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...into the uproar over the Tim McVeigh execution delay, we encountered FBI deputy director Tom Pickard and terrorism division chief Dale Watson trudging glumly across Pennsylvania Avenue from the Justice Department to the Hoover building. These two had had the unhappy task of informing Louis Freeh about the eleventh-hour discovery of a few thousand stray documents in the McVeigh case. We remarked that they didn't look too bloody for a couple of guys who had been at ground zero when the Director went off like a bushel basket of grenades...
...agents respected Freeh for his integrity, but his penchant for killing messengers and turning minor screw-ups into felonies earned him the nickname, "The Queen of Hearts" Not surprisingly, bad news sometimes didn't get to the Director until it had festered to really rotten. Case in point: the McVeigh mess, which began to crop up last January but which was kept from Freeh until it was leaking to reporters...
...light of the Timothy McVeigh case, it is absolutely unsurprising that Americans turn a deaf ear to European cries against capital punishment [NATION, May 21]. The policymakers of the U.S. must be either deliberately ignorant or blind to the happenings in other parts of the world, but they are steering the U.S. toward isolationism...
EXECUTED. TIMOTHY MCVEIGH, 33, convicted terrorist whose truck bomb killed 168 people in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995; by lethal injection; in Terre Haute, Ind. McVeigh spent his last day writing to friends, napping and eating a final meal of mint chocolate-chip ice cream. McVeigh made no final statement, offering instead a handwritten copy of the 1875 poem "Invictus." He was the first person executed by the Federal Government in 38 years...
Person of the Week EXECUTING JUSTICE? The lethal injection of unrepentant Oklahoma City Federal Building bomber Timothy McVeigh sparked a heated round of debate over capital punishment?both in the U.S. and abroad, where the issue cast a shadow over President George W. Bush's trip to Europe...