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...been no explanation for the timing of the investigation announcement, but relatives including Greig Cunningham believe it could have something to do with a sudden burst of publicity about the case thanks to the release of the Australian-produced film Balibo, which recounts the incident. Based on the book Cover-Up by veteran journalist Jill Jolliffe, who has spent years reporting on East Timor, and featuring actor Anthony LaPaglia, the film presents a brutally frank depiction of the fate of the journalists. Says Cunningham: "Without being cynical, I think it's a nice coincidence that the movie has just come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aussie War-Crimes Probe over Five Slain Journalists | 9/13/2009 | See Source »

...wanted Megrahi to die in prison, but on the other hand saying privately to the Libyans that they wanted him released," said Conservative Party leader David Cameron, calling for an inquiry into the affair. Brown angrily rejected that interpretation of events: "On our part, there was no conspiracy, no cover-up, no double-dealing, no deal on oil, no attempt to instruct Scottish ministers, no private assurances by me to Colonel Gaddafi." (Watch a TIME video with Gordon Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Documents Reveal British Role in Lockerbie Bomber's Release | 9/2/2009 | See Source »

...there was a darker possibility. As a former Bush senior aide explains, "I'm sure the President and [chief of staff] Josh [Bolten] and Fred had a concern that somewhere, deep in there, there was a cover-up." It had been an article of faith among Cheney's critics that the Vice President wanted a pardon for Libby because Libby had taken the fall for him in the Fitzgerald probe. In his grand-jury testimony reviewed by TIME, Libby denied three times that Cheney had directed him to leak Plame's CIA identity in mid-2003. Though his recollection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside Bush and Cheney's Final Days | 7/24/2009 | See Source »

...society. The findings of this most recent report, however, could drive that wedge deeper than ever before. "I don't see how [the religious orders] can ever recover from this," says Raftery. "Not just from the way they responded to the knowledge of abuse [but also] from their continuing cover-up of it over the last decade, when people were trying to get answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Ireland's Catholic Schools, a Catalog of Horrors | 5/21/2009 | See Source »

...further cover-up the fact that I had not executed trades on behalf of my investment advisory clients, I knowingly caused false trading confirmations and client account statements that reflected the bogus transactions and positions to be created and sent to clients purportedly involved in the split strike conversion strategy, as well as other individual clients I defrauded who believed they had invested in securities through me. The clients receiving trade confirmations and account statements had no way of knowing by reviewing these documents that I had never engaged in the transactions represented on the statements and confirmations. I knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bernard Madoff's Full Statement to U.S. District Court | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

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