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Danielle Hunt was the Murrah Building day care center director about a month before the bombing on April 19, 1995. Her husband, Tom E. Hunt, was head of the Federal Protective Services in the Federal Court House across the street from the Murrah Building.
The day care center director on the day of the bombing was Dana LeAnne Cooper and she was killed in the explosion(s).
The Hunts told me they learned the husband and attorney for Dana Cooper claimed she had reported two or three bomb threats to the GSA she had received at the day care center the week before the bombing. The GSA was called because GSA was responsible for security of the Murrah Building.
The Hunts were concerned about how well the GSA responded to Cooper’s reports to GSA of the bomb threats to her at the day care center.
There were several events that indicated GSA may well have responded to Cooper’s information about the bomb threats.
Claude Criss, a licensed private investigator, reported to defense attorney Stephen Jones (recorded in his book “Others Unknown”) that he saw three bomb sniffing dogs with six handlers within a few blocks of the Murrah Building in the morning before the bombing. Could these dogs and handlers have been dispatched by GSA because of the bomb threats reported by Dana Cooper?
The building engineer, Don Rogers, and his assistant, Randy Ledger were instructed most likely by GSA to conduct a search of the Murrah Building for explosives the evening before the bombing according to what Ledger told me.
Bombing survivor V.Z. Lawton has said in numerous interviews in OKC that two GSA employees from Dallas gave him a ride home within a few hours after the bombing, too soon for the GSA employees to have arrived from Dallas. Lawton has questioned whether or not the GSA employees had been sent to OKC in connection with the bomb threats to the day care center or in response to other intelligence.
It is very plausible that the bomb threats called into director Cooper came from McVeigh or someone who helped McVeigh bomb the day care center and the Murrah Building. It is plausible because Danielle Hunt told me that McVeigh had visited her at the day care center in December 1994 to ask her details about security for the day care center. Hunt’s story of being visited by McVeigh was reported by Arnold Hamilton of the Dallas Morning News on October 8, 1995 in a front page article “Bombing Accounts Are Varied”.
Danielle Hunt said she wondered if the bombing had been meant for the 3 or 4 FBI agents she claimed arrived at the Murrah Building punctually at 9 a.m. almost every morning and sometimes dropped off children at the day care center. Since the bombing occurred at 9:02 a.m., close to the same time she knew FBI agents arrived at the Murrah Building, Hunt thought McVeigh could have been targeting the FBI who he held responsible for the WACO tragedy.
The Hunts said that the FBI agents came to the building to conduct business with the Secret Service, BATF, and DEA and to later appear in court across the street in the Federal Court house.
Danielle Hunt was dropped as a witness at the McVeigh trial by the US Attorneys. If she had appeared at the trial, the prosecutors would have risked the public learning of Hunt’s story of the bombing threats conveyed to the GSA and the FBI not being in the Murrah Building and not dropping off children at 9 a.m. when they normally did.
The GSA procedures, policies and criteria should have required the forewarning and evacuation of the Murrah Building when GSA received reports of bomb threats from Dana Cooper. The evacuation particularly should have occurred when the threats may have been taken seriously enough to have bomb sniffing dogs and GSA employees from Dallas dispatched and for bomb searches to have been conducted in the building.
The need for better protective policies, procedures and criteria for evacuating and alerting civilians is further underscored by the revelation of Federal Judge Wayne Alley. Judge Alley told the Oregonian newspaper soon after the OKC bombing that he had been warned about a possible attack on Federal officials in OKC. Alley was warned by the US Marshals and he stayed home to work after April 4, 1995. Alley also warned his children to take his grand children out of the day care center in the Murrah Building.
In a November 1996 pretrial hearing, the US prosecutor, Beth Wilkinson, formally admitted that the Federal family had received the same warning as Judge Alley on March 15, 1995.
I am sure Dana Cooper’s husband and the parents of the deceased children in the day care center wish they had had the same warning as Judge Alley, the US Marshals, the FBI and other members of the Federal Family who got the chance to keep their children out of the day care center.
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Oh, but you just wouldn't get the political mileage off of the bombing without a few dead babies to wave around.
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OKCSubmariner, are you getting my private freepmails?
