attorneys representing Stacey Ann Merkt, the first activist in the sanctuary
movement arrested by Federal authorities for sheltering Salvadoran refugees.
Sheehan assembled the legal team that represented Karen Silkwood's family in
Silkwood v. Kerr-McGee and was coordinating counsel in the Greensboro Massacre
case. Shortly after his graduation from Harvard Law School, he joined the legal
team that represented the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case. At
Harvard, he was a cofounder and editor of the Harvard Civil Rights and Civil
Liberties Law Review.
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