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Report: Satellite Used After Ok. Bombing
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Posted on 12/15/2005 9:44:25 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Report: Satellite Used After Ok. Bombing

21 minutes ago

In the days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the U.S. government used a spy satellite to gather intelligence on a white separatist compound in Oklahoma, according to a published report.

The McCurtain Daily Gazette reported Wednesday that it had obtained a Secret Service log indicating that on May 2, 1995 — two weeks after the April 19 bombing — the FBI was trying to locate suspects for questioning. They were thought to be in Elohim City, a compound near the town of Muldrow.

"Satellite assets have been tasked to provide intelligence concerning the compound," the document says.

Shown a copy, Secret Service spokesman Jonathan Cherry told The Associated Press he could not confirm it was a Secret Service document and declined further comment.

There was no indication in the document of what information the satellite might have gathered, or what the spacecraft was capable of doing.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: intelligence; okcbombing; spying
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1 posted on 12/15/2005 9:44:27 AM PST by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Remote sensing technology along with mass data storage will someday (if it isn't now) be able to allow intelligence agencies track suspects/criminals/terrorists movements, either real-time, or after the fact.


2 posted on 12/15/2005 9:47:37 AM PST by z3n
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To: Sub-Driver

...And liberals complain about Patriot Act powers under Bush.


3 posted on 12/15/2005 9:48:11 AM PST by loreldan (Lincoln, Reagan, & G. W. Bush - the cure for Democrat lunacy.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wow, new news, only 10 years old.


4 posted on 12/15/2005 9:49:13 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Um... unless those assest belonged to the FBI someone will be in trouble .


5 posted on 12/15/2005 9:55:54 AM PST by Walkingfeather
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To: Sub-Driver
Oh, but there was never any indication that the skinheads were involved... or Muslims... or that Carol Howe was an FBI informant... or that the leader of Elohim City was on the FBI payroll.

Honest. There isn't a shred of evidence to indicate that Billy Boy and the FBI knew Oklahoma City was coming down.

6 posted on 12/15/2005 9:56:26 AM PST by Reactionary (The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
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To: Reactionary

they never claimed they weren't investigating the links, just that they couldn't substantiate them.


7 posted on 12/15/2005 9:59:33 AM PST by Third Order
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To: Reactionary
Oh, but there was never any indication that the skinheads were involved... or Muslims... or that Carol Howe was an FBI informant... or that the leader of Elohim City was on the FBI payroll.

If Jayna Davis is correct, and I tend to think she is, then the whole Elohim City thing is quite probably disinformation.

ML/NJ

8 posted on 12/15/2005 10:00:20 AM PST by ml/nj
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To: Sub-Driver
Hmmmmm. And I was under the impression that satellite surveillance was not used on people in the U.S. I asked somebody "in the know" one time why they couldn't use sat pictures to prove O.J. is a murderer and was told "we don't spy on our own people".

I'm sure a lot more heinous crimes could be solved using such technology, but at what expense to our privacy?

9 posted on 12/15/2005 10:00:38 AM PST by GLDNGUN
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To: Third Order
"...they never claimed they weren't investigating the links, just that they couldn't substantiate them."

One gets the impression that they were far too busy forging FBI eye witness testimony to care.

10 posted on 12/15/2005 10:01:06 AM PST by Reactionary (The Stalinist Media is the Enemy)
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To: Sub-Driver
And since McVeigh was already in custody, they were looking for who, exactly? The middle-eastern-looking John Doe Number Two? Or their informant?

The Clinton Administration perfected the art of Telling the Truth Slowly. This news is about ten years old. The last chapter on the OKC Bombing has yet to be written.

Despite the fact they had a sketch done of John Doe Number Two, the FBI now insists he does not exist.

see:
http://www.glennbeck.com/okc/sot1.htm

http://www.jaynadavis.com/story.html
11 posted on 12/15/2005 10:01:13 AM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

ping...


12 posted on 12/15/2005 10:03:59 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: caver

"Wow, new news, only 10 years old."

The racist compound leaks follow a pattern generally. Usually they come after someone raises noise about Nichols trips to the Philippines. A counter-leak strategy.

Since Nichols had no connection to the compound its in his lawyers interest to point the finger there. Talking about the Philippines can only implicate him.


13 posted on 12/15/2005 10:04:54 AM PST by Shermy
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To: Shermy

It ought to be intersting in the future as more slowly comes out. Of course we may all be dead by then. Maybe my grandkids will read about it.


14 posted on 12/15/2005 10:09:39 AM PST by caver (Yes, I did crawl out of a hole in the ground.)
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To: Sub-Driver

It's almost a pity that Mike Rivero was banned....


15 posted on 12/15/2005 10:11:33 AM PST by r9etb
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To: z3n

Don't forget about tracking of cell phones as well as vehicles with On-Star, tollway transponders, and similar devices.

Big Brother is watching you.


16 posted on 12/15/2005 10:12:40 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Sub-Driver

I didn't think the FBI had any satellites. Since the NRO, NSA and CIA are not supposed to spy on Americans within our borders this information is a little, shall we say, discomforting.


17 posted on 12/15/2005 10:15:23 AM PST by rattrap
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To: Sub-Driver

And this is a problem why? If it catches the bad guys, I'm for it.


18 posted on 12/15/2005 10:16:52 AM PST by SueRae
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To: ml/nj

I agree with your view of Jayna Davis. She certainly has accurate information.


19 posted on 12/15/2005 10:17:27 AM PST by southland (We were not bluffing during the cold war.)
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To: z3n
Did you ever see Enemy of the State? In the movie, the CIA was able to review satellite imagery to track a car that had left a store some time before to its eventual destination. Pretty cool stuff. No reason why it could not be done. I think the JSTARS system does the same thing on a theater-wide basis, from an airborne platform.
20 posted on 12/15/2005 10:17:55 AM PST by gridlock (eliminate perverse incentives)
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