Posted on 11/09/2002 8:08:21 AM PST by TXnMA
Notra Trulock Saturday, Nov. 9, 2002
In 1995, the worst act of terrorism on American soil, prior to the 9/11 disaster, was committed in Oklahoma City. On April 19, terrorists blew up the Murrah Federal Building and killed 168 Americans and wounded scores more. Not long after the bombing, Timothy McVeigh was arrested about 60 miles east of Oklahoma City and a few days later Terry Nichols surrendered to police in Herrington, Kan. With those arrests, the Justice Department shut down any further investigation into who had committed this awful crime.
But as with the Kennedy assassination, many Americans remained deeply skeptical about the government's assurances that McVeigh and Nichols acted alone in this horrible crime. And for good reason, as it seems that the FBI ignored important investigative leads, failed to interview potentially significant witnesses, and destroyed the Murrah building before experts could examine the crime scene.
The involvement of a John Doe Number Two in the bombing has remained a simmering controversy. Skeptics ask why the FBI canceled an all-points-bulletin for a Middle Eastern male subject or subjects fleeing the scene issued in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. Numerous eyewitness accounts have identified Middle Eastern males in the company of McVeigh in the days and weeks before the bombing.
Dr. Frederic Whitehurst's allegations against the FBI crime lab sparked a Justice Department investigation that found the lab had provided "inaccurate pro-prosecution testimony in major cases including Oklahoma City." Retired Air Force General Benton K. Partin, an explosive expert, disputed the FBI's theory that the damage to the Murrah Building was caused by a single truck-bomb. His analyses were later endorsed by numerous physicists, physical chemists and experts in structural mechanics as well as a series of live tests conducted at Eglin Air Force Base. These are just some of the lingering questions about the 1995 bombing.
Beyond covering McVeigh's execution and the FBI foul-ups that delayed it, the mainstream media have devoted little effort to digging into any of these questions. Concerned citizens have had to go to Internet media outlets like World Net Daily and NewsMax or be on the lookout for the occasional investigative report in obscure outlets like the Los Angeles Weekly or the London Evening Standard.
In early September, the Wall Street Journal did one column on its editorial page about possible Iraqi involvement in Oklahoma City and the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, but seemed to lose interest after that.
One columnist who has refused to let the story die is James Patterson, an editorial writer at the Indianapolis Star. Patterson was one of the first to report a potential crack in the wall of silence erected around the Oklahoma City bombing by the government and the elite media.
Twice in recent months, Patterson has reported that Chairman Dan Burton's House Government Reform Committee investigators have uncovered the possible whereabouts of videotapes and photographs of the Murrah Federal Building from the day of the bombing. The Final Report of the Oklahoma Bombing Investigation Committee (OKBIC) noted the existence of such tapes, but the Justice Department has adamantly refused to release them, even in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
Burton believes that the tapes and photographs may be held in the archives of Naval Intelligence at the Washington Navy Yard and he has issued a subpoena to the Secretary of the Navy to obtain them. The tapes are said to contain video of a John Doe Number Two getting out on the passenger side of the Ryder truck just prior to the explosion.
Former FBI Deputy Director Weldon Kennedy told the Philadelphia Inquirer that talk of withheld videotapes is "ludicrous and insulting." Kennedy says that agents nailed down "98 to 99 percent" of McVeigh and Nichols' movements in the months before the bombing and he is absolutely convinced they acted alone.
Cate McCauley, who worked on McVeigh's appeal, goes beyond Kennedy and charges that talk of Middle Eastern men helping McVeigh is "perhaps the worse case of misinformation and pandering" she has come across. The allegations, she says, are easily refutable and those who promote them are "standing on the graves of thousands of people."
A quick, easy way to resolve the controversy over John Doe Number 2 would be to simply release the videotapes and photographs and let the American public judge for itself. Release the tapes and bring this case to closure. The victims of the Oklahoma City bombing deserve nothing less.
Notra Trulock is Associate Editor of the AIM Report.
TXnMA (No Longer!!!)
TXnMA (No Longer!!!)
This is the first I have read about follow-ups to General Partin's report, which was posted on the net and should be familiar to most who have followed this coverup.
