(purely personal views, based on decades of prior research and publication)

Just great…just f-ing great…I have long suspected and, later been able to demonstrate, the compromised backgrounds of military prosecutors such as Teodor Ungureanu, and in particular Dan Voinea (!), and how that matches up with their curious efforts to whitewash to role of the former Securitate, especially in the post-22 December 1989 mayhem and bloodshed. Cluj appeared somewhat different, in part because of the comparative lack of post-22 December 1989 bloodshed and in part because the role of the Army for the violence of 21 December 1989 seemed clearer. Still, as I hope to detail in future episodes, there were eyewitness accounts that emerged through the years, that raised questions about the findings in the case of the Cluj investigations. Thanks in part to online discussions with C.A., I have begun to look back on the Cluj case.

Military Prosecutor Tit-Liviu Domsa played a prominent role in the Cluj investigations. Siani-Davies, Deletant, and other Western researchers were willing to take his findings pretty much at face value. Why not?–some might say. After all, if the Romanian media and intellectuals are not themselves questioning things, how the heck are non-Romanians supposed to know? Of course, one clue in retrospect, is how the Cluj case in the late 1990s was a focus of the daily Ziua of former Securitate collaborator Sorin Rosca Stanescu. However, it is the career of Tit Liviu Domsa, the chief military prosecutor in the case, that should have raised skepticism–especially if you put it together with the contestation by the Army and others in 1990 that he was untrustworthy because of his past.

Below, in this first episode, the background of Tit Liviu Domsa, highlighted by Ceausescu era dissident, Doina Cornea (column 4, second paragraph), and her son, and picked up by the Armagedon 7 report and author Doina Jela.

https://www.mediafax.ro/social/fiul-doinei-cornea-despre-o-practica-des-intalnita-in-justitie-dupa-1989-cei-care-cerceteaza-sa-fie-tocmai-procurori-comunisti-18131076
https://www.scribd.com/doc/64260107/Lista-Fostilor-Securisti-Din-SRI-SIE-Si-Din-Structurile-Puterii#scribd

“Domsa Tit-Liviu
Colonel de Justitie, procuror militar. A dispus arestarea Doinei Cornea in noiembrie 1987 si apoi prelungirea mandatului, sub invinuirile de ”instigare publica si apologie a infractiunii”, pedepsite la data respectiva prin articolul 324 al. 1 al Codului penal, si pentru ”propaganda impotriva orinduirii socialiste”, prin art. 166, al. 2 c.p. Dupa revolutia din 1989, la adapost de orice penalitate, s-a insarcinat sa-l scoata basma curata si pe generalul Serbanoiu, anchetatorul cunoscutei disidente.”
p. 97 https://www.ziuaconstanta.ro/images/stories/2020/11/ZIUA/carti-online/lexiconul-negru-al-securitatii-de-doina-jela-watermark.pdf

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Thanks to the online Cluj University Library (http://dspace.bcucluj.ro), we have access to some of the early 1990 expression of suspicion with regard Domsa’s past connections to the Securitate, and his early conduct of investigations into the bloodshed of December 1989: Adevarul in Libertate (Cluj), 3 martie 1990; 10 martie 1990 (see Ilie Calian’s “question,” column 1 especially)