Word: atf
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...components, but further tests must be done to determine whether chemically identical substances are present in all the bombs. Jurisdictional splits are causing bureaucratic competition. The Olympic Park bomb is being tested at the FBI lab in Washington while the clinic and nightclub devices are being examined at the ATF lab in Atlanta...
...Northwest, but no decisive evidence has been produced, at least publicly. To solicit more help, the FBI opened a toll-free phone line so potential tipsters can hear the 911 warning call that preceded the bombing. For now, separate teams of investigators from the FBI and the ATF will be looking into the nightclub and abortion-clinic explosions...
...also appeared in the antigovernment press. In Cash's interview, Howe says she learned that Mahon and Strassmeir (whom she claimed she "kinda had a relationship with") were casing the Murrah Building and two other federal buildings. In Cash's account, Howe insisted she had reported this to the ATF...
Sources in the Federal Government admit that Howe was a paid ATF informant in Elohim City from August 1994 until March 1995, but they say her 38 surreptitious tapes contained no evidence of a bombing conspiracy in the works. Only when she was debriefed two days after the bombing, government sources say, did she claim that Mahon and Strassmeir had discussed bombing government buildings. Agents familiar with the interview considered her answer speculative; in any case, she offered no additional details...
Howe's charges, if they are substantiated, may bolster McVeigh's defense. But it is unclear if his lawyer Stephen Jones will risk calling her to the stand. Her testimony could be effectively attacked by prosecutors, citing ATF records that show she was fired as an informant because of erratic behavior and unreliability. Still, Jones believes the government has proof that Strassmeir and Mahon were involved in a bombing plot and was "obligated" to disclose it. At any rate, in the wake of recent reports about faulty FBI lab procedures, the government does not need Howe's tales to muddy...