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The conviction of American terrorists, Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, symbolizes the FBI's crown jewel of criminal prosecutions. So why do questions linger? Does the official account of what transpired on April 19, 1995 reveal all that certain federal investigators know? In the wake of the 1995 bombing, national polls showed 80 percent of Americans believed additional conspirators evaded capture. Today, as the 16th anniversary approaches, the prospect of shadowy terrorists walking free still pervades the country's psyche. This time, however, the FBI itself is fueling the flames of public distrust. Last week the vault of top-secret bombing evidence cracked...

The founder of an organization that has influenced the Obama Administration's media and information policy, is both reporting on and leading the labor union/socialist occupation occupation of Madison Wisconsin. John Nichols John Nichols founded Free Press, "a national, nonpartisan organization" with Marxist Robert McChesney in 2002 to "engage citizens in media policy debates and create a more democratic and diverse media system". Free Press has contributed former affiliates to Obama Administration positions, including pro Hugo Chavez "Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd and State Department policy adviser Ben Scott. John Nichols from The Nation and the Madison Capital Times has been a...

While liberal news outlets such as MSNBC were cynically exploiting the April 19 anniversary of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by attempting to tie the terrorist attack to the anti-government sentiments of the modern-day Tea Party movement, investigative reporter Jayna Davis was setting the record straight in an exclusive interview on the AIM radio show, Take AIM. The Oklahoma City bombing was an Arab/Muslim terrorist attack on the United States, she says. Davis, author of a blockbuster book on the attack, The Third Terrorist, has examined and presented the evidence showing that Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was in fact...

"Take AIM" radio show scheduled for Thursday, April 22, at 11:00 am Eastern: Award-winning investigative TV reporter Jayna Davis, who covered the Oklahoma City bombing for NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, discusses the 15th anniversary of OKC and her book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle East Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing." Representative Lamar Smith, a Republican serving the 21st District of Texas, joins Take AIM to discuss media bias and the Media Fairness Caucus he chairs. Accuracy in Media analyst Roger Aronoff hosts.

Two Ignatius Press authors have an engaging conversation in the pages of The Catholic Herald about that question; the conversation has been going on with an exchange of letters going back to last summer (see links below).  The two authors are Moyra Doorly, who wrote No Place For God: The Denial of the Transcendent in Modern Church Architecture (Ignatius Press, 2007), and prolific author and theologian Aidan Nichols, O.P., whose books include Looking at the Liturgy (1996), Hopkins: Theologian's Poet (2006), Lovely Like Jerusalem: The Fulfillment of the Old Testament in Christ and the Church (2007), and Rome and the...

Archbishop Vincent Nichols is reviving and extending the practice of Forty Hours’ Devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in Westminster diocese: he plans to set up a rota whereby adoration moves from parish to parish, as it did in the old days.He’s also placing a renewed emphasis on the saying of the Rosary. He’s moved the celebration of Mass (albeit westward-facing) in his cathedral back to the High Altar. And there are reports that some gorgeous Roman vestments have been brought out of mothballs.Who would have thought it? Not me, 15 years ago, when the then Mgr Nichols was heavily into...

Convicted Killer Terry Nichols Says Low-Fiber Prison Diet Has Impacted Bowels The Smoking Gun Web site reports on a lawsuit against his jailers filed by Terry Nichols, the domestic terrorist who teamed up with Timothy McVeigh to murder 168 people in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. According to the court documents on the Smoking Gun Web site, Terry Nichols, 54, says the low-fiber prison diet has given him "chronic constipation, bleeding, hemorrhoids." This week, a federal judge rejected Nichols's bid for a preliminary injunction against the Bureau of Prisons. A lawsuit filed last month by Nichols is pending. To support...

Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is complaining about his diet again — this time in a handwritten federal lawsuit seeking more than $2 million. He claims the food he gets in federal prison in Colorado violates his religious rights. He also claims the "indifference” of prison officials to his medical needs is cruel and unusual punishment. Nichols complained that he "is compelled to consume daily those unhealthy dead and refined foods that are abhorrent to plaintiff’s sincerely held religious beliefs causing him physical, mental and spiritual torment, and to sin against God.” He wrote that he sincerely believes...

The FBI is appealing an order that allows a Utah attorney to conduct taped depositions of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and a death-row inmate. Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue believes that the two inmates have valuable information about his brother's death in a federal prison - and about the FBI's alleged withholding of many of the relevant documents requested in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit. Authorities say the August 1995 death of Kenneth Trentadue in a cell at an Oklahoma City federal prison was a suicide, but the inmate's family believes he was mistaken for...

A few short weeks ago, W&M quietly launched a “bias reporting system” and invited students to report anonymously their fellow students for remarks that offend them... Nichol to Supervise Secret Investigations of Students and Control of Anonymously Lodged Hearsay and Libelous Charges... In this new tattletale system, President Nichol is kept up to date on all secret investigations of offending remarks and controls the dissemination of any private data collected against any student or faculty member...

