Posted on 02/21/2007 1:10:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.
The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.
Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined comment.
Nichols does not say what motive the government would have to be involved in the bombing.
The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who believes his brother's death in a federal prison was linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act, alleges that authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.
Trentadue's death a few months after the April 19, 1995, bombing was ruled a suicide after several investigations. The government has adamantly denied any wrongdoing in the death.
In his affidavit, Nichols says he wants to bring closure to the survivors and families of the attack on the Alfred B. Murrah Federal Building, which took 168 lives. He alleges he wrote then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004, offering to help identify all parties who played a role in the bombing but never got a reply.
Nichols is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colo. McVeigh, who carried out the bombing, was executed in 2001.
McVeigh and Nichols were the only defendants indicted in the bombing. However, Nichols alleges others were involved.
McVeigh told him he was recruited for undercover missions while serving in the military, according to Nichols. He says he learned sometime in 1995 that there had been a change in bombing target and that McVeigh was upset by that.
"There, in what I believe was an accidental slip of the tongue, McVeigh revealed the identity of a high-ranking FBI official who was apparently directing McVeigh in the bomb plot," Nichols says in the affidavit.
Nichols also says that McVeigh threatened him and his family to force him to rob Roger Moore, an Arkansas gun dealer, of weapons and explosives. He later learned the robbery was staged so Moore, who was in on the phony heist, could deny any knowledge of the bombing plot if the stolen items were traced back to him, Nichols claims.
He adds that Moore allegedly told his attorney that he would not be prosecuted in connection with the bombing because he was a "protected witness."
Moore could not be reached for comment Tuesday.
In addition, Nichols says McVeigh must have had help building the bomb. The device he and McVeigh built the day before the bombing did not resemble the one that ultimately was used, Nichols says, and "displayed a level of expertise and sophistication" that neither man had.
pmanson@sltrib.com
Seismograph at OU showing a small tremor just before the big one...?
Blew up someone who stole my clock radio and pawned it on West Main in Norman in '67. Like the kid though.
I want to know who was the owner of that leg they found but never found the body.
It could be an actual sting gone bad, but it could also be someone posing as FBI to mislead and control McVeigh, or it could be McVeigh making up a story that suited him when he wanted to give added drama and importance to the plot.
I'm not a natural conspiracy buff, but there is NO WAY that we have been given the full story of OKC, and no way that McVeigh and Nichols were the entirety of the plot. Impossible. In addition to all of the suggestive evidence and affidavits collected by Jayna Davis, and the ongoing mystery of "John Doe #2" who was neither Nichols nor anyone who has been identified to the public, there's the simple thumping FACT that McVeigh did not produce that enormous fertilizer bomb by himself (and Nichols was definitely not in OKC??).
It wouldn't necessarily be deliberate. It could have been that they were setting him up, or someone else, but someone was supposed to stop him at the last minute, and schedules got screwed up or something.
I agree, and if it was just a massive screwup, it could be that Islamic terrorists were who they were actually trying to catch.
Actually that's how I look at it. Also there were other things going on there that they really didn't want the public to know about. Things like the storage of some pretty serious weaponry that really should have been stored away from a public building.
Care to explain your tag-line?
late in the post but THIS HAS LEGS AND IT LEADS TO HILLARY.
more coming too.
Sorry, link didn't work. Try http://www.okhouse.gov/Journals/HJ2000/hjour43_00.rtf
What's it to you?
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Pull quote endorsements aren't evidence either.
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They are a quick and strong indication of a source of its existence should you decide to avail yourself. If you want to be spoon fed, you can go back to sleep like the rest of the public.
Another coincidence for the naysayers:
THE FINAL JIHAD: ANOTHER OKC BOMBING 'ODDITY'
Devvy Kidd
June 1, 2001
The bombing of the Murrah Building was over six years ago. Memories fade about things so I thought I'd resurrect one of the strangest aspects of this bombing you're not going to believe - but it's true. Try this one on for size:
Governor Frank Keating's brother, Martin Keating, wrote a manuscript in 1991, roughly four years before the OKC bombing. Gov. Frank Keating is a former FBI hot shot. His brother, Martin could not get this work published until after the bombing. This manuscript, now a published book, is titled The Final Jihad. In this book, Keating lays out a story of terrorists, based in OKC, who decide to bomb a federal building. Guess what the name of the one of the key "terrorists" in the book is? Tom McVey. And for the kicker of this fictional work: The terrorists in The Final Jihad are stopped by an Oklahoma highway patrolman for a broken tail light.
Now, let me see: We have a book in manuscript form written four years before the OKC bombing whose story line involves terrorists in Oklahoma City. This part of this fictional work comes true.
We have a main character in the book by the name of Tom McVey. In real life, the bomber four years later in OKC is named Tim McVeigh.
We have the terrorists in this fictional work stopped by Oklahoma state troopers for a broken tail light. In real life, our bomber, Tim McVeigh, is pulled over by an Oklahoma state trooper because of a missing license plate.
How's that for fiction being stranger than reality? In this book, remember it's written in 1991, our author also predicts the TWA downing and the World Trade Center bombing. Was this just a premonition that Mr. Keating had? Who knows, but this book sure does sound like a blue print for the bombing.
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