http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/oklahomacity/ en-us Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:41:55 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352166/posts Check this out: Despite the millions of dollars of misused funds, it seems ACORN couldn't pay the rent at a couple of offices in Oklahoma City. When they vacated, they left some computers behind. As a testament to the stupidity of criminals worldwide, the passwords to the computers where written on pieces of paper left inside a desk. The Patriot Room http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2352166/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:41:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352157/posts The FBI on Monday denied editing security camera videos from the Oklahoma City bombing case. The FBI this summer released more than 20 recordings to Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue who is doing his own inquiry into the attack. The soundless recordings came from security cameras in operation in downtown Oklahoma City on the days before and on the morning of the bombing. None show the actual explosion of a truck bomb outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m. April 19, 1995. Trentadue claims some cameras go blank about the same time before 9:02 a.m. He said Sunday... newsok http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2352157/posts#comment Thu, 1 Oct 2009 02:27:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351936/posts By Andrew W. Griffin Oklahoma Watchdog Posted: September 30, 2009 andrew@oklahomawatchdog.org OKLAHOMA CITY – Rep. Mike Reynolds, R-Oklahoma City, said Wednesday he combed through documents from an abandoned local ACORN office because of reports of impropriety at other organization chapters. Oklahoma City-based news and investigative website Red Dirt Report discovered documents in an abandoned local office of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now in south Oklahoma City’s “Little Mexico” neighborhood. Investigators found computers, hard drives, documents, registration forms, I-9 employment information and boxes with return addresses to ACORN’s New Orleans home office, as well as a regional IRS... Oklahoma Watchdog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351936/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 21:51:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351605/posts A Republican state legislator released documents Tuesday which he says show the community-organizing group ACORN focused on helping Democrats in three legislative races in the November 2008 election and had developed a game plan to "take power” in Oklahoma within five years. "They say they’re not political, but one of the subdirectories was called political action plans,” Reynolds said. "It was their political plans to take over key targeted races in Oklahoma City to show how powerful they are.” One of the key legislative races mentioned in the documents was the Senate District 43 race involving Reynolds’ brother. State Sen.... The Daily Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2351605/posts#comment Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:28:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350826/posts A document obtained from an abandoned Oklahoma City ACORN office computer purports to put Senator Andrew Rice, the new leader of Senate Democrats, in the middle of a conspiracy between ACORN and the Oklahoma Democratic Party to target legislative Republicans and elect Democrats. The McCarville Report Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2350826/posts#comment Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:15:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349960/posts OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday. "The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney.... hosted. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2349960/posts#comment Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:17:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279906/posts Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents arrested two suspected white supremacists Thursday after a raid at a northern Illinois home, during which agents seized assault weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and purportedly racist materials. Twin brothers Dennis and Daniel Mahon, 59, were taken into custody by agents on firearms violations after arrest and search warrants were served at the Davis Junction, Ill., home. Dennis Mahon was frequently mentioned as a possible suspect but never charged in connection with the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City that killed 168... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279906/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:11:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153644/posts Video: Bomb Squad Scours Metro Home For Explosives House Searched After Man Found Near Mall With Bomb Steven Jordal, 24, Arrested On Suspicion Of Making Explosive Device With Intent To Sell POSTED: 6:53 pm CST December 23, 2008 UPDATED: 7:13 pm CST December 23, 2008 OKLAHOMA CITY -- A robot has been combing a metro home for explosives since Tuesday morning after finding a man near Penn Square Mall with a bomb on Monday, police said. VIDEO: Bomb Squad Scours Metro Home For Explosives Officers said an anonymous tip led police to Steven Andrew Jordal, 24, who has been accused... KOCO.