"Two dozen people cheated casinos in several U.S. states and Canada out of at least $3.3 million over five years by using technology and bribes to rig card games, federal prosecutors alleged in unsealed indictments." (snip) "The three indictments unsealed name 24 defendants, including the son of Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, in an alleged racketeering enterprise dating from March 2002. The so-called Tran Organization allegedly was based in California."

The Brian Nichols case will stand still for almost six more months. That's six months the victims' families also will stand still, waiting for justice and for answers. March 11, 2005, was most likely the worst day of their lives — three women lost husbands, a daughter lost a mother and scores of others saw their lives changed forever. Brian Nichols (shown in court in February) is described by parents as remorseful, by jail officials as dangerous. But the six-month reprieve also gives Brian Nichols' parents time for hope — hope that their son will be allowed to plead guilty...

Legal ethics rules in all fifty states absolutely prevent lawyers from assisting their clients in the commission of criminal acts. Confidentiality and lawyer-client privilege rules have, everywhere that we know of, "crime-fraud" exceptions -- communications sent by the client to the lawyer to facilitate the commission of future crimes are NOT confidential. Treason, in every state in the land, is severely punishable, even by death. Break all these rules, and what do you get? About thirty years seems right. What you don't get is the paltry 28-month sentence for traitor-lawyer Lynne Stewart, who admits passing messages from a convicted terrorist...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - FBI evidence that helped convict Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols went on display Friday at the Oklahoma City bombing memorial, even as a congressman and others continue to raise questions about the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people. The display includes items ranging from mangled pieces of the truck used in the explosion to the automatic Glock handgun taken from McVeigh when he was arrested by a state trooper 90 miles from the bombing site. ``Hopefully, the exhibit will answer some of the questions the public has regarding the investigation,'' said Nancy Coggins, spokeswoman for the...

'Rita Cosby Live & Direct' for April 18 (Much snippage) Also, 11 years after the Oklahoma City bombing, stunning new claims that others may have played a role in the attack.  I sat down for an exclusive interview with Josh Nichols, the son of conspirator Terry Nichols, and he broke some news.  He says that his father will reveal who may have helped.  (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)COSBY:  Do you believe that there are several others involved beyond your father and Timothy McVeigh?  JOSH NICHOLS, SON OF OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING CONSPIRATOR:  Yes, and there was more people involved.COSBY:  More than just one?NICHOLS: ...

The McCurtain Daily Gazette today reports several former powerful and high ranking Justice department officials confirm there was a coverup of the investigation to the Oklahoma City bombing. Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, a published report says several former high ranking Department of Justice officials who want to remain anonymous claim there was a coverup of the attack which killed 168 persons. The story is carried by the McCurtain Daily Gazette in Idabel whose reporter J-D Cash has spent a decade investigating the bombing and its ties to Elohim City, a religious and white separatist compound in eastern...

Nichols' comments tie McVeigh firmly to Elohim City By J.D. Cash During a jailhouse interview Monday in Colorado with U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., Terry L. Nichols admitted traveling to the outskirts of Elohim City with Timothy McVeigh in October of 1993. The admission is the first time Nichols has confirmed McVeigh's ties to the terrorist training camp and should finally lay to rest years of speculation as to McVeigh's longstanding connections there. After the April 19, 1995, bomb-ing of the Oklahoma City federal building, this newspaper reported a phone call made from McVeigh's motel room in Kingman, Az., to...

Terry Nichols reveals involvement in blast By Nolan Clay The Oklahoman Copyright 2005, The Oklahoman Terry Nichols has admitted to the FBI and his family for the first time that he was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing. The convict, 50, started speaking to the FBI about his role in April and told his mother, sister and first ex-wife in June at the federal prison in Florence, Colo. "I didn't like it. Oh, God, I said, 'No way,'" his mother, Joyce Wilt, said. "I told him, 'You tell me the truth. I want the truth and I don't want anything...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols has told the FBI and his family that he was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, according to a published report. Nichols, serving life prison sentences on federal and state convictions for the bombing that killed 168 people, started speaking to the FBI about his role in April at a federal prison in Florence, Colo., The Oklahoman reported in a copyright story in Sunday's editions. Nichols, 50, made similar disclosures to his mother, sister and first ex-wife last month. "I didn't like it. Oh, God, I said,...

After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. – who has publicly vowed to address unanswered questions about the bombing – went with a staff aid to the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo., where Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences, according to the Northeast Intelligence Network, a private, counter-terrorist research and investigation group. In his quizzing of Nichols, the congressman relied heavily on the investigative work of journalist Jayna Davis and her book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle...