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...have finally reached the end of the Timothy McVeigh saga. Thursday afternoon, after a day of considering arguments from McVeigh?s attorneys and government counterparts, a three-judge panel from the 10th U.S. Circuit denied McVeigh's request for a stay of execution, saying his attorneys "utterly failed to demonstrate substantial grounds" why he should should not die next week in Terre Haute, Indiana. What's next? McVeigh's attorney Robert Nigh said Thursday evening his client is "prepared to die," and does not want to continue his appeals. According to Nigh, McVeigh has no plans to ask for presidential...
...been a bad week for McVeigh; Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch refused to delay the execution date for the convicted Oklahoma City bomber, ruling that McVeigh should die on Monday, June 11th for his role in the 1995 explosion that killed 168 people...
...insiders, the only surprise about the McVeigh case document foul-up is that it took so long for the bureau?s file management woes to surface. Ever since the early 1980s, when the bureau began its transition from paper to an automated computer system, agents have mocked the records management division as an oxymoron, like "military intelligence...
...that was completely the opposite of what had been said. The senior management of the FBI hadn't been aware of the document and had made representations in good faith that they'd been adequately briefed, and they hadn't. It was scorched earth every time." As in the McVeigh case, the FBI's critics suspected the worst - that FBI agents were conspiring to cover up some important truth. But in nearly all those cases, no deliberate deception was ever found. "We were just getting pummeled for the stupidity of a crummy record system," says a former official...
...problem highlighted by the McVeigh case document flap, Dies says, is that even when a field office correctly dispatched documents to the command center in Oklahoma City, there was no system for acknowledging their receipt and logging them in, which meant that the sending office never knew whether the documents got to the McVeigh case file...