Richard Andrew Hall (*) face o retrospectiva a personajelor Voinea, Tismaneanu si Iliesiu, pour les connaisseurs

from https://romanianrevolutionofdecember1989.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/the-romanian-revolution-for-dum-dums-by-richard-andrew-hall/

Sorin Iliesiu, who is a filmmaker and Vice President of the “Civic Alliance” organization, has written that he was part of the “team” that “edited” the seven page chapter on the Romanian Revolution contained in the Report of the Presidential Commission to Analyze the Communist Dictatorship of Romania (PCACDR). He is not a scholar and most certainly not a scholar of the December 1989 events. A textual comparison of the Report’s chapter on the Revolution and Vladimir Tismaneanu’s chapter in a Dawisha and Parrott edited volume from 1997 is unambiguous: the introductory two paragraphs of the Report’s chapter are taken verbatim in translation from p. 414 of Tismaneanu’s 1997 chapter, and other verbatim paragraphs, sentences, and phrases from pp. 414-417 make up parts of the rest of the Report’s Revolution chapter without any reference to the 1997 chapter. As the author(s) of an earlier chapter in the Report cite(s) Tismaneanu’s 1997 chapter (see p. 376 fn. 55) correctly, this leaves really only two possible explanations for the failure of Iliesiu et. al. to cite that they have borrowed wholesale from Tismaneanu’s 1997 chapter: a) an absence of scholarly knowledge, or b) an attempt to mask their dependence upon and deference to Tismaneanu, the Chair of the Commission, since the citations that do appear are the exact citations from the 1997 chapter and claims are translated word-by-word, so much so that Iliesiu et. al. did not even bother to change verb tenses despite the passage of a decade. Iliesiu et. al. can attempt to avoid answering questions and attempt to change the subject, but the textual analysis is unambiguous: Tismaneanu’s unattributed 1997 chapter forms the bulk of the Report’s chapter on the Revolution. The only question that needs to be answered is: why and why are they unwilling to admit the textual identicality?

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from https://romanianrevolutionofdecember1989.wordpress.com/2010/02/19/bullets-lies-and-videotape-romania-december-1989-2009/

According to Sorin Iliesiu, the filmmaker who claims to have edited the chapter on December 1989 in the so-called Tismaneanu Raport Final, the “spirit of Voinea’s findings can be found in the Chapter.”  Indeed, the chapter includes snippets from an interview between Dan Voinea and Andrei Badin (Adevarul , December 2006).  The “indefatigable” Voinea, as Tom Gallagher has referred to him, continues to be defended by Vladimir Tismaneanu who has expressed support for Voinea’s investigations “from both a juridic and historic viewpoint” (see the entries for 21 September 2009 at https://tismaneanu.wordpress.com), avoiding any mention of the reasons for Voinea’s dismissal from the Military Procuracy, mistakes that Prosecutor General Laura Codruta Kovesi says “one wouldn’t expect even from a beginner” (for more on this and background, see Hall 2008):

Ce îi reproşaţi, totuşi, lui Voinea? Punctual, ce greşeli a făcut în instrumentarea cauzelor?

Sunt foarte multe greşeli, o să menţionez însă doar câteva. Spre exemplu, s-a început urmărirea penală faţă de persoane decedate. Poate îmi explică dumnealui cum poţi să faci cercetări faţă de o persoană decedată! Apoi, s-a început urmărirea penală pentru fapte care nu erau prevăzute în Codul Penal. În plus

, deşi nu a fost desemnat să lucreze, spre exemplu, într-un dosar privind mineriada (repartizat unui alt procuror), domnul procuror Dan Voinea a luat dosarul, a început urmărirea penală, după care l-a restituit procurorului de caz. Vă imaginaţi cum ar fi dacă eu, ca procuror general, aş lua dosarul unui coleg din subordine, aş începe urmărirea penală după care i l-aş înapoia. Cam aşa ceva s-a întâmplat şi aici.

Mai mult, a început urmărirea penală într-o cauză, deşi, potrivit unei decizii a Înaltei Curţi de Casaţie şi Justiţie, era incompatibil să mai facă asta. E vorba despre dosarul 74/p/1998 (dosar în care Voinea l-a acuzat pe fostul preşedinte Ion Iliescu că, în iunie 1990, a determinat cu intenţie intervenţia în forţă a militarilor împotriva manifestanţilor din Capitală – n.r.).

