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THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION,
The Mysterious Jamie Gorelick Phone Call
By David Hoffman,Sun Sep 14 12:10:57 1997
Time: Sun Sep 14 12:10:57 1997
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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: OKC -- Grand Jury Tampering (fwd)

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>
>THE OBSTRUCTION OF THE OKLAHOMA BOMBING GRAND JURY INVESTIGATION
> The Mysterious Jamie Gorelick Phone Call
>
>By David Hoffman
>
>
>The petition by Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key to impanel a
>grand jury to hear evidence of government involvement in the
>Oklahoma City bombing was originally quashed by District Judge
>Daniel Owens on the premise that it would be "reinventing the
>wheel." The Oklahoma Supreme Court disagreed earlier this year,
>and overturned both Owens' ruling and District Attorney Robert
>Macy's subsequent appeal.
>
>When I first interviewed Bob Macy about the Oklahoma City bombing
>in 1995, he was collecting information on the case by reading
>Morris Dees' Gathering Storm, and The Turner Diaries. This was a
>year and-a-half after the bombing--a bombing that occurred right
>outside his window. He didn't know about John Doe 2. He had no
>idea about the Middle Eastern connection. He had done absolutely
>no investigation.
>
>"I have not seen these things you are talking about right now,"
>Macy told me. "When I see the evidence... I haven't been
>presented with the evidence." Macy subsequently claimed he wanted
>me to work with his so- called "task force" that was
>"investigating" the bombing, then never called me back. It wasn't
>until the county grand jury was finally impaneled in June of this
>year that Macy's Chief Assistant DA, Pat Morgan, sent an
>investigator to meet with me. After turning over [almost] all the
>information I had gathered on the bombing, I never heard another
>word.
>
>Interestingly, just two months before the hearing, Macy claimed
>to this author that he intended to prosecute McVeigh and Nichols
>in a state trial on 161 counts of First Degree Murder. "I don't
>like taking a second seat to the [federal] prosecution," Macy
>stated. "The bombing killed 10 of my friends."
>
>In a May 24, 1995 letter to Senator Orrin Hatch, one of the
>original drafters of the Anti-Terrorism Bill, Macy wrote:
>
> First, immediately following the trial or trials in Federal
> Court, I shall, working in conjunction with the United Sates
> Department of Justice and the federal law-enforcement
> agencies investigating the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah
> Building, prosecute the cowards responsible for murdering
> innocent people in the area surrounding the Federal
> Building.... The State of Oklahoma has an overwhelming,
> compelling interest to seek and obtain the maximum penalty
> allowable by law for the senseless and cowardly killings. Not
> only is it in the interest of the State, it is my sworn duty
> to seek those sanctions, and I intend to fully carry out my
> responsibilities.... Every day of delay represents a victory
> for these cowardly cold- blooded killers and another day of
> defeat and suffering for the victims and all other Americans
> who cry out for justice.
>
>Macy personally impressed upon me his interest in getting at the
>truth: "I'm prepared to do what ever it takes to get to the
>truth," Macy exclaimed. "My sole intent is in learning the
>truth!"
>
>Yet when asked if he intended to conduct an investigation
>independent of the Feds', he said, "Well... I don't want to be a
>party to anything that will interfere with the Feds' prosecution.
>I don't want to open up a new can of worms."
>
>THE GORELICK PHONE CALL
>
>After Macy lost the appeals hearing, he met with bombing victim
>Glenn Wilburn and Representative Key, explaining that he wished
>to cooperate with their investigation. Three days later, the two
>men discovered that Macy had decided to contest the Appeals
>Court's decision. When a furious Key confronted Macy, all that
>the "courageous, truth-seeking" DA told him was, "They won't let
>me." When Key demanded to know who "they" were, Macy just lowered
>his eyes to the floor and repeated, "They won't let me." [1]
>
>Key later learned from a source at ABC News that Macy had
>received a conference call from Janet Reno's deputy Jamie
>Gorelick, and the government's lead prosecutor, Joseph Hartzler,
>along with Governor Keating, Oklahoma City Fire Chief Gary Marrs,
>and Judge Daniel Owens. Interestingly, during a debate on FOX TV
>with Representative Key, Keating stated, "Nobody could get away
>with a cover-up; it would not be tolerated by civilized Oklahoma
>City.... Nobody's afraid of the truth." [2]
>
>KFOR's Jayna Davis shed some light on the "truth-seeking" efforts
>of Bob Macy and the good ole' boy network of politicos from which
>he descends. Two years earlier, after an 8-year-old boy was
>raped, both Davis and the Public Defender demanded to know why
>Macy hadn't done anything. When Macy thought the camera was off,
>he whipped around and sternly admonished the reporter: "Lady, I
>don't know who you are or where you came from, but this isn't how
>we do business in Oklahoma!" [3]
>
>This is the same Bob Macy who argued that it would be "a waste of
>the taxpayers' time and money to convene an Oklahoma County Grand
>Jury when one was already in session or when a Federal Grand Jury
>had already heard all available evidence."
>
>The Oklahoma Supreme Court did not agree with Macy. They
>unanimously upheld Key's right to impanel the grand jury, which
>is hearing evidence as of this writing.
