Report Criticizes FBI's Okla. City Probe

[DoYouEverWonder]

December 24, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The FBI failed to fully investigate information suggesting other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, allowing questions to linger more than a decade after the deadly attack, a congressional inquiry concludes.

The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack but far too many unanswered questions remain.

The subcommittee's report will conclude there is no doubt McVeigh and Nichols were the main perpetrators, and it discloses for the first time that Nichols confirmed to House investigators he participated in the robbery of an Arkansas gun dealer that provided the proceeds for the attack.

There have long been questions about that robbery because the FBI concluded McVeigh was in another state at the time it occurred.

The report also sharply criticizes the FBI for failing to be curious enough to pursue credible information that foreign or U.S. citizens may have had contact with Nichols or McVeigh and could have assisted their plot.

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-oklahoma-city-congress,0,3802773.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

'The FBI failed to fully investigate' - Gee, ya think?

[Imagevision]

1. More example's of the Bush - F.B.I. & the D.O.D functioning improperly

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. This investigation was mainly during Clinton's term

but it certainly has gotten worse since Bush came in.

BTW: Wonder how the FBI's 9-11 investigation is going? Seems they haven't done anything since they named the hijackers and blamed it on Osama.

[rebel with a cause]

3. I wonder if

this is just a way to throw attention on Clinton's years and get it off of bush for awhile. Plus it says there is no evidence of foreign connection, but too many questions go unanswered. Huh, maybe this is a way of tying Iran into a terrorist attack, just like Iraq was involved with 9/11.

[RamboLiberal]

4. Some in the RWingnuttery are convinced Saddam was

involved.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110002217

The Iraq Connection
Was Saddam involved in Oklahoma City and the first WTC bombing?

BY MICAH MORRISON
Thursday, September 5, 2002 12:01 a.m. EDT

OKLAHOMA CITY--With the Sept. 11 anniversary upon us and President Bush talking about a "regime change" in Iraq, it's an apt time to look at two investigators who connect Baghdad to two notorious incidents of domestic terrorism. Jayna Davis, a former television reporter in Oklahoma City, believes an Iraqi cell was involved in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building here. Middle East expert Laurie Mylroie links Iraq to the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and has published a book on the subject.

Both cases are closed, of course--in the public mind if not quite officially. Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder in the Oklahoma City bombing and executed in June 2001; Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison for conspiracy and manslaughter, and faces a further trial on murder charges. In the World Trade Center bombing, prosecutors convicted six men of Middle Eastern origin on the theory that they operated in a "loose network." One suspect remains at large, but the apparent ringleader, known as Ramzi Yousef, was captured in Pakistan and is now in federal prison in the U.S.

The prosecutors in both episodes believe they got their men, and of course conspiracy theories have shadowed many prominent cases. Still, the long investigative work by Ms. Davis and Ms. Mylroie, coming to parallel conclusions though working largely independently of each other, has gained some prominent supporters. Former CIA Director James Woolsey, for example, recently told the Journal that "when the full stories of these two incidents are finally told, those who permitted the investigations to stop short will owe big explanations to these two brave women. And the nation will owe them a debt of gratitude."

Ms. Davis, for example, has a copy of a bulletin put out by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol immediately after the Murrah bombing. It specifies a blue car occupied by "Middle Eastern male subject or subjects." According to police radio traffic at the time, also obtained by Ms. Davis, a search was on as well for a brown Chevrolet pickup "occupied by Middle Eastern subjects." When an officer radioed in asking if "this is good information or do we really not know," a dispatcher responded "authorization FBI." Law-enforcement sources tell Ms. Davis that the FBI bulletin was quickly and mysteriously withdrawn.

[RC]

5. FBI Chided for OKC Bomb Investigation

FBI Chided for OKC Bomb Investigation
By JOHN SOLOMON Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press - Monday, December 25, 2006
WASHINGTON

A two-year congressional inquiry into the Oklahoma City bombing concludes that the FBI didn't fully investigate whether other suspects may have helped Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols with the deadly 1995 attack, allowing questions to linger a decade later.

The House International Relations investigative subcommittee will release the findings of its two-year review as early as Wednesday, declaring there is no conclusive evidence of a foreign connection to the attack, but that far too many unanswered questions remain.

The subcommittee's report will conclude there is no doubt McVeigh and Nichols were the main perpetrators, and it discloses for the first time that Nichols confirmed to House investigators he participated in the robbery of an Arkansas gun dealer that provided the proceeds for the attack.

There have long been questions about that robbery because the FBI concluded McVeigh was in another state at the time it occurred.

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The subcommittee report concludes the Justice Department should not have rushed to execute McVeigh in 2001 after he dropped his court appeals, and officials should have made more efforts to interview and question him about evidence suggesting he might have gotten help from other people who remain unpunished.

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http://www.in-forum.com/ap/index.cfm?page=view&id=D8M7PNL00

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Has anyone else notice when anything bad happens anywhere, our government seems to drag their feet on any investigations?

[MrPrax]

6. That was strange...

and maybe the strangest part of OKC as to why the State decided to destroy one of it's key pieces of evidence before the whole investigation was complete or even if the Nichols trial had concluded.

It's not like there is are more than enough people living on death row for years -- so why the hurry?

Was it really more important to show justice being 'vengeance' more than appearing thorough?