These recent news sources other that WND confirm the judge's orders and the basic facts.
Cleveland Plain Dealer; Salt Lake Tribune; MSNBC; Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, VA; Fort Worth Star Telegram; Washington Post; Los Angeles Times, Associated Press.
I'll pick one at random. Who could also be more interested in protecting the Clinton administration than believing WorldNetDaily? LA Times, I guess.
The LA Times article is actually by MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN, Associated Press Writer, he says, "the FBI has found more than 340 internal documents that it once said couldn't be found under an open-records request. But the bureau still wants to avoid or delay releasing them."
More, besides U.S. District Judge Dale A. Kimball in Salt Lake City "five other judges have ordered the bureau to do a better job searching its records in response to other Freedom of Information Act requests."
More, the LA Times states, "The case involves a search for records about possible links between the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and a gang of white supremacist bank robbers. The documents were requested by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, seeking evidence for his theory that his brother Kenneth was murdered in a federal prison isolation cell in Oklahoma City in August 1995."
Furthermore, "David M. Hardy, chief of the FBI's records/information dissemination section, wrote in a declaration that using 12 search terms derived from Trentadue's original request, two FBI analysts searching the Oklahoma City bombing case's computerized text files had found 340 potentially relevant documents. That case has about 1.1 million pages of files. Hardy said the 340 documents needed to be further reviewed to be sure they were relevant and to see if parts should be withheld.
"Hardy also wrote that his staff had manually searched the other five case files, which total 7,500 pages, and found an undisclosed number of potentially relevant documents which also still had to be reviewed." [End excerpts]
But nothing so far about SPLC and Morris Dees. Here are some older news articles from page one of several pages of search results: msnbc.msn.com; www.wtopnews.com; www.cbsnews.com.
Who might be more interested in protecting both the Clinton administration and the SPLC than believing anything WND says? I'll guess CBS. Here's what the Jan. 21, 2005 CBS article said,
"Last summer, Trentadue requested:
" * A Jan. 4, 1996, teletype from FBI Director Louis Freeh's office to the Oklahoma City and Omaha, Neb., offices that discussed the 1995 Oklahoma City federal building bombers (the FBI's OKBOMB case) and a Midwest gang of bank robbers (the FBI's BOMBROB case). He enclosed a newspaper story with excerpts from the teletype.
" * The FBI's record of an interview Trentadue says he gave an agent and two Justice Department officials Aug. 12, 1996, discussing his dead brother and the bank robbery gang, including one member who resembled Kenneth.
" * All documents about any connection between the Southern Poverty Law Center and eight named individuals from the OKBOMB and BOMBROB investigations or a white supremacist compound in Elohim City, Okla.
"The FBI told Trentadue Nov. 18 it found no documents matching his requests.
"Trentadue responded Nov. 30 by filing with the court a copy of the January 1996 teletype, which he had found in the meantime had been released under FOIA in 1997. Trentadue also submitted a copy of an August 1996 teletype from Freeh's office that said two of the bank robbers were present when Oklahoma City bomber Tim McVeigh called the Elohim City compound. That too was released years earlier under FOIA. . .
"[An FBI spokesman] also declined to say how the "OKBOMB" search could fail to produce the January teletype, in which the first listed subject was "OKBOMB." Trentadue also supplied the correct date, sender, two accurate recipients and direct quotes.
"Despite refusing in court this month to redo the search even after Trentadue supplied copies of two teletypes, the FBI changed its response once The Associated Press inquired about the case.
"FBI spokesman Mike Kortan said that after Trentadue supplied the two documents the FBI was able to find them and would provide him copies." [End excerpt]
These other sources look an awful like the WND article. What's the problem?
the problem? The same problem most conservatives have with NYT. it's called consider the source....
and every WND thread I see, I will call them worldnutdaily. they could say the sky is blue, but it would still call them that. Get used to it.
Mr. Norry started tonight's program with the story and said guests are being lined up for the special program soon.
For those who rarely listen but believe they know all about those "kooks" you are wrong to dismiss them. Both men do legitimate mainstream stories with mainstream experts as well as shows that feature guests talking about UFOs, ghosts, etc.
It took awhile to get Ms Jayna Davis to stay up that late but Mr. Norry finally got her to be a guest a few months ago. Perhaps she will be one of the guests. Likely the gentlemen suing the FBI will be one of the guests IMO.
Mr. Norry gets on my nerves with his constant bashing of the President over getting us into Iraq as well as bashing VP Cheney and Halliburton -- yet, nary a Norry word about Democrat Senator Feinstein's URS Corporation and its billion dollar DoD and Iraq contracts. But it's his program and he does have a couple of regular guests who support President Bush.