Fox News is reporting on a report due out this week that sheds new light on the Oklahoma City Bombing. We have talked about the fact that there is evidence that points to the fact that many of the witnesses may have been telling the truth but the FBI rushed to “get their man”.Â
Rohrabacher’s report cites several leads the subcommittee believes were not fully investigated, including:
- “information that McVeigh called a German citizen living at a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma two weeks before the bombing and that two witnesses saw the men together before the bombing.
- “witness accounts that another man was seen with McVeigh around the time of the bombing. The FBI originally looked for another suspect it named John Doe 2, even providing a sketch, but abruptly dropped that line of inquiry. The subcommittee concludes that decision was a mistake.
- “findings in AP articles in 2003 and 2004 that indicated the FBI had gathered some evidence suggesting a group of neo-Nazi bank robbers may have been tied to McVeigh. The subcommittee interviewed three of those robbers, and all denied a connection. A fourth member of the gang died and a fifth member could not be located by Congress.
- “phone record and witness testimony that persons associated with Middle Eastern terrorism in the Philippines may have had contact with Nichols, and that Nichols took a book about explosives to the Philippines. The FBI and Filipino police spent months investigating such a connection, but ruled it out.
- “information from a former TV reporter concerning an Iraqi national who was in Oklahoma around the time of the bombing.
The Reno FBI just out to get their man without doing a thorough investigation? Say it isn’t so. Just look how well they investigated the case against Randy Weaver and his family at Ruby Ridge, or the Branch Davidians at Waco. They did such a thorough job that they even cut the barrels on the shotguns that Randy Weaver sold them to a length that would make it a felony. (The extra lengths of barrel were found in the FBI agents’ car trunk) They also had the guns recovered from Waco destroyed before any outside firearms experts could confirm that they had been illegally converted to fully automatic versus being legally owned semi automatic rifles. Of course if a defense attorney does that, it’s called destruction of evidence. But hey, this was the era of feel good law enforcement. Constitutionally protected rights involving religion, guns and free speech were bad while committing perjury and obstruction of justice were good.
I don’t recall her name, but there is an investigative Journalist (yes, there are still a few that really do their homework, really “investigate” and not just parrot the offal that AP spews)that has been working on this case for several yewars.
Her information indicates that there is a definite Middle East terrorism connection, that this wasn’t just a Tim McVeigh deal.
Did anyone else think the McVeigh trial was very strange? It was so quick, so open and shut. McVeigh wanted to be executed quickly. We have murderers on death row for 30 years, but McVeigh is executed within a couple of years. Very, very strange.