Overview
- The US-Ireland Alliance board unanimously voted to remove George J. Mitchell’s name and will temporarily refer to participants as US-Ireland Alliance Scholars, with the program already paused since 2024 for endowment fundraising.
- Queen’s University Belfast will remove Mitchell’s name from its Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice and take down his bust, citing consistency with the university’s values and sensitivity to victims and survivors.
- The Justice Department’s latest trove comprises millions of pages, thousands of videos and images, including 2010 and 2013 emails referencing appointments and returned calls involving Mitchell and Jeffrey Epstein.
- Forbes and Reuters note the documents suggest efforts to arrange meetings but do not establish that such meetings occurred, and Mitchell has consistently denied post-2008 contact or any wrongdoing.
- Mitchell has not been criminally charged, and both institutions say they will consult alumni, governments and other stakeholders before settling on permanent naming decisions.