Moreover, I'm PERFECTLY WILLING to accept that there was someone else involved, but I do not think less of my peers in Okahoma City and Denver, where there have been two grand juries and two petite juries and in all four of these cases, there has been no evidence that anyone but McVeigh and Nichols were the culprits. So I'm real hesistant to claim all these people are part of a "coverup."
Who knows? Maybe to protect his family. I'm always astounded at how quickly McVeigh was executed. He set all kind of records with that.
The Grand Juries (and petit) could only work with what they got, and it seems the FeeBIes were perhaps withholding information.
After Waco, and needing something to take the heat off of the Administration, there may have been orders to make it look as if this was a retributive act in order to take the wind out of any public outcry. It was effective, in that the association was made by media between those who were still concerned about Waco and the bomber(s) at OK City.
A lot of very patriotic Americans were slathered with the broad brush of 'potential' domestic terrorist and effectively muzzled.
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Juries can only consider evidence prsented to them in court. In all these instances, the prosecutors filtered the evidence very heavily to obtain the (predetermined, IMO) results they and their masters wanted.
Read the transcripts of the McVeigh trial, for instance. Of the nearly two dozen eyewitnesses who saw McVeigh in OKC, none (zero, zip, nada) of them were allowed to testify.
Why? Because all of those witnesses had testified (deposed) that McVeigh had someone else with him!
Perhaps McVeigh, who always thought of himself as a patriot, did not want to disclose information that would associate himself with foreign terrorists and brand him as a traitor.
McVeigh did serve in the Gulf War. However, he questioned whether he was doing the right thing. He said in an interview, ""I thought ... what right did I have to come over to this person's country and kill him? How did he ever transgress against me?"
"What did we do to Sudan? What did we do to Afghanistan? Belgrade? What are we doing with the death penalty? It appears they use violence as an option all the time."
Asked whether it is acceptable for citizens to use violence if the government uses it, he said, "I'll let my explanation stand for itself."
IMO McVeigh would rather be viewed as a patriot taking on the USG over Ruby Ridge and Waco than assisting AQ and Iraq in retribution for the Gulf War.
To protect his jihadi brothers? To ensure that they could go on to slaughter more Americans?
Simple. Grand juries can only act on the information presented them! No evidence presented = no other culprits!
WRONG! Read the 1st Grand Jury's Charges. Google it and read for yourself, but here is the most important part that shows your statement is wrong:
The Grand Jury charges:
1. Beginning on or about September 13, 1994 and continuing thereafter until on or about April 19, 1995, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in the Western District of Oklahoma and elsewhere, TIMOTHY JAMES McVEIGH and TERRY LYNN NICHOLS, the defendants herein, did knowingly, intentionally, willfully and maliciously conspire, combine and agree together and with others unknown to the Grand Jury to use a weapon of mass destruction .....
WHY HASN'T THE FBI DONE IT'S JOB AND FOUND THE OTHERS?