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2153644/posts#comment Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:59:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119298/posts OKLAHOMA CITY – On the second floor of an old building in South Oklahoma City “Little Mexico” neighborhood, there is a room that until recently, housed a branch of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), a low-income advocacy organization known for left-wing activism, rabble-rousing and – shockingly – voter registration fraud. Left hurriedly and in a shambles, the small office, coated in a layer of plaster dust, still housed computers, documents, registration forms, I-9 employment info and boxes with an IRS return address and others with a return address for an ACORN office in New Orleans. The person... Red Dirt Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119298/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:33:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091742/posts A judge has reaffirmed an order that a Utah attorney can conduct taped depositions of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and a federal death-row inmate. Attorney Jesse Trentadue says the two prisoners have information about the 1995 death of his brother, whom he believes was murdered in a federal prison after guards mistook him for an accomplice in the bombing. Kenneth Trentadue was found hanged in his cell in August 1995 at a federal prison in Oklahoma City, where he was being held on an alleged parole violation. Although the death was ruled a suicide, Trentadue family members think... Salt Lake Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091742/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:18:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957689/posts Jose Padilla is sentenced to 17 years By CURT ANDERSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer 5 minutes ago Jose Padilla, once accused of plotting with al-Qaida to blow up a radioactive "dirty bomb," was sentenced Tuesday to 17 years and four months on terrorism conspiracy charges that don't mention those initial allegations. The sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke marks another step in the extraordinary personal and legal odyssey for the 37-year-old Muslim convert, a U.S. citizen who was held for 3 1/2 years as an enemy combatant after his 2002 arrest amid the "dirty bomb" allegations. He had... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1957689/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:09:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941529/posts Two Oklahoma City employees have sued the city over a memo from City Manager Jim Couch that the pair describes as "Anti-Christmas." The fuss is about whether to allow city employees to display nativity scenes, crosses, angels, cherubs and other religious items in their offices. Couch’s memo says such religious holiday items shouldn’t be displayed in government offices in order to “maintain neutrality” and avoid promoting one religion over another. Employees Christopher Spencer and Kenneth Buck disagree. They filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing Couch and other city employees of violating their First Amendment rights by asking that religious-themed decor... NEWS OKLAHOMA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941529/posts#comment Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:12:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893451/posts (Day 7) Sunday Sept 9 2007 *Special Note to Colorado Supporters:* Gathering of Eagles Colorado Chapter holds 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM pro-troop rally. At 8:00 AM they will then depart in a caravan of vehicles to join up with the main "Fight for Victory Tour" caravan in Wichita, Kansas. More information available - HERE Bring letters, cards, notes of support & appreciation for our wounded warriors to this event, we will collect them and bring them to our recovering troops at Walter Reed Medical Center in Washington, D.C. at the conclusion of the national caravan. Leave Dallas, TX... MAF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1893451/posts#comment Sun, 9 Sep 2007 13:26:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1859212/posts I always wondered if Timothy McVaigh really was the one who did the whole thing. While talking to some friends about this one mentioned there has been some work done here and some published articles about a possible Muslim connection. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1859212/posts#comment Sun, 1 Jul 2007 17:08:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819849/posts Was OKC Bomber Timothy McVeigh Working for the FBI? By William F. Jasper Created 2007-03-07 18:33 In a 19-page affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Lynn Nichols alleges that the bombing plot was actually under the supervision of top FBI officials. According to a February 21 report in Salt Lake City's Deseret News, the Nichols affidavit charges that Timothy McVeigh, who was executed for his role in the bombing, was actually working under Larry Potts, the controversial FBI official who was forced to resign under a cloud for his... The New American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819849/posts#comment Thu, 19 Apr 2007 06:46:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758192/posts WASHINGTON Dec 24, 2006 (AP)— The FBI failed to fully investigate information suggesting other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, allowing questions to linger more than a decade after the deadly attack, a congressional inquiry concludes. The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but far too many unanswered questions remain. ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758192/posts#comment Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:47:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757335/posts WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Iranian government is partly to blame for a 1996 terrorist attack that killed 19 Americans in Saudi Arabia, a federal judge ruled Friday. