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FBI told to search for McVeigh files
Papers could reveal what was known about bomber before 1995
Friday, March 31, 2006/ Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY – A federal judge on Thursday ordered the FBI to redouble a search for investigative files that could reveal what agents knew about Timothy McVeigh before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
But U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball said the bureau could black out some information about informants.
Mr. McVeigh was executed in 2001 for the bombing that gutted a federal office building and killed 168 people.
The ruling Thursday came in a lawsuit filed by Salt Lake City insurance lawyer Jesse Trentadue, who is trying to prove that his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, a bank robber who died while in federal custody a few months after the bombing, was actually killed after being mistaken for a McVeigh associate during the frantic search for conspirators. He said his brother was killed by federal agents during an interrogation.
Judge Kimball had ruled earlier that the FBI should turn over certain documents sought by Mr. Trentadue. He said Thursday that he found it troubling that the FBI's efforts to locate those documents have not turned up more memos, including ones the FBI's own files suggested existed at one time.
The FBI is supposed to turn over any new documents it finds to Mr. Trentadue by June 2.
In his original 23-page decision, released Wednesday, Judge Kimball suggested that Mr. McVeigh was helped by paramilitary militias in the bombing and that the government had an informant in the bombing conspiracy.
The decision contained a sentence that called those two claims made by Mr. Trentadue a "fact," but, after being asked if he was endorsing the conspiracy theories, the judge issued a new decision late Thursday, rewriting that sentence to clearly attribute both claims to Mr. Trentadue.
In his investigation, Mr. Trentadue has contended that the FBI was tipped to Mr. McVeigh's plans but failed to stop the Oklahoma City bombing.
"My assumption is the FBI will comply with the order," said Carlie Christensen, an assistant U.S. attorney who represented the FBI in court hearings here. FBI officials declined to comment.
I'll take 'What is yet another article I would have never read were it not for FreeRepublic?" for $2,000 Alex.
Jayna Davis was also taken off the story when KFOR was purchased by the NY Times. What a bleepin' coincidence!