"I'm thinking even more about Tim McVeigh and his missing license plate."
Good catch.
I like many others still think McVeigh had help.
I was surprised though, that the CIA or the FBI wasn't able to get him to talk.
The only other senario that I can think of is that they did get him to talk, but what he said was damaging to the Clinton administration and covered up like so many other events.
That having been said, in the same manner as anti-terrorism agents setup some of the Toronto terrorists to be picked up by border control agents on narcotics suspicions, undercover agents commonly setup bad guys to be picked up by other LEO's by breaking a tail light, etc. I have been suspicious from the outset that the Fed's penetrated McVeighs group and were setting up a sting but bungled it. Whoever removed his license tag probably thought what would be happening that day wasn't the real thing but a dress rehersal.