Posted on 11/14/2002 12:27:33 AM PST by TexKat
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee has halted an inquiry into allegations of a wider conspiracy in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and asked the Justice Department to investigate a policeman who allegedly provided false information to the panel.
J.W. Reser, the policeman, told the House Government Reform Committee staff that he viewed a videotape of a Middle Eastern man leaving the truck used to bomb the building. He also claimed that he worked as a contract employee for the government, including Army and Navy intelligence.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the committee, wrote Attorney General John Ashcroft that those statements were false, as were other statements Reser made about his background.
``I write to bring these false statements to the attention of the Department of Justice for investigation and, if warranted, prosecution,'' Burton wrote Ashcroft recently. Army and Navy intelligence officials wrote the committee that they had no evidence Reser worked for the military.
The committee provided The Associated Press with the lawmaker's criminal referral to the Justice Department and other documents, including a sworn statement that Reser provided to the committee.
Reser is a one-time Oklahoma City police officer who left the force more than a decade before the April 19, 1995, bombing, and now works as a Tulsa International Airport policeman.
He did not return a telephone message left with the Tulsa airport police, who confirmed he worked there. Committee officials said Reser has not responded to recent attempts to contact him. Reser's home number is unlisted.
While the bombing took place seven years ago, committee officials said Reser and others had contacted the panel this year seeking a fresh look at any possible conspiracy.
Reser exaggerated his length of service with the Oklahoma City police department, falsely said he served with a special projects unit on the force and described government connections that federal officials said did not exist, Burton contended.
``Mr. Reser's statements have had the potential to cause serious pain and anxiety for the families and victims of the Oklahoma City bombing,'' which killed 168 people, Burton wrote.
Timothy McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001, for planting the bomb in a truck outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. The only other person charged, Terry Nichols, is serving a life sentence following federal convictions for conspiracy and involuntary manslaughter in the deaths of eight U.S. law enforcement officers.
Nichols also is charged in Oklahoma with 160 counts of first-degree murder.
In a sworn statement to the Government Reform Committee, Reser said he saw a videotape while attending a meeting in Washington with military and civilian intelligence officials as a government contract employee.
He said the two-minute tape ``captured the arrival of the explosives-laden Ryder truck as it parked on the north side of the federal complex shortly before 9 a.m. on April 19. Moments later, I observed an individual descend from the passenger side of the truck. He appeared to be of Middle Eastern extraction with dark hair, olive complexion and a ball cap,'' Reser said.
Rear Adm. R.B. Porterfield, director of naval intelligence, wrote Burton that a Navy search found ``no records of any contract employment of Mr. Reser'' by the service and ``no records of any video or still photographic surveillance cameras in or around the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City ... on April 19, 1995.''
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An entire congressional investigation hinges on a disappearing witness.
Clinton said Rush Limbaugh did the OKCBomb caper.
Richard Jewell masterminded the Olympic Park bombing.
TWA Flight 800 was caused by someone smoking a cigarette exploding the methane in the head.
James Zogby's CAIR had Hollywood remove Islamists as the nuclear terrorists in the film version of Tom Clancy's Sum of All Fears
Leaving us with John Mohammad and his faithful punk Malvo, two angry white guys in a white pickup with an NRA bumper sticker.
When Jim Garrison tried Clay Shaw in New Orleans, his case was damaged by a witness he belatedly added to his list, Charles Spiesel.
The defense cross-examination evoked Spiesel relating how he fingerprinted his daughter each time she returned from college.
A witness pushed on Garrison blew up on the stand, damaging his credibility.
An old play from an old playbook.
On March 8, 1996, U.S. Federal Judge George Howard, Jr., ruled that Terry Reed could not introduce any evidence related to his "participation in missions sponsored by the FBI, the CIA or any other agency of the United States government. . . as well as any operations conducted in Southwest Arkansas regarding the training of Nicaraguan nationals. . . any reference to President or Governor Bill Clinton and/or Hillary Clinton and the Mena or Nella airports. Further, any reference to Dan Lasater. . . any reference to a business relationship of Barry Seal and Dan Lasater. . . and the Arkansas Development and Finance Authority."--The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: the unreported stories, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Regnery, 1997, pp 353-354.
Reser serves as a poison pill to close an investigation headed in an embarrassing direction.
Nichols met with Islamist terrorists in the Philippines.
McVeigh reconnoitered targets with Andreas Carl Strassmeier, German panzer lieutenant trained in intelligence, son of a German minister--who left the country.
McVeigh and Nichols were tutored in ANFO by FBI informant Dennis Mahon--at large.
ATF informant Carol Howe sounded the alarm, but the FBI would not raid Elohim City.
Howe was smeared on phonied up charges.
Play ball or take a fall--the Rules According to Fed.
From the Preliminary hearing.
A. The film that I viewed was before the explosion. I did not view the entire film. The pictures that were shown to me were before the explosion.
I think he wanted some justice and was stupid enough to believe Burton is honest.
They can't exactly Arkanacide Reser at the moment, but I guarantee you that he will die well before his time--most likely after they commit him to some institution or send him to prison on some trumped up charge.
The only other explanation is that he is a plant designed to discredit the entire investigation--in which case he'll still die an early death.
Army and Navy intelligence officials wrote the committee that they had no evidence Reser worked for the military.the legacy of Klintonspeak is becoming commonly accepted now.
reser may never have worked for the military.
reser, however, may have worked for a company that worked for the military.
As you mull all this over, keep in mind this list of murder victims who died in the bombing that day:
Source: http://www.devvy.com/graham_20010526.html#meat
DOD
Harley Cottingham, 46, special agent, Department of Defense
Peter DeMaster, 44, special agent, Department of Defense
Norma Jean Johnson, 62, executive secretary, Department of Defense, Defense and Investigative Service
Rogert Glen Westberry, 57, Daytona Beach, Fla., special agent in charge, Department of Defense, Defense and Investigative Service
We've no idea who replaced them or what they were working on...
Howe was smeared on phonied up charges.
Play ball or take a fall--the Rules According to Fed.
another excellent analogy!
SOP: dirty um up and diminish their credibility.
list:
terry reid
james sanders
carol howe
billy dale
feel free to add to the list.
Dr. Howard Chumley. Refused to put bandages on phony injuries of ATF agents at the OKC bombing scene, and died in a plane crash before he could testify against them.
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