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The McCurtain Daily Gazette today reports several former powerful and high ranking Justice department officials confirm there was a coverup of the investigation to the Oklahoma City bombing. Ten years after the Oklahoma City bombing, a published report says several former high ranking Department of Justice officials who want to remain anonymous claim there was a coverup of the attack which killed 168 persons. The story is carried by the McCurtain Daily Gazette in Idabel whose reporter J-D Cash has spent a decade investigating the bombing and its ties to Elohim City, a religious and white separatist compound in eastern...

WASHINGTON - A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) may have had accomplices at the scene. "Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck," the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation. The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing...

<p>DALLAS — Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, a 45-year-old Muslim FBI agent, fired last year ostensibly for omitting personal information on his application, has been reinstated and plans to return to his job in a matter of weeks.</p> <p>Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, called the reinstatement "highly unusual."</p>

Muslim was rising fast in agency until ex-wife's fraud allegations Gamal Abdel-Hafiz wanted more from life than managing 7-Eleven stores in dangerous neighborhoods around Fort Worth. He yearned for a career in the law, something impressive. His dream was to be an FBI agent. It seemed impossible, but it wasn't. The FBI desperately needed Arabic speakers to work in counterterrorism. A naturalized American from Egypt with a college degree and military experience fit the profile of an almost ideal job candidate. In 1996, Mr. Abdel-Hafiz became perhaps the first immigrant Muslim to earn the badge of a special agent. He...

Mueller orders review of bombing investigation 2004-02-27 By JOHN SOLOMON .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The FBI on Friday ordered a formal review of some aspects of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing investigation, reopening the question of whether Timothy McVeigh may have had more accomplices in the worst domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history, The Associated Press has learned. Reacting to an AP story earlier this week, the FBI ordered agents to determine why some documents did not properly reach the bureau's Oklahoma City task force during the original investigation or get turned over to McVeigh's lawyers before...

FBI Suspected McVeigh Link to Robbers JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press WASHINGTON - The FBI believed Timothy McVeigh tried to recruit additional help in the days before the deadly 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and gathered evidence that white supremacist bank robbers may have become involved, according to government documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial. The retired FBI chief of the Oklahoma City investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said he was unaware of some evidence obtained by The Associated Press and that the investigation should be reopened to determine whether the robbery gang was linked to McVeigh. The evidence never shared with Defenbaugh's investigators...

<p>WASHINGTON — Keeping up with the latest around town is usually easy enough. Lately, however, several topics have been abuzz, and we find our attention drawn every which way.</p> <p>With the first anniversary of Sept. 11 almost upon us, terrorism remains the prime topic, particularly among radio talk shows and in e-mails. Washington is a virtual fortress; the vice president's home on Massachusetts Avenue is off limits to most of us; and Crawford, Texas, has doubled its population with U.S. Secret Service agents — none of which raises our eyebrows.</p>

Danny Defenbaugh, the Dallas FBI leader recommended for discipline for withholding information in the trial of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, said Tuesday that he chose retirement after being told he would be transferred to a Washington, D.C., job. Agent Defenbaugh, speaking on the last day of his 32-year bureau career and his four-year tenure in Dallas, said FBI Director Robert Mueller two weeks ago summoned him to a meeting about his future with the bureau. The FBI director said during the 10-minute meeting that he wanted Agent Defenbaugh to leave his Dallas post for an administrative job in the...

DALLAS- Danny Defenbaugh, the special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI office who was heavily criticized in a report last month for withholding information in the Timothy McVeigh trial, announced his retirement Wednesday. Defenbaugh, 51, said he would step down at the end of April after a 32-year career. He was named head of the Dallas FBI office in 1998, after leading the Oklahoma City bombing investigation. "It's been a long time," Defenbaugh said, declining to comment further. In a March 19 report, the Justice Department recommended Defenbaugh and three other agents be disciplined for the FBI's failure to...

In the months before Timothy McVeigh's execution, FBI supervisors knew the agency hadn't turned over dozens of documents to McVeigh's lawyers, yet failed to notify FBI headquarters or federal prosecutors, the Justice Department said in a highly critical report released Tuesday. The report also said agents "purposefully" refused to send information to the Oklahoma City Bombing Task Force, despite repeated requests, and even destroyed investigative files on the bombing probe. McVeigh was convicted of blowing up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, a blast that killed 168 and injured hundreds more. He was executed...

A top FBI agent says he kept quiet for months about the mishandling of files in the Oklahoma City bombing case because he wasn’t sure at first there was a real problem and didn’t want to “cry wolf.” The document blunder last year led to a delay in bomber Timothy McVeigh’s execution. Agent Danny Defenbaugh is criticized in an internal report for not notifying prosecutors and FBI headquarters of the problem sooner. In the 192-page report — released Tuesday — the U.S. Justice Department’s inspector general recommends Defenbaugh be disciplined. “Yeah, I should have sped it up, no question about...

The head of the Dallas FBI office Danny Defenbaugh was the FBI Inspector of the OKC Bomb Task Force. Today Defenbaugh accepted criticism in his role as inspector as reported in this article posted on FreeRepublic today: Agent in charge (of McVeigh investigation) accepts criticism “DALLAS, Mar 19, 2002 (United Press International via COMTEX) -- The FBI agent in charge of the Oklahoma City bombing investigation Tuesday accepted criticism in an inspector general's report for mishandling documents in the case that delayed Timothy McVeigh's execution.” Defenbaugh was responding to recommendations that supervisors in the FBI be reprimanded for their handling...