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth allows the families of the victims of the Khobar Towers bombing to seek $254 million in compensation from the conservative Islamic regime in Tehran. Though intelligence officials have suspected a link between the Tehran government and the Saudi wing of Hezbollah, which the FBI has accused of carrying out the bombing, Friday's ruling is the first time a branch of the U.S. government has... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757335/posts#comment Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:18:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704214/posts The Note: 9/11/2006 One Nation BY MARK HALPERIN, DAVID CHALIAN, TEDDY DAVIS, MATT STUART, and EMILY O'DONNELL with KARUNA SESHASAI, CATRIN JONES, MONA RAPHAEL, and ERICA ANDERSON — - WASHINGTON, Sep. 11 In this week's New Yorker, David Remnick turns in an excellent and truly must-read behind-the-scenes look at Clinton's post-presidential life and travels. For those interested in all things Clinton, it has Bill Clinton on the record saying things he normally won't say on those terms ("I am sick of Karl Rove's bullshit." and attacking the Washington Post's Sue Schmidt), and talking about presidential politics, including saying John Edwards... ABC News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704214/posts#comment Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:20:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693843/posts 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... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1693843/posts#comment Fri, 1 Sep 2006 15:57:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683554/posts Bush's Anti-Terrorism Record (CBS/AP) SCHENECTADY, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible contender for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 2008, on Monday criticized the Bush administration for failing to do enough to protect the country from terrorists. Clinton's comments came after authorities in the United Kingdom last week said they thwarted a terror plot involving airplanes bound from Britain to the United States. Conspirators allegedly planned to blow up as many as 10 planes flying from Britain to the United States using liquid explosives, which the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's security equipment cannot detect in carry-on luggage. "We've done... WCBSTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1683554/posts#comment Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:08:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671539/posts Mon July 24, 2006 Mr. Monday: To stay in Seattle, Sonics must win Mr. Monday once parked his caboose in the Pacific Northwest. Just south of Canada, the state of Washington is now sitting on the front porch of Oklahoma's collective sports brain. Those coffee-drinking, dot-commers have the Sonics. For now. Mr. Monday figures the team in the green and gold is on its way east in the next year. Mr. Monday knows these people. Here's their M.O. -- The Left Coasters are the bandwagoniest bandwagoners who ever bandwagoned. They'll only pull their attention away from their plate of smoked... The Daily Oklahoman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671539/posts#comment Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:53:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1668304/posts SEATTLE — So this was the five-year plan Howard Schultz really had in mind when he purchased the Seattle Sonics in 2001. The chairman of Starbucks — along with some 60 locals — formed the Basketball Club of Seattle (LLC) to purchase the team from media mogul Barry Ackerley in 2001, promising an NBA title in five years. Tuesday afternoon, Schultz stood before that same assemblage and announced they had sold the Sonics and the WNBA's Storm to a group known as The Professional Basketball Club (LLC), which currently has five investors with more likely to come. The group, led... Fox Sports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1668304/posts#comment Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:45:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661990/posts This is response ad from the Ernest Istook campaign to a negative ad made by the Bob Sullivan campaign. Here is the link again: http://www.istook.com/?sectionid=52&sectiontree=20,52 Here is the Istook campaign website: http://www.istook.com/ Istook for Governor Campaign http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661990/posts#comment Fri, 7 Jul 2006 20:27:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654641/posts WILLIAM Jefferson Blythe III was born on August 19, 1946, in Hope, Ark. After his mother remarried, he took the family surname, Clinton. Clinton was a good student. He enjoyed playing the saxophone and even considered a professional musical career. While in high school, a fortuitous meeting with President John Kennedy led him to choose a life of public service. New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654641/posts#comment Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:23:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1647668/posts JAYNA DAVIS TO GO AFTER ROHRABACHER on Monday morning, we believe in the 7AM hour, Central Time. LISTEN TO THE KLIF STREAM FROM DALLAS California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher has made some news lately regarding reopening an investigation into the OKC bombing. But don't anticipate that Rohrabacher really wants to get to the truth. Those who have followed Jayna's incredible reporting and read her blockbuster book, THE THIRD TERRORIST, know that there has been a coverup of the Iraqi connection to the bombing of the Murrah Building. Jayna has 22 eyewitnesses who make compelling witnesses that Iraqis were involved in... Jayna Davis http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1647668/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jun 2006 04:00:01 GMT