[Lancey Howard]

I have read your writings on FR and have appreciated your passion on this subject for several years now. It sounds to me like Jayna Davis is a glory hound, more interested in credit for "the scoop" than in the simple dissemination of the truth. And it also sounds like maybe she is in a "you-scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch-yours" relationship with her FBI sources. Maybe these "sources" hold information over her head with the idea that she can get occasional bites at the apple if she just "plays ball" and promises not to let the FBI get trashed. Some kind of quid pro quo. If I got this right, that is pretty lame "journalism", IMO.

[honway]

"you-scratch-my-back, I'll-scratch-yours" relationship with her FBI sources

Another explanation would be that Jayna Davis genuinely believes it is best for the nation if the citizens never find out that the FBI knew of the Middle Eastern connection from the very beginning of the investigation.

The difficult part is you can not have it both ways, you can not expose the Middle Eastern connection without also exposing the criminal conspiracy by the FBI and DOJ to cover up the Middle Eastern connection to the OKC bombing.

I do not believe she has reconciled the dilemma involved in exposing the Middle Eastern connection without exposing the FBI/DOJ conspiracy to cover up the connection.

I have no problem with her position. However to speak through her attorney and denigrate individuals unwilling to accept the impossible postion that there was a Middle Eastern connection and the FBI had no knowledge of the connection in inexcusable.

[honway]

She said she gave prosecutors the information in January but did not reveal the witnesses' identities. Davis said prosecutors never contacted her before she received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury.

The witnesses want to cooperate with the grand jury, but not before they are guaranteed police protection, Davis said. They also want prosecutors "to express a legitimate interest" in pursuing indictments against the suspects they can identify, she said.

Davis said some of the witnesses have received death threats and apparent attempts on their lives, but she would not elaborate.

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Maybe Jayna Davis is simply a realist.
Prosecuting Clinton, Reno, and Freeh for the Clinton Adinistration directed cover up of the Middle Eastern connection is not going to happen.

I guess a realist would understand that prosecuting the Middle Eastern terrorists directly involved is the best you could hope for. Otherwise, you get nothing.