Apoi au fost situaţii în care s-a început urmărirea penală prin acte scrise de mână, care nu au fost înregistrate în registrul special de începere a urmăririi penale. Aceste documente, spre exemplu, nu prevedeau în ce constau faptele comise de presupuşii învinuiţi, nu conţin datele personale ale acestora. De exemplu, avem rezoluţii de începere a urmăririi penale care-l privesc pe Radu Ion sau pe Gheorghe Dumitru, ori nu ştim cine este Gheorghe Dumitru, nu ştim cine este Radu Ion.

„Parchetul să-şi asume tergiversarea anchetelor”

Credeţi că, în cazul lui Voinea, au fost doar greşeli sau că a fost vorba de intenţie, ştiind că acuzaţii vor scăpa?

Nu cunosc motivele care au stat la baza acestor decizii şi, prin urmare, nu le pot comenta.

Poate fi vorba şi despre complexitatea acestor dosare?

Când ai asemenea dosare în lucru, nu faci astfel de greşeli, de începător. Eşti mult mai atent când ai cauze de o asemenea importanţă pentru societatea românească.

Excerpted from https://www.evz.ro/articole/detalii-articol/868918/Kovesi-despre-revolutia-ratata-a-lui-Voinea-A-gresit-ca-un-incepator/

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from https://romanianrevolutionofdecember1989.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/the-1989-romanian-revolution-as-geopolitical-parlor-game-brandstatter%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%9Ccheckmate%E2%80%9D-documentary-and-the-latest-wave-in-a-sea-of-revisionism-part-four/

It is telling that when one reads the analysis of the “mysteries of the Revolution” in National Public Radio commentator Andrei Codrescu’s engaging “The Hole in the Flag” or in Matei Calinescu and Vladimir Tismaneanu’s penetrating “The 1989 Revolution and Romania’s Future”—both of which appeared in 1991—French sources dominate the discussion of what happened in December 1989.  None of the skepticism about the accuracy of the French sources—as related in the comments of Popovici, Floca, and Stoica above—is voiced in these accounts.

Continuarea la The Walls Come Tumbling Down…

(*) Cine este Richard Andrew Hall:

(aka Rich Hall, Richard A. Hall; others for whatever reason have referred to me as Andrew Hall or Rich Andrew Hall )

Born 1966

Education:

Ph.D. Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN:  August 1990-February 1997

Dissertation: “Rewriting the Revolution: Authoritarian Regime-State Relations and the Triumph of Securitate Revisionism in Post-Ceausescu Romania”

B.A. with Highest Distinction, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA:  August 1984-May 1988

Thesis: “The Economic, Social, and Political Effects of the Hungarian New Economic Mechanism (NEM), 1968-1988″

Research languages:  Romanian, Hungarian, French.

I am an intelligence analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and have a been an analyst (not agent or spy, thank you) since joining the Agency in late September 2000.  A careful comparison of the chapters from my Ph.D. dissertation (December 1996, several of which I have posted on this site) and my Fall 1999 article in East European Politics and Societies (EEPS) The Uses of Absurdity: The Staged War Theory and the Romanian Revolution of December 1989, with my publications–posted on this site–since joining the Agency, show clearly the consistency of my line of analysis between then and now, and show that my later publications are a further development of the facts and arguments spelled out in those original publications.  It is important to emphasize that prior to being hired in 2000–and thus including all my prior time in Romania–I had no association whatsoever with CIA.  As I have previously noted, I was a Romania political analyst between October 2000 and April 2001, before entering the mandatory analyst training program in May 2001; upon completion of that program in October 2001, I was reassigned to analyze intelligence questions essentially unrelated to Romania or Eastern Europe–issues on which I have worked in one form or another continuously since October 2001.  I began to identify myself as a CIA employee when publishing beginning in 2005 at my then-manager’s suggestion.

This site includes my publications and translations or the originals of media articles used in the writing of those publications and articles directly-related to the arguments raised in those publications with an intentional minimum of contextual commentary.  The material and views presented are very clearly STRICTLY my own PERSONAL ones.  They do not represent my employer, any institution, government, or persons other than myself, and I kindly ask the readers recognize and respect this fact.  Thank you.

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