Full cover-up mode
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There is growing evidence the Islamic terrorist war on the United States began well before Sept. 11.
The government knows it, but it is actively keeping this information from the American people.
Government officials quoted anonymously in an Oct. 27 Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Dan Eggen claimed anthrax attacks plaguing the country are likely the work of one or more domestic extremists not connected to Osama bin Laden.
The report said FBI and the Postal Inspection Service are considering a wide range of possibilities, including "associates of right-wing hate groups and U.S. residents sympathetic to the causes of Islamic extremists."
As I wrote last week, the FBI's first inclination is to blame right-wing hate groups and to ignore the threat of Islamic terrorists. This is the principal reason why Islamic terrorists were allowed to penetrate our national security with audacious attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon in September. The FBI blew it. Its agents were looking in all the wrong places for terrorism.
This was a matter of official policy. How convenient that it fit right in with the political agenda of the Clinton administration.
Now, let's shift to a Nov. 3 column by James Patterson in the Indianapolis Star.
"While Terry Nichols, already convicted on federal charges in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, returned to court Monday to face the state's case against him, the government was squirming to squelch evidence that Nichols and Timothy McVeigh did not act by themselves."
Nichols' attorneys want to submit as evidence 22 affidavits from Oklahomans who say they saw McVeigh in the company of Middle Eastern men in the months leading up to the attack. A former FBI agent, Dan Vogel, wants to testify that he gave those affidavits, obtained by TV investigative reporter Jayna Davis, to FBI Agent Henry C. Gibbons.
Judge Ray Dean Linder ruled that Vogel couldn't testify because the Justice Department won't let him.
Imagine that. The government doesn't want evidence to be introduced into this high-profile case – and that's the end of it. Sounds more like Taliban justice than U.S. jurisprudence to me.
Here we are six years after the Oklahoma City bombing and the government is in full cover-up mode – still preventing evidence from being introduced into a trial on the case.
We've seen this before. We saw evidence purposely withheld from the McVeigh trial. The government went ahead and executed him anyway – on June 11, three months to the day before the Islamic terror attacks of Sept. 11.
What was the rush to do away with McVeigh? Why is the government withholding information from the American people tying McVeigh and Nichols to bin Laden?
That's exactly what Davis alleged on national television, as reported in WorldNetDaily on May 15. It's time to start putting the pieces together. If the FBI is afraid to do it – because it bungled the most important intelligence operation in the history of the United States – then it's up to the American people to do it.
"Is the government so terrified of the truth that it won't let a retired FBI agent testify about affidavits regarding the Oklahoma City bombing?" asks columnist Patterson. It appears so.
What other motivation could there be? Why is it even legal in the United States of America for the government to withhold – deliberately – evidence of a broader conspiracy of terrorism in the United States? Why isn't America rising up and demanding answers after Sept. 11?
I don't get it.
Davis, now represented by former House impeachment counsel David Schippers, presented Nichols' defense with the names of more than two dozen witnesses who identified several Arab men tied to various stages of the Oklahoma bombing plot. Included in that package were 200 pages of police and court records along with statements by law enforcement and intelligence sources that corroborated aspects of the eyewitness testimony.
Yes, I believe this terror war by bin Laden started not on Sept. 11, but well before that. I believe it began April 19, 1995, with the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City.
Do we want the truth? Can we handle it? Apparently the FBI doesn't think so.
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