General Partin offered to testify at the trial, but the compliant judge who first presided ignored his offer. There's no question that he is a veteran expert witness, and that his report is persuasive to anyone who takes the trouble to read it. It was physically impossible for the fertilizer bomb to bring down the Murrah Building--by several orders of magnitude. There must have been at least three explosive devices strapped to the pillars in the basement.
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There must have been at least three explosive devices strapped to the pillars in the basement.
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Yes, there were many folks who spoke out and wrote in support of Ben Partin's analysis. (I suppose that I am one of those "physical chemists" that were mentioned above.)
Ben and I have communicated many times on this issue, and his analysis is, to me, compelling. You will find statements of many of those experts in support of Partin's analysis in the OKBIC's Final Report on the Bombing of the Afred P.Murrah Federal Building, April 19, 1995.
In that same (500+ page) volume, you will also find my analysis (pp 191 - 256) of the bomb and the building collapse.
The main (nine-story) MFB structure was slab-on grade; there was no basement beneath the main building.
One of my conclusions was that ' IF supplemental high VOD 'cutting charges' (as suggested by Partin, et al) were used, they (three of them) were placed at or near the third floor level, at the junctures of the three main (exterior) columns and the 3' X 5' X 200' "main header/transfer beam" that spanned the width of the building at the third floor level. And, if present, the supplemental charges were detonated several seconds in advance of the truck bomb explosion.
The government must release all (22 at least) of those surveillance videotapes!
TXnMA (No Longer!!!)
The jury is still out whether he has publically spoken on this because he knows it's going to come out anyway or whether he needs to be in on it in the beginning so he can grab on and help suffocate it.
Former FBI Deputy Director Weldon Kennedy told the Philadelphia Inquirer that talk of withheld videotapes is "ludicrous and insulting." Kennedy says that agents nailed down "98 to 99 percent" of McVeigh and Nichols' movements in the months before the bombing and he is absolutely convinced they acted alone.
Cate McCauley, who worked on McVeigh's appeal, goes beyond Kennedy and charges that talk of Middle Eastern men helping McVeigh is "perhaps the worse case of misinformation and pandering" she has come across. The allegations, she says, are easily refutable and those who promote them are "standing on the graves of thousands of people."
Clearly Weldon Kennedy and Cate McCauley are putting themselves on the line to keep it down. This is a problem because there are IMO gov't people who would help the truth to come out but who really don't want to shoot down "colleagues". A certain general protectionism can set in even among those whose hands are not dirty.
As far as "standing on the graves of thousands of people" goes, I'd rather stand on those graves to expose the filth that put those good people in graves to start with. The people who protect the perps are pissing on those graves IMO.
Please note that both Kennedy's and McCauley's statements offer NO facts, NO evidence to counter the need for investigation. They also fail to address the FACTS that have been exposed on this forum and others. Come on, Catey--if the allegations are easily refutable, why didn't you refute them?
They offer only insults, personal opinions without any supporting facts, and emotional intimidation to stall an investigation. If there's nothing there, an investigation couldn't hurt anything or anybody. What are they afraid of?
If the truth of this were known, we wouldn't need a U.N. resolution; we've already been attacked by Iraq.
As long as I live, I will never forget watching this live on my TV and watching the officials, news camera crews and citizens running away from the scene yelling that more bombs were found. It just sticks in your mind!!!
The other thing I can't forget is driving through Perry OK and remembering how lonely that freeway was. To think that the supposed terrorist who just committed the worst act in America up to that time, would let "Barney Fife" take him alone and alive when he had a 9mm Glock on him... is abjectly absurd on it's face.
Remembering how happily conservatives were growing in strength and how desperate Clinton, Clinton & Gore along with liberal government officials (in general) were getting at the open contempt for their arrogant ways in those days... It's just too much to conveniently drop from one's mind... EVER!!!
They stopped a constitutional revolution of, for and by the people, with this. As the church lady used to say... "Isn't that conveeeeeeeenient?"
Thanks for all you've done and all you continue to do.
Two words Elhoim City . You know the one where the FBI CI , the late Reverand Millar, kept a compound for would be plotters and agent provocateurs of nefarious anti-government direct action "
You and I certainly 'see eye-to-eye' on this one! Right on!
and a big
TXnMA (No Longer!!!)
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