Member

The noble Baroness, Lady O’Loan, was right about the documents she gave as examples: it seems very strange that some of them have been withheld for this length of time. It is hard to see what could be at stake in these documents—I am glad to see her nod in agreement—and I agree with her completely on that. By the way, I do not think that any documents were withheld from me, and no evidence has shown that. Trucks arrived at my house and my garage is still full of these papers. They include intelligence reports; documents showing what the senior Army commanders, other members of the Cabinet and members of the then Northern Ireland Government were thinking; intelligence reports coming out of Bogside at the time; and an informant’s report featuring a long conversation with Martin McGuinness, in which he claimed to have felt a degree of guilt over what happened on Bloody Sunday. I see no evidence that anything was withheld.