Interesting. And the FBI knew about the violent nature of Tim McViegh because the Michigan Militia had reported his violent tendacies. After OKC occurred, Clinton attempted to bash the Extreme Right Wingers (including Rush) with promoting Tim McVieghs kind of violent anti-government behavior (Tim's own writing indicates he was actually an anarchist). Some have even speculated that Clinton's handling of this domestic terrorism event actually helped him win reelection.
If Clinton et. al. were protecting these Al Qeada terrorists, what possible benefit could Clinton/Gore attain ?
"Relaxing on Air Force One after the 1996 elections, Bill Clinton told a pool of reporters that he owed his political revival to the Oklahoma Bombing. He was in a reflective mood, looking back at the ups and downs of his turbulent presidency. As so often, his thoughts lingered on those first painful months after the Republicans captured both Houses of Congress for the first time in almost two generations. It had been a stinging rebuke for the White House. But then that bomb went off." The Secret Life of Bill Clinton - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard - Page 3.
Writing in The London Sunday Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard describes how things had changed by election night 1996. "Relaxing on Air Force One after the election, Bill Clinton told reporters it was the Oklahoma bombing that proved the turning point in his political fortunes. It was the moment when the militias, the Christian Right and the Gingrich onslaught against government all melded together in the public mind as one rampant movement of extremism. `It broke a spell in the country as the people began searching for our common ground again,' Clinton explained."
If Clinton et. al. were protecting these Al Qeada terrorists, what possible benefit could Clinton/Gore attain ?
Turmoil for Republicans. Looks like it's working too.