Boston College Hires US Attorney Who Pursued IRA Tapes

You couldn’t make this up if you tried.

When the British government and the PSNI pursued the Troubles-related oral history archive at Boston College using subpoenas and the full weight of the federal court system, the American official in charge of the operation was Massachusetts US Attorney Carmen Ortiz.

Former US Attorney for Massachusetts and now Boston College law lecturer, Carmen Ortiz

Once Donald Trump replaced Barrack Obama in the White House, Ortiz was out of a job. But not for long. Boston College has hired her to join the law faculty for a semester.

So the woman who took the oral history achive away from Boston College has now been given a job by Boston College.

You can read the full story here. As I said, you couldn’t make it up.