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Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help
The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | February 22, 2007 | Pamela Manson

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crapweaselalert; mad; nutjobalert; okbomb; okcbombing; tinfoil; tinfoilhat
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To: The_Reader_David
Nichols' sojourn in the Muslim region of the Philippines

The Philippines are listed as 5% Muslim, although some areas are much higher proportion. I have never seen anything about him spending time in the specifically Muslim parts of the Philippines.

61 posted on 02/21/2007 1:56:41 PM PST by Sherman Logan (I didn't claw my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.)
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To: cripplecreek
Sounds like misinformation to me. I can buy a coverup to hide government failure but not a coverup to hide deliberate government mass murder of american citizens.

I don't agree with the tinfoil hatters either,I think the OK bombing was a sting operation that went bad and not a deliberate act by the US government.
I do believe that the government knows more then they will ever let on about this mess, CYA and all that.

62 posted on 02/21/2007 1:58:08 PM PST by Charlespg (Peace= When we trod the ruins of Mecca and Medina under our infidel boots.)
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To: cripplecreek
Sounds like misinformation to me. I can buy a coverup to hide government failure but not a coverup to hide deliberate government mass murder of american citizens.
Me too. However, I'm also not as trusting of any government as to think them incapable of such activity.
Through out time governments have murdered their own citizens to promote some end. In this case though, I'm not sure what "end" would have been promoted.
Something seems funny to me about the whole thing. Do I think our government did it? - No, or course not; but something is weird about the whole "investigation". My suspicion (and it is just a suspicion) is that somehow we (CIA, DOJ, or even the US military) lent it's support to some group to achieve some end (overthrowing some two-bit dictator, drug lord, etc.)- and that group ended up turning that support back on us. The "cover-up", if any, was to prevent the embarrassment. We are notorious for backing folks who we end up fighting in the end.
One thing is for absolutely sure - I do not trust any entity, be it government, company, or whatever, that "investigates" themselves. Whoever pays the piper ends up getting the results desired.

Could the 'gubmnt conduct a cover up of the mass murder of US citizens? - sure, Waco is a good example of that IMHO. Murdered the whole gang of nuts, then eliminated all evidence.
Was it preplanned to kill them all as in some sort of conspiracy? I don't think so; I believe it was an ego power play that got out of hand. I was seriously disappointed in my fellow citizens for taking it so lightly though.
63 posted on 02/21/2007 1:59:12 PM PST by GrandEagle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is a lot of evidence that ties the fanatics at Elohim City in with the bombing, and also a lot of evidence that virtually everyone at Elohim City was a double agent, working for the FBI and the ATF, and one German intelligence agent who appears to have been working for the CIA.

There is also the mysterious missing suspect, who was then dropped.

There is also the evidence by an ordnance expert testifying that the concrete support pillars inside the building could never have been sheared off by an explosing at that distance, but that explosives must have been taped to the pillars themselves in the basement.

The only question in my mind is whether this was a sting operation that went bad, or a deliberate act of terrorism by certain agents in the FBI. Clinton had a big speech ready to go immediately after it happened, and most people agree that it turned the election around.

There was also a lot of talk that the FBI agents working in the building and their children in the daycare center were mysteriously absent that day. I don't know whether or not that story has been confirmed.


64 posted on 02/21/2007 2:01:01 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: misterrob

How about the Bohemian Grove?


65 posted on 02/21/2007 2:05:17 PM PST by alice_in_bubbaland (Remove the Seven Rules of Engagement, NOW!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Buying time ...


66 posted on 02/21/2007 2:07:10 PM PST by BunnySlippers (RUDY FOR PRESIDENT 2008)
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To: Quilla
Seeing the photo with Berger makes me again wonder why almost nobody finds it odd that Lee Hamilton is working for the criminal Sandy Berger at his Stonebridge International lobby firm.

stonebridge-internaional.com

Berger, lead principal, Hamilton, Board of Advisors.

67 posted on 02/21/2007 2:08:17 PM PST by cookcounty (ShaZam! Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger! stonebridge-international.com)
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To: MHGinTN
Think about this: the Iraqi secret police were very adept at forgeries and had many agents living in the US;

I've been reading "The Third Terrorist" by Jayna Davis. The book provides much credible evidence of collaboration by Iraqi agents in the bombing with McVeigh as the stool-pigion in the operation. The scary thing is how the FBI switched from looking for the third terrorist (the Iraqi connection) to running a coverup to deny all foreign connections. I have not yet finished the book, but thus far it has been both fascinating and disturbing.

