For Burton to suggest that the only basis for a congressional investigation into the Middle Eastern participation in the OKC bombing was the testimony of a single individual is simply not believable. Burton was pursuing a congressional investigation before Jayna Davis and her crowd ever introduced him to James Reser. So why then would he end an investigation because one witness was discredited? Simple. Smoke screen.
This little development is very reminiscent of activities outside the Oklahoma Grand Jury:
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U.S. Postal Employee Testifies for Grand Jury - TV Reporter Disavows Conspiracy
Judy Kuhlman, Diana Baldwin
09/20/1997
NOTE: Staff writer Ed Godfrey contributed to this report.
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Through her attorney, Tim McCoy, former KFOR reporter Davis disavowed some of the bombing conspiracy theories that have been reported.
"She also wants to make it perfectly clear that after her two-year exhaustive investigation, she has turned up no credible evidence that supports the theory that the federal government had sufficient prior warnings to prevent the bombing," McCoy said.
"She also wants to make it perfectly clear that after her two-year exhaustive investigation, she has turned up no credible evidence that supports the theory that the federal government had sufficient prior warnings to prevent the bombing," McCoy said.
I don't remember Davis (at least in recent memory) making statements that the government knew about the bombing in advance. I DO remember David Shippers taking that position, though. From what I have heard and read, Davis was making the case for middle-east involvement with McVeigh and Nichols and that it was being ignored by law enforcement and the feds.
I know I'm getting into tin-foil territory on this one, but it seemed a little odd to me when the remains of the building were cleared out way too soon for any serious structual survey to take place. Since the bobming was treated as a criminal act, the wreckage was a crime scene and should have been preserved once the rescue operations concluded.
Also, the "speed" in which McVeigh was executed was very uncommon in this day and age. Murderers on death row usually wait at least a decade to be executed, even when they don't want to appeal their sentance.
I don't think that the feds had anything to do with the bombing, but from appearances, they didn't seem to want anything to do with handling the ivestigation properly either.