QUESTION: Jayna, why is the current Justice Department not following up on your information?
QUESTION: Jayna, why is the current Justice Department not following up on your information?
Let's examine the history of the Justice Department toward my investigation first.
FBI RESPONSE
On the federal level, the Department of Justice flatly rebuffed my attempts to surrender the evidence. My encounters with the FBI began in the spring and summer of 1995.
KFOR management and I initially discussed our findings with federal agents as we discovered new evidence of Middle Eastern participation. But their zest for our information evaporated when the third terrorist, John Doe 2, inexplicably vanished from the Bureau’s radar screen.
In the fall of 1997, upon the advice of my lawyer, I set an appointment with an FBI agent to surrender all twenty-two witness statements and hundreds of pages of supporting information which implicated Middle Eastern suspects in the bombing plot.
When I arrived at the Oklahoma City field office, accompanied by a notary public, I requested the FBI sign a receipt acknowledging the Bureau took possession of the evidence. That is when the FBI blatantly refused to take receipt of the investigative file.
When I demanded an explanation for such absurdity, one of the lead prosecutors for Terry Nichols’ federal trial told my attorney that the DOJ did not want any more “documents for discovery” to turn over to the defense teams.
When my attorney Tim McCoy requested a written statement confirming their conversation, the prosecutor refused to give him his personal fax number unless he promised to delete all references to the “Oklahoma City bombing” and my attempts to turn over “witness statements.”
The resulting statement was simply ludicrous.
It read, “The Department of Justice has not made any investigative demands for any knowledge Jayna Davis may or may not have.”
I was dumbfounded. The federal government’s capital investment in resources and manpower to track down the killers was historically unparalleled.
But the FBI slammed the door on a reporter from the mainstream media who attempted to share credible evidence which needed to be seriously examined.
In 1999, I returned to FBI headquarters in Oklahoma City.
Dan Vogel, a courageous FBI agent, agreed to take custody of the twenty-two witness affidavits.
Despite Agent Vogel’s obvious concern that the Bureau speak to the witnesses, there was no legitimate attempt to prove or disprove the evidence.
The FBI did not contact any of the witnesses and failed to interview Hussain Alhussaini.
Terry Nichols Preliminary hearings
Two years later, in October 2001, Agent Vogel was subpoenaed to testify in Terry Nichols’ preliminary hearing in the Oklahoma state bombing trial.
Nichols’ lawyers told the judge that Agent Vogel confirmed he received twenty-two affidavits from reporter Jayna Davis, but after he turned them over to the FBI legal department in Oklahoma City, the sworn statements disappeared.
Government prosecutors barred the agent from taking the stand so he was denied the opportunity to personally deliver his testimony.
In March of 2001, Terry Nichols’ defense lawyers subpoenaed me to testify in a pretrial hearing regarding the actions of the FBI in response to this investigation.
By virtue of being called as a witness, I was able to confirm the FBI statements of several of my witnesses were never recorded, contained inaccurate or patently false information, or were withheld from the defense teams. Three of my attorneys, my husband notary Pam Nance, and one of my witnesses, Rachel Sealy, took the stand to corroborate my testimony.
Missing Evidence
In the summer of 2001, the FBI discovered it had inadvertently withheld 4400 discovery documents from the defense teams.
The bureaucratic snafu postponed the execution of Timothy McVeigh
The Office of Inspector General investigated and
When the evidence was finally remitted to the defendant’s lawyers – the affidavits that I remitted to Agent Dan Vogel in 1999 were still missing.
That said, here's my educated guess as to why the current DOJ is not looking into the evidence outlined in The Third Terrorist: The Clinton DOJ blantantly refused to investigate evidence which would have mitigated the roles of both McVeigh and Nichols - that refusal might have constituted a felonious act of obstructing justice. To revisit such an issue now would mean a criminal investigation and that is a political hot potato no one wants to handle, or so I've been told by sources inside the Beltway.