68 posted on 02/21/2007 2:11:23 PM PST by 6SJ7
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To: twonie

If I recall, Slick Willie went to see Vince Foster's widow with over $400,000 in cash to help sooth her sorrow!


69 posted on 02/21/2007 2:12:15 PM PST by Stayfree (Check out our Flush Hillary Calendar at FLUSH HILLARY CALENDAR.COM!)
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To: cookcounty
make that spelling: stonebridge-internaTional.com

Hey, I came in second in the 6th grade spelling bee, I have a license to wing it.

70 posted on 02/21/2007 2:12:49 PM PST by cookcounty (ShaZam! Lee Hamilton now employed by Sandy Berger! stonebridge-international.com)
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To: Stayfree

And if I remember correctly, Vince Foster's son supposedly died under somewhat mysterious circumstances...don't remember when though!


71 posted on 02/21/2007 2:14:11 PM PST by Stayfree (Check out our Flush Hillary Calendar at FLUSH HILLARY CALENDAR.COM!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
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.

hmmmmm. That makes it sure sound like there were more involved than just 2 white guys. Maybe authorities should have paid more attention Jayna Davis and her investigations.

I always thought carrying out the rapid death sentence on McVeigh was strange. Bureaucracy hardly ever moves that fast. I always wondered 'why the rush?', especially with a new Presidential Administration just taking office. I guess that ole adage was the reason: Dead men tell no tales.
72 posted on 02/21/2007 2:14:21 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Quilla

You know the amazing thing about that photo of the monkeys in the White house is how in the heck does anyone fit on the same couch as Madeline Albright?


73 posted on 02/21/2007 2:15:29 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: cripplecreek
but not a coverup to hide deliberate government mass murder of american citizens.

What about Waco?

74 posted on 02/21/2007 2:15:43 PM PST by Homer1
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To: TomGuy
That makes it sure sound like there were more involved than just 2 white guys.

This short audio clip on NPR suggest that more were involved. Kind of hair raising.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1846269
75 posted on 02/21/2007 2:16:06 PM PST by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: All
The government has adamantly denied any wrongdoing in the [prisoner's] death.

Yes, Mr. Trentadue's brother was found hanged in his cell but the cell was blood-splattered and the prison personnel left the man hanging for at least ten minutes while they video-taped and photographed the cell.

Also, the cell was scrubbed down that same morning. The only outsider to see the cell before that was an EMT person who asked to see the cell because of the condition of the body.

The DOJ investigation had only the video, photos, body, and bloody personal items to go on; as well as, interviews; it admitted that items in the cell had been moved around and did not accurately depict the scene at the time of death.

The local coroner's office was alarmed at the condition of the body and notified the FBI. The prison's notification to the FBI merely reported that a prisoner had hanged himself, they were told to send in a report.

The DOJ essentially said that the blood-splattered cell was evidence of several clumsy attempts to kill himself, including trying to cut his own throat with a tube of toothpaste.

It was these puzzling government reports that started the dead man's brother on his quest to clarify and it's leading to all the rest.

Just one more reason to question the "government has adamantly denied any wrongdoing in the OKC bombing and the investigation."

76 posted on 02/21/2007 2:16:34 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Homer1

Wasn't much of a cover up. They killed a whole bunch of people on national TV.


77 posted on 02/21/2007 2:16:43 PM PST by cripplecreek (Peace without victory is a temporary illusion.)
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To: OESY

If I remember correctly, wasn't there a surface to air missile discovered in a area adjacent to an airport landing strip somewhere in Maryland (or in that region) before TWA flight 800 was taken out. Nobody ever connected the two as I recall!


78 posted on 02/21/2007 2:18:37 PM PST by Stayfree (Check out our Flush Hillary Calendar at FLUSH HILLARY CALENDAR.COM!)
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To: Quilla

You know the amazing thing about that photo of the monkeys in the White house is how in the heck does anyone fit on the same couch as Madeline Albright?


79 posted on 02/21/2007 2:23:03 PM PST by JewishRighter
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To: 6SJ7

Because it is so disturbing, most of your fellow Americans will count it as kook conspiracy and dissmiss it, aiding in the pernicious cover up. The same tendency was and continues to be exploited regarding the UFO phenomenon.


80 posted on 02/21/2007 2:27:54 PM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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