The former deputy assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in charge of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing has said that the case should be reopened.
Danny Coulson, a 31-year veteran of the FBI, was deputy assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Division at the time of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City, Okla., which killed 168 people, 19 of them children in an on-site day care center.
Timothy McVeigh was convicted of the bombing in 1997 and executed in 2001.
Mr Coulson said there were some “very strong indicators” that other people were involved with Timothy McVeigh.
The FBI interviewed 24 people who claimed to have seen McVeigh in Oklahoma City with someone else on the morning of the attack, yet the only known accomplice of McVeigh, Terry Nichols, was at home in Kansas over 200 miles away on that day.
The FBI’s investigation concluded that the eyewitnesses were unreliable. However, Danny Coulson says they were “extremely credible” and had no reason to make it up.
“If only one person had seen it, or two of three, but 24? Twenty four people say yes I saw him with someone else. That’s pretty powerful,” he said. — BBC News
The FBI had announced in 2005 that it was reopening the investigation after a Utah man sued the FBI to obtain documents regarding the death of his brother in federal custody. Jesse Trentadue has claimed that his brother was tortured and killed because of his involvement in the bombing. The FBI had said that Kenneth Trentadue committed suicide while in a “suicide-proof cell.”
Sources told the surviving brother that Trentadue was mistaken for a white supremacist from Elohim City, a white supremacist compound in eastern Oklahoma, which the FBI suspected of being involved in the bombing.
Coulson told the BBC that the FBI failed to follow up leads in the Elohim City investigation. The judge in the Trentadue case also blasted the FBI last April for failing to follow up leads in the investigation, and failing to turn over all of the documents referenced in the case. A House subcommittee investigating the case also said (PDF) the FBI was “not justified in calling off any further investigation” into accomplices McVeigh may have had and that “questions remain unanswered and mysteries remain unsolved” in the bombing.
Coulson spoke to the BBC for an upcoming television program, “The Conspiracy Files: Oklahoma Bomb,” which will air in the United Kingdom Sunday at 9 p.m. on BBC Two.
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J. Bruno
Mar 02, 2007
Not to mention:
J. Bruno
Mar 02, 2007
What the hell is this? Where’s the link I posted? There are many ways of dealing with a link that for one reason or another you don’t want posted. Removing just the link itself without explanation, rendering my post completely nonsensical, is not one of them.
Michael Hampton
Mar 03, 2007
I have very few rules around here, especially with respect to comments. But this rule stays. I don’t discriminate between “good” links and “bad” links. If it’s just dangling there, it’s history.
If your comment doesn’t make sense without the link, then it doesn’t make sense at all, and you should have given another two seconds of thought to it anyway.
J. Bruno
Mar 03, 2007
The link was to a youtube video compilation of TV news coverage of the OKC bombing. It was reported over and over again that several bombs were found in the building, contrary to the official story. The relevance of this material is utterly self-explanatory. But I didn’t even challenge this rule (of which I was completely unaware) as you imply. Deleting someone’s remarks without explanation is an intransigent smack in the face, and something I’d expect from government cronies if they knew how to use the Internet for two-way communication. In the future, try and feign a little respect for the people who have read and commented to your blog for a long time.
pat livingston
Mar 03, 2007
I was the guy that positively identified Timothy Mcveigh on April 21,1995 from the composite drawing that I was shown and provided gun records and documents to prove it and also found where Terry Nichols had purchased guns from me also provided them to the FBI. I was subpeoned with about 50 others from here who saw JD2 to the Nichols trial but never had to testify, rumor was that the Attorneys cooked a deal with the government since they could not find JD2 that they would not bring him up if they droped the death penalty. I have a lot of information since I helped on the investigation
Michael Hampton
Mar 03, 2007
The rule is right in front of your face as you’re typing in a comment, so it’s pretty hard to miss. I’m also surprised you didn’t provide a link to the video so that people could watch it.
I also didn’t delete any of your remarks.
In the future, try to feign a little respect for the sites you visit.
Highlander
Mar 03, 2007
Michael,
It might be helpful if you were to demonstrate your desires, by showing those who aren’t savvy with coding, how to do it.
Not everyone is knowledgeable of the mechanics.
And anyway, please explain why bare links are stripped out? Your’s is the only place I’ve see so far which does this. Is there a reason?
Thanks in advance.
Michael Hampton
Mar 03, 2007
At first, I thought you were kidding, especially since they’re listed right above the comment form. After thinking about it a while, I’m afraid you might actually be serious.
I finally decided to kill bare links for two reasons: First, they all too often throw off the site layout in certain browsers, (IE, how I hate you) and second, they are too frequently an indicator that the person posting the link hasn’t actually thought about what he or she is trying to say — or has nothing at all to say, and expects that just throwing out a link will do the talking for them.
Highlander
Mar 03, 2007
Michael,
I am indeed serious regarding the matter of many people not having a clue.
If we are going to win this war against oppressive government, we should all endeavor to read from the same script, using the same language.
So, once again: It would be of great help to those out there not having much experience with coding, to lend a hand.
Not every driver knows how to change a tire, but given the time, and the patience, and a helping hand, they all learn sooner or later.
Let us not divide ourselves. Rather, let us divide government.
Jeff Hoyt
Mar 04, 2007
From the for-what-it’s-worth department:
A book written by Ambrose Evan-Pritchard, titled The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. gives a fair treatment to story and how wretched the investigation was. Published by Regnery in 1997, it is still readily available on Amazon
Jeff
P.S. I never can remember if book titles are supposed to be underlined or italicized…
Highlander
Mar 04, 2007
Jeff,
Apostrophes work just fine for me: ‘The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories.’
But anyway, I’m inclined to believe that Clinton had no clue about the matter, and was as much in the dark as the rest of us. In fact, you might even say that Clinton was much the useful idiot.
Remember: JFK was kept in the dark about Operation Northwoods, and lead-in for the invasion of Cuba, until almost the last minute.
There’s very much a shadow government operating here and about, and until that, and its leaders are fully revealed, we’ll get more of the same.
In the meantime, some of them are revealed in the Congress by their acts, such as Sensenbrenner (R-WIS), who covertly inserted the national ID card legislation into a military funding bill at the last moment with it having a chance to be debated.
Jeff Hoyt
Mar 06, 2007
Highlander,
Thanks for that info about the quotes. Only time will tell if it sticks!
Yes, I agree about Mr. Clinton’s potential involvement. I realize now that my post suggested that I thought he was involved. That wasn’t the intent; in fact, when I read the book, I thought the OKC bombing story was a bit off-topic.
I can remember the heat Mr. C used to get about the Mena airport. Granted, he should have used his authority as governor to deal with it, but the airport was set up with all its goodies during Bush 41’s administration. I never heard anybody on the right mention that.
Also, thanks for comment on Sensenbrenner. I didn’t know that. I have high hopes for the Real ID Act. My wish is that it will be the catalyst for a serious backlash. I think the tree of liberty has long needed watering…
Wishful thinking? Probably; but I can dream, can’t I?
Best to you and all -
Jeff