QUESTION: Jayna, why is the current Justice Department not following up on your information?
Let's examine the history of the Justice Department toward my investigation first.
FBI RESPONSE
On the federal level, the Department of Justice flatly rebuffed my attempts to surrender the evidence. My encounters with the FBI began in the spring and summer of 1995.
KFOR management and I initially discussed our findings with federal agents as we discovered new evidence of Middle Eastern participation. But their zest for our information evaporated when the third terrorist, John Doe 2, inexplicably vanished from the Bureau’s radar screen.
In the fall of 1997, upon the advice of my lawyer, I set an appointment with an FBI agent to surrender all twenty-two witness statements and hundreds of pages of supporting information which implicated Middle Eastern suspects in the bombing plot.
When I arrived at the Oklahoma City field office, accompanied by a notary public, I requested the FBI sign a receipt acknowledging the Bureau took possession of the evidence. That is when the FBI blatantly refused to take receipt of the investigative file.
When I demanded an explanation for such absurdity, one of the lead prosecutors for Terry Nichols’ federal trial told my attorney that the DOJ did not want any more “documents for discovery” to turn over to the defense teams.
When my attorney Tim McCoy requested a written statement confirming their conversation, the prosecutor refused to give him his personal fax number unless he promised to delete all references to the “Oklahoma City bombing” and my attempts to turn over “witness statements.”
The resulting statement was simply ludicrous.
It read, “The Department of Justice has not made any investigative demands for any knowledge Jayna Davis may or may not have.”
I was dumbfounded. The federal government’s capital investment in resources and manpower to track down the killers was historically unparalleled.
But the FBI slammed the door on a reporter from the mainstream media who attempted to share credible evidence which needed to be seriously examined.
In 1999, I returned to FBI headquarters in Oklahoma City.
Dan Vogel, a courageous FBI agent, agreed to take custody of the twenty-two witness affidavits.
Despite Agent Vogel’s obvious concern that the Bureau speak to the witnesses, there was no legitimate attempt to prove or disprove the evidence.
The FBI did not contact any of the witnesses and failed to interview Hussain Alhussaini.
Terry Nichols Preliminary hearings
Two years later, in October 2001, Agent Vogel was subpoenaed to testify in Terry Nichols’ preliminary hearing in the Oklahoma state bombing trial.
Nichols’ lawyers told the judge that Agent Vogel confirmed he received twenty-two affidavits from reporter Jayna Davis, but after he turned them over to the FBI legal department in Oklahoma City, the sworn statements disappeared.
Government prosecutors barred the agent from taking the stand so he was denied the opportunity to personally deliver his testimony.
In March of 2001, Terry Nichols’ defense lawyers subpoenaed me to testify in a pretrial hearing regarding the actions of the FBI in response to this investigation.
By virtue of being called as a witness, I was able to confirm the FBI statements of several of my witnesses were never recorded, contained inaccurate or patently false information, or were withheld from the defense teams. Three of my attorneys, my husband notary Pam Nance, and one of my witnesses, Rachel Sealy, took the stand to corroborate my testimony.
Missing Evidence
In the summer of 2001, the FBI discovered it had inadvertently withheld 4400 discovery documents from the defense teams.
The bureaucratic snafu postponed the execution of Timothy McVeigh
The Office of Inspector General investigated and
When the evidence was finally remitted to the defendant’s lawyers – the affidavits that I remitted to Agent Dan Vogel in 1999 were still missing.
That said, here's my educated guess as to why the current DOJ is not looking into the evidence outlined in The Third Terrorist: The Clinton DOJ blantantly refused to investigate evidence which would have mitigated the roles of both McVeigh and Nichols - that refusal might have constituted a felonious act of obstructing justice. To revisit such an issue now would mean a criminal investigation and that is a political hot potato no one wants to handle, or so I've been told by sources inside the Beltway.