FBI Waited to Check Out Tip on Nichols - OKC

AP ^ | April 14, 2005

[Shermy]

Gettin' stranger.

[rellimpank]

--the crack Richard Jewell investigative team continues its work---nearly ten years later--

[Peach]

Ping.

[cripplecreek]

To quote Jim Traficant.

"The FBI and CIA are so stupid they could throw themselves at the ground and miss."

[doug from upland]

Jayna Davis is going to win a Pullitzer.

[maestro]

.....waiting for Mel Gibson's movie on this one.....

:-(

[Western Phil]

"Yousef"

This fellow is quite interesting.

[microgood]

The bureau did not act more quickly because Scarpa failed a lie detector test

I cannot believe they still use those things. When they caught that monster sex offender that abducted and killed that little girl in Florida and buried her 150 yards away they were suspecting the grandma because she did not pass their ridiculous test.

[Navy Patriot]

FBI: Federal Bureau of Idiots.

[DoughtyOne]

Yep, the FBI plays it safe once again. DAMF

[infidel29]

"I'm more concerned that the FBI didn't do a thorough job investigating this location 10 years ago than I am about how long it took to follow through on an informant's tip," Rohrabacher said.

And she would know about wasting time since it took over a month to read the fax she recieved on "March 1 or 2".

[WilliamofCarmichael]

This morning on KSFO Jayna Davis said that Congressman Dana Rohrabacher called her and said that he'd read her book "The Third Terrorist" and wants to hold hearings. She expects that the hearings will be this summer.

(No surprise that Sen. Spector reneged on the same promise years ago but I don't think the Congressman is one of those.)

Hundreds of Americans suffered abuse, ridicule, and even threats of violence for years but they finally got serious investigations of Ruby Ridge and Waco.

It's time for OKC.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Astounding.

The bureau did not act more quickly because Scarpa failed a lie detector test

Why does it seem as if the feds spend about 1000% more effort trying to debunk a tip than actually investigating it? The bureaucratic mindset has thoroughly infected this host. "Let's look for a reason to ignore this tip so that we don't have to act." For crying out loud. The ignore the tip based on a polygraph?

[GregoryFul]

From Janya Davis' book, "The Third Terrorist", Yousef was expert in bombs. He developed a process to carry items through airport "security" to arrange into sophisticated time bombs. And by placing these bombs over the center wing fuel tank, could take them down. Hmmm. TWA800, anybody?

[ReadyNow]

I'm sure glad that no Muslims had anything to do with the OKC bombing. If they had, they'd have shown us that they can strike deep into America's heartland.

And as a religion of peace, that's not anything they'd be interested in.

I'm also glad that Muslims had nothing to do with TWA 800.

I know these things because my government tells me they are true.

[Sacajaweau]

Freak'n unbelievable. They search grannies at the airport and ignore "real" data. The only info they didn't have was the latitude and longitude of the "stuff".

[Tacis]

Will this story make Scarpa a much more sought after guest at the prison teas and cotillions?

The FBI's problem here is that they long had an agent/contact in the McVeigh-Nichols cell and they knew exactly what was to happen and when. FBI superstars from DC were to arrive in the nick of time and help save the day. They got hung up, the locals were unable to act alone and BOOM! What was supposed to be a modest explosion ignited munitions that weren't supposed to be stored in an urban federal facility and the result was, of course, massive cover up!!

McVeigh never said anything because of his loyalty to the other cell members, even the one(s) talking to the FBI. But, McVeigh was wavering and before he started to talk, the aauthorities had to get rid of him. The Jim McDougal disposal technique wouldn't work, so they expeditiously executed him, before he talked.

[rwfromkansas]

Dana seems to be a good guy.

[Loyal Buckeye]

Planted by the mob to help Scarpa get time off?