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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLS: L&J: OKC Questions (fwd)
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>
> THIRTY QUESTIONS ON OKLAHOMA CITY
>
> 1. If the bombing of the Alfred E. Murrah Federal building
>in Oklahoma City was a terrorist reprisal for the Federal massacre
>of the Branch Davidians at Waco, why were no BATF or FBI agents
>injured? Why was EVERY BADGE-CARRYING FEDERAL AGENT absent from
>work at nine o'clock on a weekday morning and their offices staffed
>only with civilian clerical workers?
>
> 2. When the word first got out that no Federal agents had
>been present in the building, the BATF produced its Resident Agent
>Alex McCauley who told a long story about his own heroism and that
>of a fellow ATF man who allegedly fell three floors in an elevator,
>walked away from it, and then helped rescue others trapped by the
>bomb. This was quickly exposed as a fabrication in an angry
>interview by building maintenance supervisor Duane James, who
>described McCauley's story as "pure fantasy". James examined the
>elevator in question and also the central control panel and pointed
>out a number of technical and logical reasons why the miraculous
>elevator incident simply couldn't have happened in the way claimed.
>The McCauley account was quietly retracted and flushed down the
>memory hole by the ATF, with the help of the media. They now admit
>that McCauley was nowhere near the building when the bomb went off,
>although they refuse to discuss his exact whereabouts or the
>whereabouts of any other ATF agent at the time of the explosion.
> Will BATF Agent Alex McCauley be disciplined for telling a
>self-serving lie which falsely made himself out to be a hero? If
>that was not the purpose, why did he make this palpably false
>public statement?
>
> 3. Why was U.S. Judge Wayne Alley, whose office was located
>in the Federal building, warned several weeks in advance in a
>Justice Department memo to be prepared for an unnamed "terrorist
>act" directed against the Federal building?
>
> 4. Judge Alley made the above admission to the Portland
>OREGONIAN immediately after the bombing. He has since refused to
>repeat it or allow himself to be interviewed again. Why?
>
> 5. Why did Ken Stern of the American Jewish Committee fax
>warnings to Federal judges and officials, legislators, and
>prosecutors warning of a possible attack on a government building
>of installation on the second anniversary of Waco on April 10th,
>1995, nine days before the OKC bombing?
>
> 6. "Norma", a witness who worked in an office building just
>down the street from the Federal building, told reporter Sherry
>Koonce what she saw prior to the explosion: "The day was fine,
>everything was normal when I arrived for work at about 7:45 A.M.
>There was some talk about the bomb squad among the employees at our
>office. We wondered what it was doing in our parking lot. Around
>nine I heard and felt a huge explosion. Then someone said it had to
>be a bomb, and we all knew. I remembered the bomb squad in our
>parking lot and knew what had happened."
> "Norma" has since quit her job, gone into hiding and
>refused to speak again to any reporters or investigators. So have
>a number of other people who saw the heavily armed and equipped
>bomb squad in the area up to three hours before the blast. Why?
>
> 7. Why has all mention of the facts outlined in questions
>1 thru 6 disappeared from the news media after the first week of
>coverage of the bombing? Why has the media consistently suppressed
>and refused to report any information or evidence which indicates
>that, at the very least and regardless of who was responsible,
>there was Federal foreknowledge that the bombing would take place?
>
> 8. By definition, a terrorist must take credit for his
>violence, or else there is no compelling reason to commit a crime.
>The specific purpose of terrorism is to gain a political end
>through the credible threat to commit future acts of violence. No
>one has claimed credit for the Oklahoma City bombing. Militia and
>right-wing groups, the alleged masterminds and presumed
>beneficiaries, have been particularly vehement in denouncing the
>explosion and in many cases have cooperated directly with Federal
>agencies to absolve themselves of any involvement. The only
>statement of alleged political motive we have comes from the very
>government which was attacked. Why is this?
>
> 9. Did the Alfred Murrah building warehouse documents
>relating to the attack on the Branch Davidians at Waco? If so,
>what happened to those documents? Were they destroyed? If so, were
>any copies kept elsewhere? If not, why not?
>
> 10. Will the missing papers, if any, affect former
>Attorney General Ramsey Clark's lawsuit against the ATF and FBI on
>behalf of the Branch Davidian survivors?
>
> 11. Why did the Director of the University of Oklahoma's
>Geological Survey, Dr. Charles Mankin, tell the media that
>according to two different seismographic records there were TWO
>blasts, the second approximately eight seconds after the first?
>
> 12. The news media initially reported two explosions, based
>on eyewitness testimony. Why did this version of events disappear
>from print and the air waves within twenty-four hours?