>
>REP. KEY SUBPOENAED OVER INTERNET LETTER
>
>On May 7, 1997, Oklahoma State Attorney General Drew Edmondson
>subpoenaed Rep. Charles Key before a multi-county grand jury,
>alleging that he violated procedures in raising money for the
>bombing investigation. The Daily Oklahoman proudly proclaimed how
>it had played a critical role in bringing about the investigation
>of Key:
>
> The attorney general's action is a result of an inquiry by
> The Oklahoman about Key's seven-page solicitation letter on
> the Internet. The letter asks for money to "secure copies of
> the voluminous (federal) government documents and to pay
> independent investigators" and other expenses for the county
> grand jury investigation.... [4]
>
>According to Key's attorney, Mark Sanford, Key violated no rules
>at all. Another attorney who represented Key at the grand jury
>inquest, Representative Bill Graves, stated: "The law is pretty
>clear that you are not required to register before you hit the
>ten thousand dollar threshold, and Charles [Key] had not hit that
>limit so was not required to register. Edmondson knows that.
>They're just trying to slow Charles down or stop him through
>harassment." [5]
>
>"This is all about stopping us and making us shut up, said Key.
>"If I would just quit the grand jury deal, this would all go
>away." [6]
>
>Says V. Z Lawson, a HUD worker who survived the bombing, "You
>don't have to be that bright or look that hard to see the fraud
>and hypocrisy in these charges. For over a year and a half,
>they've been doing everything imaginable and employing the most
>absurd arguments to prevent Charles from impaneling a grand jury
>to investigate one of the worst crimes in our country's history.
>Now, after he's overcome all of their legal challenges in the
>courts and is close to getting a county grand jury investigation
>going, they drag him before a multi-county grand jury for what
>amounts to jaywalking, while the bombing and other genuine,
>serious crimes go uninvestigated." [7]
>
>PSYOPS ARE INTRODUCED
>
>Lawson also brought to the attention of bombing investigators a
>February 5th, fax transmission to federal employees on the
>official letterhead of Attorney General Drew Edmondson. The
>letter sought signatures from survivors to go with letters that
>were to be sent to various news organizations. The cover sheet
>said it came from Richard M. Wintory, Chief Deputy Attorney
>General of the Criminal Division. The letter, entitled, "A Plea
>to the Media from Oklahoma City: Don't O.J. Us!!!" purports to be
>a spontaneous response from victims asking the media not to
>"manipulate" and "exploit" them "for no purpose other than to
>enhance their ratings on the air and in publications."
>
>This obvious propaganda counteroffensive was in response to ABC
>20/20's January, 1996 show about prior knowledge. It referred to
>the "so-called report" by ABC as "tabloid journalism" filled with
>"unsubstantiated and baseless claims that have been repeatedly
>debunked."
>
>"We are appalled at the lack of interest in the truth and the
>underhanded method utilized by 20/20" stated the letter, which
>claimed that ABC had wrongfully implied that certain victims
>agreed with the "paranoid delusion" of the "ridiculous theory of
>government conspiracy in this crime." It added that "reporters
>are sometime tempted to forget the truth." Ultimately, it stated,
>"It is PEOPLE that matter in this life, neither money nor
>possession nor a Pulitzer Prize."
>
>This classic PSYOP piece launched by Edmondson (which he angrily
>denied in a letter to the author) was signed, "Many Survivors and
>Family Members, Oklahoma City Bombing."
>
>HUD employees V. Z. Lawson and Jane Graham were two survivors who
>angrily denounced the letter for the sham that it was. "Since the
>communication was loaded with lies and half truths, I certainly
>could not sign it," said Lawton, "and I felt like a state
>attorney general could better spend his time supporting an effort
>to find the truth rather than this transparent effort at helping
>to hide it."
>
>"I am angry," stated Graham in a typed response to the letter,
>"that the attorney general's office would play on the emotions of
>this office at HUD under the guise of keeping us posted on how
>they are proceeding and planning the case, causing further
>emotional turmoil in this office between employees." [8]
>
>Edmondson's blatant attempt at coercing the victims to pander to
>the official government line is similar to a letter from a group
>of victims suggesting passage of the Anti-Terrorism Bill. The
>recipients were urged to call Edmondson if they were interested
>in participating. Of course, while Edmondson accuses ABC 20/20 of
>"manipulating" and "exploiting" the bombing victims, it is
>obvious that Edmondson himself hasn't done anything to manipulate
>or exploit anyone.
>
>
>[An edited excerpt of David Hoffman's forthcoming book "The
>Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror." For more
>information, see
>http://www.webcom.com/haight/headshop/Hoffman.book.ad.html ]
>
>
>Notes:
>
>1. Rep. Charles Key, interviews with author.
>
>2. Rita Cosby, FOX News, 4/4/97.
>
>3. Interview with Jayna Davis. Macy's Assistant DAs who handled
>that case were John Farely and Jane Brown.
>
>4. Daily Oklahoman, 8/14/97.
>
>5. Mark Sanford, interview with author; William Jasper, "OKC
>Investigator Under Attack, " New American, 6/23/97.
>
>6. Brian Ford, "Fund-Raising Probed: Jury Looks into Efforts of
>Rep. Charles Key," Tulsa World, 5/6/97.
>
>7. Jasper, Op Cit.
>
>8. Ibid.
>
> Published in the Sep. 15, 1997 issue of The Washington Weekly
> Copyright 1997 The Washington Weekly (http://www.federal.com)
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