The original Federal judge in the cse, Judge Wayne Alley was specifically warned by the US Marshals of a possible attack at that time. Alley stayed home and worked (not on vacation) after April 4, 1995 and he had his grandchildren taken out of the Murrah building day care center. Alley told this story to his hometown newspaper the Oregonian shortly after the bombing.
The US prosecutor Beth Wilkinson admitted to Judge Matsch and Stephen Jones in a 1996 pretrial hearing that the US government had in fact warned "the members of the Federal family" in OKC in March 1995(Fed judges, FBI, BATF and CIA are part of the Fed family) about an attack on a federal building (only two fed buildings in OKC and they were across the street from each other). The US Marshals are also charged with the responsibility of protecting the Federal family.
And the US Marshals were observed talking to occupants of a large Ryder truck (like the one driven by McVeigh) near barricades near the Murrah building and Federal Court house on the morning of the bombing, April 19, 1995 before the blast at 9:02 am.
It is also believed that the Marshals were aware of and coordinating bomb squads and bomb sniffing dogs outside the Murrah building the morning of the bombing before the blast. Witness and licensed detective Claude Criss testified about this before the County Grand Jury.
The Marshals may have also been involved in a bomb search outside (with transponder detection equipment) and inside the Murrah building known to have happened around 3 am on April 19,1995.
And evidence was formally presented in an appeals hearing by McVeigh's attorneys to Judge Matsch about another US Marshal allegedly tampering with evidence and allegedly unlawfully tampering with communications between McVeigh and his attorneys. Matsch received but chose to ignore the formal evidence on this presented by the McVeigh attorneys during the appeals.
From the article:
"Prosecutors alleged Bailey began a sexual affair with an alternate juror shortly after McVeigh's trial ended in June 1997. As an alternate, the juror did not take part in deciding whether McVeigh was guilty. "
Are alternate jurors aware of jury deliberations even though they do not vote? And when a trial is "ended" (to use the phrase in the article) is that when the jury deliberations begin? Even if the answers to both of these questions is no (I believe the answers can easily be yes), there is an implied contact and friendship developing between the marshal and the alternate juror even before the sexual affair began and BEFORE THE TRIAL ENDED. Since the Marshal committed perjury how do we know that we even have the truth now about the extent and earliest date of significant contact between the two?
My concern is whether or not the US government learned of on going secret jury deliberations from the alternate juror via the Marshal to have some effect or control over the Judge, jury and proceedings and presentation of evidence, and defense strategies. Otherwise, the personal life of the Marshal and the alternate is a private matter except for the Marshal's perjury.
US prosecutor Sean Connelly is preparing a final report for Ashcroft on the FBI mishandling of OKC bomb evidence. In my opinion Connelly should be prosecuted for perjury and obstruction of justice during the Nichols and McVeigh trials because I believe he knew about and helped the FBI withhold and falsify the evidence in the cases. He also refused to receive evidence from the attorney for Jayna Davis of the ME connection for over four years. I believe Connelly lied to Judge Matsch in a July 7, 1999 appeals hearing for Nichols and his attorney Michael Tigar concerning the evidence that by then had been received by the FBI from Jayna Davis (Jan-Feb 1999).
ANY (not all) US MArshals and US prosecutors and members of the FBI, BATF and CIA and OK state Bureau of Investigation who have perjured themselves, or falsified or withheld evidence or threatened witnesses in the OKC bombing case should not expect God's protection from terrorist attacks that may be made on them until they repent of their evil.
They arrogantly shirked their special responsibility to protect the public from the terror attack on April 19, 1995 and all they did was protect themselves and make the lives of good witnesses miserable. They, by their actions, have now made all innocent Americans vulnerable to attack by other John Does, domestic and foreign, who are still at large and operating in the US in cells planning more attacks.