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...part to counter defense arguments that the government chose McVeigh and Nichols as scapegoats without exhausting the possibility of finding a broader conspiracy--a contention that McVeigh's lawyer, Stephen Jones, is already pressing. The government is continuing to look for possible accomplices, but, said Attorney General Janet Reno, "most of these leads have been pursued and exhausted." Investigators generally think that if any additional plotters do turn up, there will be only a few and they will prove to be mere "facilitators." In particular, some investigators have come to doubt that the far-famed John Doe No. 2 actually...
Fortier's role in the eventual trial or trials is another large question mark. Press accounts have touted him as the prosecution's "star witness," but he could also be a risky one, since the defense may allege that he is lying to save his skin. Reno and lead prosecutor Joseph Hartzler insist that Fortier was indicted on every count on which they had enough evidence to convict. He could get a maximum sentence of 23 years, though that might be reduced because of his cooperation...
...suspect himself added to the excitement, balking at the interview at the last minute because he did not want family members answering questions about him. Jones' associate, Robert Nigh Jr., hurried to the El Reno prison near Oklahoma City and persuaded Tim McVeigh to let Cole proceed. McVeigh may have relented, in part, because he trusted the correspondent's work; he had answered a set of written questions from Cole the week before that resulted in an exclusive TIME interview...
...this week--and a trial that could send him to his death, Timothy McVeigh leads a cramped and isolated life. The suspected bomber of the Oklahoma City federal building rises at 6:30 a.m. in his 8-ft. by 12-ft. cell in the Federal Correctional Institute in El Reno, Oklahoma, showers, dons an orange jump suit. Then, as he told TIME in answers to written questions, he has nothing to do but read (newspapers, a biography of Patrick Henry) and slam a racquetball against the wall...
Amid continued partisan sniping, the House hearings on the 1993 federal assault against the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended with a whimper, having unearthed few new facts and having elicited no major revelations. Attorney General Janet Reno firmly stood her ground and again defended her decision to go ahead with the tear-gas assault on the complex. "We all mourn the tragic outcome," she testified, "but the finger of blame points in one direction. It points directly at [sect leader] David Koresh...