Posted on 08/24/2005 3:54:04 AM PDT by ovrtaxt
OKC BOMBING FALLOUT
Congressman to FBI:
Turn over documents
Rohrabacher hopes feds won't attempt to delay investigation into attack
By J.D. Cash
© 2005 McCurtain Daily Gazette
 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. |
The McCurtain Daily Gazette has obtained a copy of U.S. Rep. Dan Rohrabacher's tersely worded letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller, asking him to comply with a federal judge's order directing the Oklahoma City FBI office to provide records regarding their investigation at Elohim City and the Mid-west bank robbery gang.
Rohrabacher, R-Calif., recently interviewed convicted killer Terry Nichols and others with information concerning the April 19, 1995, bombing in Oklahoma City.
The congressman has indicated an interest in holding hearings into the FBI's handling of that investigation and evidence of a foreign connection to the crime.
Dated Aug. 19, Rohrabacher implored the agency head, "I ask that you comply with Judge Kimball's order and not make attempts to block his ruling by delay tactics or other judicial challenges. Further attempts by your agency to obstruct this case will only undermine the FBI's credibility in the eyes of the public."
Days ago, U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball in Salt Lake City, Utah, ordered the Oklahoma City FBI office to turn over unredacted copies of all documents currently at issue in a Freedom of Information (FOIA) lawsuit involving additional evidence and the names of additional conspirators in the bombing case.
Also at issue is evidence related to the mysterious death of an inmate at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City four months after the bombing.
According to the judge, the materials would be reviewed in his chambers and then returned to the FBI.
Kenneth Michael Trentadue, was being held at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City in 1995. The Trentadue family has been in a 10-year legal fight with the government, seeking answers to how their loved-one died while in a suicide proof cell in solitary confinement awaiting a minor parole violation hearing.
Photographs of the body of Kenneth Trentadue indicate he was badly beaten and possibly murdered.
Trentadue's older brother Jesse is a civil lawyer in Salt Lake City and has located evidence that suggests his brother was beaten and tortured by federal agents who mistakenly suspected the inmate was a member of the Midwest bank robbery gang and also connected to McVeigh and the OKC bombing conspiracy.
In his order dated Aug. 16, Kimball directed the parties to appear before him on Oct. 12 to present additional arguments on whether the FBI is entitled to continue withholding evidence it may have of a failed sting operation at Elohim City involving the FBI and informants working for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
Responding late last week as to whether the FBI would comply the court's order, a spokesman for the agency in Oklahoma City refused comment on the suit. However, Special Agent Gary Johnson divulged that the FBI had an ongoing investigation into the OKC bombing.
If accurate, this renewed investigation might allow the FBI to blunt the judge's order.
However, some believe this could be a legal tactic by the FBI to continue to withhold evidence in the bombing case and the death of Kenneth Trentadue.
"I'm outraged the FBI is contemplating such a tactic," attorney Jesse Trentadue said after learning of Johnson's statements. "They're aren't going to do any honest investigation of this. They'll try to stonewall this federal judge. I want them to comply with this order and so does Rohrabacher."
Trentadue's litigation thus far has uncovered links between McVeigh and several subjects that frequented Elohim City, a paramilitary training camp in eastern Oklahoma.
For a decade since the bombing, senior FBI agents and lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice have argued that they never had any evidence that persons at Elohim City could be involved with McVeigh or the Oklahoma bombing.
But several weeks ago, a court order from Kimball forced the release of approximately 100 pages of documents by the Oklahoma City FBI office and some do indeed appear to implicate others in the bombing. The FBI, however, blacked out almost every name in those documents, along with whole sentences of other information regarding an undercover operation the FBI and others were involved with.
In the documents, the FBI notes the agency is monitoring McVeigh and Elohim City with the help of the SPLC – a tax-exempt civil rights group that was co-founded by Alabama attorney Morris Dees.
Dees confirmed participation in a covert operation at Elohim City, but refused to elaborate during an interview with this newspaper almost two years ago.
Noting the long struggle the Trentadue family has endured, Rohrabacher chided Mueller.
"It has been a decade since Kenneth Trentadue died in his BOP cell in the most troublesome and suspicious circumstances. His mother and family members deserve to have their questions answered by those whose custody he was remanded and who were responsible for his well-being. Moreover, the public deserves to know what happened to Mr. Trentadue while in the custody of their government," the congressman wrote.
Previous stories:
FBI must turn over investigation docs
Ex-Green Beret involved in attack?
FBI has secret docs it's reluctant to give up
Withheld evidence to sink case against Nichols?
Declassified FBI memo reveals twists in probe
Reporter's Oklahoma City coverage vindicated
Was FBI early arrival in Oklahoma City?
Another suicide or another cover-up?
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The congressman has indicated an interest in holding hearings into the FBI's handling of that investigation and evidence of a foreign connection to the crime.
BTTT
In the documents, the FBI notes the agency is monitoring McVeigh and Elohim City with the help of the SPLC – a tax-exempt civil rights group that was co-founded by Alabama attorney Morris Dees.
Anything Morris Dees is involved in is dirty dirty dirty. He's scum of the lowest type. The reaction that OKC was a result of 'white talk radio listeners' or whatever Clinton said, sounds like it originated with the SPLC. I hope this all comes out even more now. Dees is an extremely evil man.
You can bet that if any of this shows the FBI in a bad light they well do anything to with hold the information.
"On-going investigation" was Reno's favorite method of not answering questions.
One can only hope that this judge isn't like the judge who gave that citizen's farm to illegal aliens. That was the work of Morris Dees and the SPLC.
i have never seen a photograph of the bomb crater created by the truck bomb.....................or had an explaination of the bomb squad radio transmissions from inside the building finding 4 more bombs attached to the building steel.....the only way the bombs could have been atached to building steel is if it was an inside job........
If a poll were taken and the question asked: Do you believe the FBI is competent in fighting crime? in combatting terrorism? I think the American people would be aghast with the result.
LOL! You're right -- I had forgotten that, and it was practically her tagline!
The problem is whether the question is one of "competence" or of goals.
Then there's that sly legal maneuver, "Sorry, I don't recall." Fools me every time!
The FBI teamed up with Whitey Bulger and his Boston mob where in exchange for money, agents turned over names of informants who were later murdered by the mob. There's a former FBI agent John Connelly who is in jail for bribery is awaiting a murder trail for his role in the mob murdering Roger Wheeler, a legitimate Oklahoma businessman. I'm from the Boston are and from what I can see, the FBI is structurally deficient and have implemented no corrective actions in response to the Boston corruption. In light of the J. Edgar Hoover legacy, we'd be better off dismantling the FBI and starting over again.
There are missing eyewitness statements from the investigation immediately after the bombing. Danny Defenbaugh, FBI guy in Dallas, is the key individual.
TWA 800 investigation was handled similarly. IMO, the Clinton Admin couldn't afford a foreign terrorist attack- it would have forced him into the war that 911 started. He didn't want to deal with it, and OKC was easier to blame on racist rednecks.
another witness who has become "lost"....there was a man walking between the building and the truck bomb when it supposedly went off........he was found alive, across the street ( he was blown clear across the street and went through a plate glass window ) now, if the truck blew up, if he was found in 1 piece, wouldn't the basic law of physics show that he would be INSIDE of the blown up building? and, where has this guy gone?
Didn't Clinton once say the OKC bombing got him reelected?
BTTT
Dees and Clinton… two peas from the same pod.
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