Bloody Sunday Mini History

On Counterpunch.  I wasn't there--duh--but I know for certain that less than a second after the first shot rang out, the coverup began, and that coverup continued straight through the 2010 report.  The main fact is that Bloody Sunday was not a mistake; it was instead a natural continuation of British policy.  Those sorts of flagrant expressions of violent and criminal policy--with 14 peaceful civilians shot dead in the street by uniformed soldiers--tend to look really bad in the papers, and that is real problem for the responsible parties.  So, if the report was a coverup or a whitewash or a steaming pile of horseshit, that is no surprise to any of us.