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Last December FBI headquarters, for the fifth time, ordered that all the Oklahoma-bombing documents be permanently archived. As material flowed in from the field offices, the archivist realized some of it had never been put in the main case file and shared with defense lawyers. Not until Tuesday were McVeigh's lawyers notified--and even then FBI officials waited two more days to analyze the documents before telling Freeh; they were ashen as they left his office. He was, says one insider, "absolutely tear-ass." Bush and Ashcroft learned Thursday as well, and immediately after Ashcroft's Friday press...
That, of course, was McVeigh's goal all along, the one he and his fellows in arms were never going to achieve on the battlefields that stretched from Ruby Ridge to Waco to Oklahoma City: the crusade to turn citizens against a tyrannous government. Through mistakes, misjudgment and misconduct, the feds have, over time, done damage to themselves worse than any McVeigh could have inflicted in his poisonous revolutionary dreams. "This clearly nudges [the FBI] off its pedestal," says Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating...
...Friday there were more visitors than usual to the memorial at the site of the bombing in Oklahoma City. Ellen Bailey, 74, hoped that the extra time "might help convince McVeigh to say he's sorry." For his part, her son Larry is typical of many others: he opposes the death penalty but not this time. "I'm for it. I'm hoping it will give the victims closure." Beth Carpenter had worked in the building until the month before the bombing and lost scores of friends. She was distraught at the news of the delay. "He deserves...
...wasn't until March, after losing his final appeal, that McVeigh claimed sole responsibility for the Oklahoma City bombing. Before then his lawyers maintained that the government had withheld evidence showing that other unnamed suspects may have been responsible. Here's a crib sheet on the worst terrorist attack in American history...
...weeks before the trial's opening statements, the Justice Department released a report slamming the FBI forensics lab for sloppiness in gathering evidence, specifically citing the Oklahoma City case. Bureau whistleblower Frederick Whitehurst claimed that agents were routinely pressured to commit perjury in order to win convictions. But U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch allowed only six pages of the 517-page Justice report to be presented at trial. During McVeigh's subsequent appeals, his attorneys repeatedly claimed the government was withholding information helpful to McVeigh--allegations that, of course, the government denied...