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Interesting article. I would like to ask Freepers if they have a name or any more information on this Army private. This is the first time I heard of this.

"The man in the sketch was eventually identified by authorities as an Army private.."

I read about it here:

(and no I am not telling you "already posted!") :)

Eldon Elliot: FBI pressured me to drop John Doe 2 claim

(snip...)"The drawings were based on the recollection of a body-shop mechanic. The FBI and federal prosecutors later concluded the mechanic had described instead an innocent Army private who was helping a friend move.

The Army private, Todd Bunting, had gone to the shop a day after McVeigh. Bunting wore a blue-and-white Carolina Panthers hat."

This link INTERVIEW WITH THE GRAND JUROR WHO WOULDN'T SHUT UP, which I do not know either way to be factual, has the following claims by this Grand Juror:

Q: Did you think the government knows who John Doe 2 Is?

A: I began to feel that way, yes. But, of course, all through the trial the prosecution insisted that John Doe 2 was the Ft. Riley soldier Todd Bunting who served in the Army with McVeigh.

Q: But they also said Bunting wasn't guilty of any crime.

A: That's right. And he didn't really look like the FBI artist's sketch of John Doe 2 and he wasn't with McVeigh when McVeigh rented the Ryder truck. The actual John Doe 2 did rent the Ryder truck with McVeigh. The whole thing was ridiculous.

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CNN says Here that Heidelberg was kicked off the Grand Jury after complaining about the suppression on the search for John Doe No. 2.

Lots of John Doe #2 info here. "Dirty Bomber" Jose Padilla sure looks like the sketch.

http://www.whoisjohndoe2.com

America's Fifth Column ... watch Steve Emerson/PBS documentary JIHAD! In America
Download 8Mb File Here (Requires RealPlayer)

Who is Steve Emerson?

The "John Doe Number Two" business may be one of the FBI's more embarrassing glitches. The car rental clerk said he saw a second man - who might have come in with McVeigh, or, equally, might have been completely unconnected to McV and was just browsing in the shop - and he only saw him in profile (the man's left side, I think).

Whereupon the FBI sketch artist, who was so accustomed to working up the standard FBI sketches of fugitives in full face, puffed that profile description into a full face - with the purported suspect's right side, the spacing of the eyes, the width of the face and the mouth, etc. - invented out of thin air. No wonder nobody could find him! It took the FBI about a week to admit to its mistake and by that time the bogus sketch had appeared everywhere and hardly anyone paid attention to the "corrected" sketch.

However, a McDonald's restaurant security camera caught McV on his way to the car rental place and he was alone at that time.

I have no doubt that, at various times, McV was able to strike up conversations with innocent strangers, and this John Doe nr.2 may be that sort of random innocent stranger.