> I don’t think that the fertilizer bomb brought down that building.
Are you suggesting that a fertilzer bomb *couldn’t* bring down that building, or that it *didn’t*?
(I know you wrote implied that it “didn’t”: I am wondering if you are also implying that McVeigh’s bomb was incapable of doing the damage.)
It’s difficult to see how Clinton could have possibly benefited from the Oklahoma City bombings sufficiently to warrant a full-on Presidential cover-up. Where were you going with that idea?
I think Clinton was just trying something that worked against conservatives -- to some extent -- years earlier. He blamed conservatives.
I remember that there was some effort on the left to blame the emerging modern conservative movement for the assassination of JFK. It was conservative criticism of JFK that made Oswald do it, they said.
For example, though I do not remember Walter Cronkite saying this on the air but I have read that he reported that Senator Barry Goldwater was asked about the JFK assassination and snapped, "No comment." Cronkite later apologized, I've read. I definitely do remember CBS and other MSM employees' lies about Goldwater, though.
Also I definitely do remember conservative groups being roundly condemned for their criticism of JFK and the "climate of hate" (I believe was the phrase used) that Conservatives had created.
As I recall Clinton got a bump in poll numbers after OKC. IMO that alone was enough for a White House-directed quick end to the OKC investigation and the punishment of the two "lone" white guys.
Several experts said that the blast force of that particular-sized explosive would have dissipated before taking out most of the critical steel-reinforced support beams.
During the rescue ops there were several successive bomb scares, including some pics of personnel removing fairly large canisters from the parking garage area. (Later the FBI said that these were probably “sample bombs” kept in the FBI office to know what they looked like).
Clinton’s ratings were in the toilet, a real malaise, until this galvanizing event. If it turned out to be an FBI sting operation, to suck in German/Iraqi terrorists to plant explosives, then Clinton’s boost would have disappeared.
So the entire building, and the detailed investigation of where the blast points were, got razed 3-4 days later “to save the American people the continuing pain of looking at the ruined building.”