"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth."
Posted on 06/30/2005 11:24:54 AM PDT by CHARLITE
After a meeting with convicted Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, a U.S. congressman reaffirmed evidence of a Middle East connection to the 1995 attack.
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. – who has publicly vowed to address unanswered questions about the bombing – went with a staff aid to the super-maximum security prison in Florence, Colo., where Nichols is serving 161 consecutive life sentences, according to the Northeast Intelligence Network, a private, counter-terrorist research and investigation group.
In his quizzing of Nichols, the congressman relied heavily on the investigative work of journalist Jayna Davis and her book, "The Third Terrorist: The Middle Eastern Connection to the Oklahoma City Bombing," published by WND Books.
Davis asserts Nichols and Timothy McVeigh were not the lone conspirators but were part of a greater scheme involving Islamic terrorists and at least one provable link to Iraq.
As WorldNetDaily reported, Rohrabacher has said he is "deeply disturbed" that the FBI did not follow up on affidavits Davis turned over to the bureau from 22 witnesses supporting evidence that Iraqi intelligence agents infiltrated the United States to recruit and assist McVeigh and Nichols.
Davis spoke with Rohrabacher after his visit with Nichols and gave a tape of her conversation to Northeast Intelligence Network Director Douglas Hagmann.
The congressman told Davis: "Yours is the only game in town that has any evidence."
Nichols acknowledged the existence of John Doe No. 2 – the alleged third terrorist – but stopped short of identifying him, claiming he "did not want to speculate."
However, according to Rohrabacher, Nichols said "he thought other people [beyond Nichols and Timothy McVeigh] were involved" in the Oklahoma City bombing.
"Timothy McVeigh on a number of occasions, had talked about Middle Easterners," Rohrabacher told Davis. "Terry didn't say anything that would dispel the theory, the central theory of your research, which is these people [witnesses featured in "The Third Terrorist"] actually saw Tim McVeigh and he was with Arabs, and these are the people that you tracked down."
Rohrabacher, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, said Nichols did not say anything that would undercut Davis' finding of a definitive Middle Eastern connection to the bombing.
The congressman said Nichols "didn't do anything that would in any way ... counter the witnesses that you have dug up and put on the record."
The witnesses provided sworn affidavits to Davis and Chicago-based attorney David Schippers, who served as chief investigative counsel to the House Judiciary Committee for the impeachment trial of former President Clinton.
Schippers also prosecuted a number of high-profile organized crime figures under U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
After conducting lengthy videotaped interviews with more than a dozen of Davis' confidential witnesses in May, Schippers stated: "Given the credibility of these witnesses, I could get an indictment with just one day of testimony before a grand jury."
Former CIA director James Woolsey also has found the witness statements accumulated by Davis to be credible, including many who attested to observing Middle Eastern nationals in the company of McVeigh and at the Murrah building at the time of the bombing.
Rohrabacher told Davis: "Your evidence remains the heaviest"
Despite the information he received from Nichols, the congressman told Davis he still was "in no hurry" to convene congressional hearings, but said he wanted to see more of her evidence.
As WND reported, on the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, in April, Rohrabacher asked in a House-floor speech why the FBI ignored strong evidence of a Middle East connection to the attack.
Rohrabacher said at the time that if the FBI does not provide satisfactory answers to his questions, he will call for congressional hearings.
Two years ago, on the eve of U.S. action in Iraq, Davis' reporting on the Oklahoma City bombing was vindicated when the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a lawsuit filed against her after finding "defendants did not recklessly disregard the truth" in reporting on an Iraqi soldier's alleged involvement in the bombing.
Read WorldNetDaily's extensive coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing case.http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29290
Your theory is worthless since Nichols is NOT going to be executed.
Ping
Where is Bodansky these days? He was the terrorist expert for Congress.
I think the woman I handed the book into does not like the conservative books I take out and when I donated that book, she read a little about it and realized how it would undermine the left and ditched it.
Exactly! He showed/perpetuated more fear for the Right than he did these terrorists. In fact, wasn't there another raid shortly after Waco...something to do with the Freeman in Montana? While I don't remember the details of this case, it is interesting to see just who Clinton thought were the threats to this country, while terrorism was running rampant thoughout the 90s.
As Janet Reno was passing out memos, ordering officials not to discriminate or profile Arabs, her boss was doing just that, as Christians, Militia members...and even Rush, became targets of vitriolic rhetoric aimed at perpetuating an image that the "right" was the real terrorists in this country. And as was noted, OKC was an oppurtunity Clinton couldn't pass up as he could tie all these groups together...while ignoring what appears to be a real Mid-East link.
I dunno, my team leader just says point that damn thing at the bad guys and keep pressing on the trigger thingy.
I dunno, my team leader just says point that damn thing at the bad guys and keep pressing on the trigger thingy.
"You want the truth? You can't handle the truth."
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Which of course presumes that you, Peach, know the truth. Why are you waiting to share it with us? Or are you just looking at Jayna, saying "what she said"?
Help me out folks, the disconnect for me is what is the Bush admin getting out of continuing to cover this up. Let's face it, if the evidence were there, wouldn't Bush use it, if for no other reason than to drum up support for the war in Iraq?
Your book was infuriatingly informative. Made me want to strangle a bunch of RATs.
Jayna, I've lent your book to so many people who were initially skeptical but once they read it, it changed their minds completely.
One leftist has now changed their position regarding the war in Iraq as a result of your book.
You are a GREAT American! Thank you for all you have done.
Jim R. - an Americam citizen
Hm. You need to put down the SKS and pick up that nice M1 over there instead....
Read the book and get back to me.
Welcome back. Got any new tidbits of info?
Istook's aide knew nothing about a new investigation.
I would love to write a sequel to The Third Terrorist, but as a former news director once told me, I only report the meat of a story. Unless there is a major development, and arrests are made, or congressional hearings are convened, I cannot bring myself to publish a story that centers around questions with no solid vindication for the evidence presented in my book
Tell us what Dave Schippers thinks about the Iraqi connection.
Why isn't this breaking news?
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