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...McVeigh didn't deserve to die because we were all to blame. "Aren't we all in some way implicated in this crime?" defense attorney Richard Burr asked, arguing that Americans let tyranny reign during the bloody sieges at Waco and Ruby Ridge. "We all bear some responsibility for Oklahoma City," he said. "We should not feel a clear conscience if we kill Tim McVeigh." The tactic smacks of desperation, notes TIME's Adam Cohen. "Now they're just throwing everything they can at the wall to see what sticks. Ironically, this is a conservative twist on a very liberal...
Where was Timothy McVeigh on the morning of April 19, 1995? When Stephen Jones, the lead defense attorney in the Oklahoma City bombing case, said in his opening statement that he would prove his client "innocent," he in effect promised the jury he would answer that question. But when the defense rested last week--after calling only 25 witnesses in 3 1/2 days--he had not done so. That failure reflected Jones' fundamental dilemma: he could not offer a story about McVeigh that was an alternative to the one brilliantly told by the government. Of course, the defense...
...simply too insubstantial, and on three occasions, Matsch refused to let Jones introduce material the latter dearly hoped to present. Matsch allowed the jury to see only a small part of a Justice Department report that harshly criticized the fbi forensics lab, which did crucial work in the Oklahoma City case; he forbade Jones to try to show that a worldwide conspiracy may have been responsible for the bombing; and he barred testimony by a government informant named Carol Howe, who Jones also hoped would deflect guilt away from McVeigh and onto others...
...Elohim City, Okla., a redoubt of white supremacists, Howe became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. She made about 70 reports to her ATF contacts, which Howe's lawyer turned over to the defense. Sources say the reports discuss five men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah building. In an internal ATF memo written in April 1995 and obtained by Time, Howe told her supervisors that Elohim City leaders talked to her about blowing up federal buildings in Tulsa and Oklahoma City. If McVeigh is found guilty, Jones will probably appeal, targeting...
Competition is spreading off the interstates and onto state roads, where a federal law further deregulated trucking in 1995. Texas truckers were among the most protected. But now, for example, an operator from Oklahoma can poach on Texas locals' business. Bell says he has not tried to haul within his state "because we don't have a need." In other words, he's got all the competition he can handle on the interstate right...