Thanks for the ping, OKC. I'm gonna bookmark this one for careful reading.
Judge Alley told The Oregonian (04/20/97):
“Let me just say that within the past two or three weeks, information has been disseminated... that indicated concerns on the part of people who ought to know that we ought to be a little bit more careful.” He said that he was told to keep an eye out for “people... wandering about in the courthouse who aren’t supposed to be there, [and] letter bombs. There has been an increased vigilance.”
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They let children into the building after there were formal bomb threats? Unbelievable.
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Two GSA employees were listed as kiled in the bombing. One was listed as an inspector for GSA. I do not know if he was permanently officed in the Murrah Building or whether or not he knew about the bomb threat reports that had been allegedly called in.
It is plausible because Danielle Hunt told me that McVeigh had visited her at the day care center in December 1994 to ask her details about security for the day care center. Hunt’s story of being visited by McVeigh was reported by Arnold Hamilton of the Dallas Morning News on October 8, 1995 in a front page article “Bombing Accounts Are Varied”.
Witnesses also saw McVeigh in the building a day or two before the bombing. What did he say to get past the security guards? They wouldn't let just any "Tom, Dick, and Harry" wander through a federal building that was the regional depository of records.
you just do not understand - the terrorism bill was in big trouble - and the klintons did not think you would mind if a few more women and children were killed to get the bill passed - and the slaughter in waco was really just supposed to be a photo op for the BATF - they could have arrested the leader anytime - he went to town most every day - but the BATF needed some good publicity - and they thought rolling in the tanks and helicopters with guns going would make the american people feel good - and then to burn the place down was even better - they got by with slaughtering a woman and child at ruby ridge so whats wrong with killing a bunch of them - the BATF has to be feared - and they must have things there way or why dress up in black ninja outfits - they are hot to wear in summer time - but they will be willing to suffer the heat for a little good publicity.
The anti-terrorism bill, sponsored by such liberals as Strom Thurmond and Bob Dole, was NOT in big trouble. It was gathering momentum, going through the usual committee hearings and reports, without any significant opposition. Remember, this bill was motivated by the World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of some American facilities overseas. In fact, even after the Murrah Bldg explosion, this terrorism bill did not seem to change its speed in the Congressional processes.
As for someone else's question about how McVeigh (or any stranger) might have gotten past the guards and gotten into the Murrah Bldg; the building was virtually wide open. It had Army & Marine recruiting stations, it had the Social Security office and a credit union. It may not even have had any sort of selectivity or checking at the entrance. But the building was not a regional depository of federal records! Prime office real estate is not used that way and diagrams of the different offices and agencies in the building make it clear that there simply wasn't room for storing significant quantities of inactive files.
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I wonder how you go about getting GSA not to follow its policies and procedures. I wonder who the order would have come from, and how it would have been communicated.
Well it looks like FR's basement dwelling feds are going to have to show up here and start defaming one or their own, Federal Judge Wayne Alley, as a drunkard, liar, or someone who has no credibility because he isn't a structural engineer.
Another good one.
Keep 'em comin'.
Good post. Here's a bump.
Thanks for flagging me. Even though I don't always respond, I always read your articles.
Keep up the good work. BTTT dan
Thank you for all your hard work.
Maybe, just maybe, the truth will finally come out.
Thanks for the heads up!
Another great post!
thanx OKCsub
"The anti-terrorism bill, sponsored by such liberals as Strom Thurmond and Bob Dole, was NOT in big trouble. It was gathering momentum, going through the usual committee hearings and reports, without any significant opposition. Remember, this bill was motivated by the World Trade Center bombing and the bombing of some American facilities overseas. In fact, even after the Murrah Bldg explosion, this terrorism bill did not seem to change its speed in the Congressional processes. "
The anti-terror bill was stalled because the New York Times had reported that the FBI had actually ALLOWED the World Trade Towers to be bombed, and doubts had been raised about the "authenticity" of the overseas bombings as well.
Clinton openly joked with reporters in Air Force One that the bombing of the Murrah Building was the best thing that happened to the anti-terror legislation.
BTTT
28 Posted on 11/06/2001 04:08:38 PST by backhoe
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