Still Waiting.
Posted on 11/24/2007 7:04:14 AM PST by John W
A retired FBI deputy director reveals in a new book that a team of agents re-examined the Oklahoma City bombing case because of a resurgence in conspiracy theories in 2004 but found no new leads to check out.
"Their finding?” Weldon Kennedy wrote. "All participants and conspirators in the OKBOMB case were identified in the original investigation. There was no credible information uncovered indicating otherwise nor was there any avenue of investigation neglected.”
Kennedy, 69, oversaw the FBI's investigation of the bombing in the first couple of months after the attack on April 19, 1995. He spoke for the FBI at news conferences in Oklahoma City that were broadcast across the country.
He wrote about his experience in Oklahoma City in a memoir, "On-Scene Commander.”
Kennedy retired from the FBI in 1997 but told The Oklahoman he learned of the re-examination of the bombing case "through my continuing association with contemporaries in the FBI and so forth.”
"I've not seen any of the documents ... but I'm told that that review was very comprehensive and quite conclusive that there was ... no lead, no avenue unexplored, in the entire case,” he said in a telephone interview.
In his book and the interview, Kennedy was critical of conspiracy theorists who say the FBI didn't catch everyone involved.
"There's no possible way there were other conspirators,” he wrote. "I can say with total confidence that we identified all three conspirators in the case and arrested them.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsok.com ...
Who was John Doe #2, and why didn’t the government want anyone who had seen him to testify at McVeigh’s trial? Why did the BATFE agents who worked in the building get a notice to take the day off? Why was Terrence Yeakey killed, but reported as a suicide?
I was just reading this on Fox
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,312712,00.html
-snip-
In his book, Kennedy wrote that the mysterious “John Doe No. 2” turned out to be “someone’s memory playing tricks on him.” FBI sketches of “John Doe No. 2” were released worldwide after witnesses said that man was with McVeigh when the bomb truck was rented in Junction City, Kan.
Kennedy said he is certain there are no others involved in the bombing because McVeigh and Nichols used a telephone calling card — purchased under a fake name — in their plot to find bombing materials and to keep in contact. The FBI was able to track where the two called.
“If there in fact was another conspirator, I am absolutely convinced that we would have been able to identify him through the telephone (records) and through other investigation that we did which was exhaustive,” he said.
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And of you go through bomb damage calculations for an ANFO bomb, the lbs per square inch is not enough to shatter the concrete columns several yards away from the blast point. So why were these columns destroyed? Why was there such hast in tearing down the building?
Why was there no crater in the street? Why were there other explosives found in the rubble?
Pretty unlikely for more than one person to have the exact same memory failure - good enough for a police sketch artist.
Who murdered Mike Loudenslager?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22Mike+Loudenslager%22+OKC
The incompetence of the FBI was demonstrated a few years ago when Terry Nichols fessed up to the fact that there were still explosives hidden in one of his homes, which hadn't been discovered--
This book has all the value of the Warren Commission. If there was a conspiracy, the last thing an FBI suit would want to do is expose it. Why indeed were some columns sheared off, while others that were closer to the truck bomb unaffected? Why was the crater so small? Why indeed was there such a rush to tear the building down, and bury the rubble under guard? Why were so very few of the confiscated video tapes (e.g. security videos from nearby stores) ever released or shown to the public? What about the video that showed McVeigh ordering a burger during the time he was allegedly somewhere else?
Kennedy retired from the FBI in 1997 but told The Oklahoman he learned of the re-examination of the bombing case "through my continuing association with contemporaries in the FBI and so forth.”
Oooh, now there's some heavy-duty gravitas. The impressive vitae entry, So-Forth.
I love this:
"'I've not seen any of the documents ... but I'm told that that review was very comprehensive and quite conclusive that there was ... no lead, no avenue unexplored, in the entire case,' he said in a telephone interview."
Well, alrighty then. He was told. By someone. Ya just don't get much more conclusive than that.
so..
the original AIC of the investigation now confirms that in the original work-
1. all participants and conspirators were identified
2. no credible information uncovered indicating otherwise
3. no avenue of investigation was neglected.
Really? Not ONE?
this is based on-
“I’ve not seen any of the documents ... but I’ve been told.”
Why can’t this country hold a real investigation into anything where true, unbiased experts do the work-
instead of everything being done by political hacks with a preset agenda?
In science this is called an “uncorroborated” proof.
Nada Nadim Prouty and Mr. Whitey Bulger, please pick up the white courtesy phones.
The most telling piece of evidence for me is how we were never allowed to hear a word from McVeigh and the lightning speed (no pun intended) with which he was executed. People on death row usually last ten or twelve years no problem. He was gone in what--two at the most?
You are right. If the building had been properly constructed, that ANFO blast shouldn't have done the damage it did. However, a shoddily built Federal Building, as this one appears to have been, could have been taken down by a lesser explosive charge than one would expect to use on a properly constructed building.
The haste in tearing down the remnants of this Federal Building could have been to hide the fact the tax payers had been ripped off and someone's "brother-in-law" made a profit from shabbily constructing the building in the first place.
Conspiracy theories sometimes make more sense if you look for a "greed" motive rather than some other nefarious plot.
Richard Clarke in his book, dismissed the two clowns charged as so incompetent that they couldn’t get a firecracker to go off by themselves. This guy is covering his butt for good reason.
...and the famous camo clad leg minus the rest of the body?
...and I would still be willing to bet, there is a muslim connection somewhere. This was also the time frame when numerous explained and unexplained aircraft accidents were taking place with JFK airport as a connection. How interesting that since 9-11 things of that nature have suddenly stopped.
What's next...an "objective investigation" of "An Inconvenient Truth" by Tipper Gore?
The same FBI which refused to make arrests and issue warrants upon Saudi citizens (who later became 9/11 hijackers) pre-9/11--for fear of "offending" (official text from testimony) the Saudis. The same FBI which told us that the Salt Lake City Bosnian Muslim gunman had "no religious motives" before the bodies were even cold (despite what he himself was quoted by friends and family back home). The same FBI which told us that the Oklahama student who blew himself up on a park bench outside a loaded football stadium with explosives used by Al Queda and who had Jihad posters all over his dorm room had "no connection to Islam or jihad". The same FBI which holds a "Muslim Outreach Day" at their HQ every year.
Unless there is a videotaped confession by the terrorist and they can't suppress it, the FBI will not admit that any attempted or successful terror attack in America was the work of Muslim jihadists.
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