>
> 13. U.S. government Technical Manual No. 9-1910 from the
>Department of the Army and Air Force entitled MILITARY EXPLOSIVES,
>which specifies that ANFO, the acronym for Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel
>Oil bomb said to be used on the Murrah building, requires a greater
>than 99% purity of ammonium nitrate, as well as a specific dryness
>before it can be mixed with diesel fuel to create an explosive
>substance. The manual further spells out that even under ideal
>conditions (not often reached even by experts) 4,800 pounds of ANFO
>explosive would create a much smaller crater than the one left in
>front of the Murrah building, and its shock wave could not possibly
>wield the force necessary to compromise the building's concrete
>support. The FBI claims that the ANFO charge was made from 50 bags
>of fertilizer. Ammonium nitrate fertilizers comes in much weaker
>concentrations than the 99%-plus required for explosives. Creating
>concentrated amounts of ammonium nitrate is quite complex, and
>would require many bags of fertilizer. In short, according to
>the government's own textbook, the Oklahoma City bombing COULD NOT
>HAVE HAPPENED IN THE WAY THE FBI SAYS IT HAPPENED. IT IS A PHYSICAL,
>CHEMICAL, AND THERMODYNAMIC IMPOSSIBILITY. Why is the FBI lying?
>
> 14. Retired Air Force Brigadier General Benton K. Partin,
>former commander of the Air Force Armament Technology Laboratory,
>a 25-year expert in the design and development of bombs, urged
>Senators and Congressmen to delay the destruction of the Murrah
>building site. Partin stated in a news release, "When I first saw
>the picture of the truck bomb's asymmetrical damage to the Federal
>building in Oklahoma, my immediate reaction was that the pattern
>of damage would have been technically impossible without
>supplementary demolition charges at some of the reinforced concrete
>bases inside the building, a standard demolition technique. Partin
>further explained that "reinforced concrete targets in large
>buildings are hard targets to blast. I know of no way possible to
>reproduce the apparent building damage through simply a truck bomb
>effort."
>General Partin's request to have the bomb site preserved in order
>to examine the possibility of a second explosion was ignored by
>the government. Why?
>
> 15. General Partin's press release, quoted above, was
>reprinted in the John Birch Society magazine NEW AMERICAN. Based
>on this the news media launched an egregious and bogus smear
>campaign against General Benton K. Partin, claiming falsely that
>he was a member of the John Birch Society and therefore a "right-
>wing extremist". General Partin has been forced repeatedly to
>threaten lawsuits in order to force grudging and deliberately
>downplayed retractions and corrections of this allegation. His
>alleged JBS membership still appears in print and broadcast media
>today as fact even though the media are by now perfectly well
>aware that the allegation is false. Why are the news media telling
>a deliberate lie in order to discredit a highly respected expert
>who questions the official government version of Oklahoma City?
>
> 16. There have been repeated studies done by a variety of
>accredited explosives experts and professional demolition
>contractors, such as former FBI agent Ted Gunderson. All of these
>have stated their professional opinion that the destruction of the
>Murrah building could only have been accomplished with top-grade
>military explosives, detonators, and careful placement of multiple
>charges. Why have the media ignored these expert opinions? Why,
>indeed, have the media engaged in a concerted campaign to abuse,
>vilify, discredit and marginalize as a "crank" or a "right-wing
>extremist" any explosives expert or engineer who questions the
>official FBI version of the bomb's construction and explosive power?
>
> 17. There is not a single piece of concrete evidence to
>connect either Timothy McVeigh or Terry Nichols to any militia or
>right-wing group. Why has the news media refused to acknowledge
>this fact and continued to spread the patently false assertion
>that McVeigh was a member of a militia group?
>
> 18. Terry Nichols has been married twice, once to a
>Mexican woman and once to a Filipina. Obviously, a man who marries
>women of color not once but twice and has children with them can
>hardly be called a racist. Why has this fact, which clearly
>precludes any racist or neo-Nazi involvement in the bombing of the
>kind which is repeatedly implied by the media, not been given any
>significant exposure at all?
>
> 19. Having allegedly just committed a coldly calculated,
>carefully and meticulously planned mass murder, why did Timothy
>McVeigh then suddenly turn into a Clouseau-like klutz and do
>everything but send up a flare to draw attention to himself,
>speeding out of the state at almost 100 mph in a car without a
>license plate, virtually guaranteeing that he would be stopped?
>
> 20. Timothy McVeigh is a highly trained combat NCO who won
>a Bronze Star for courage under fire in the Gulf. Having been
>stopped by a state trooper, being armed with a pistol, knowing
>that he now faced either execution or imprisonment for the rest of
>his natural life, why did McVeigh make no move at all to defend
>himself or escape, but instead surrendered like a little lamb?
>
> 21. FBI agents are said to have tracked down McVeigh's
>truck rental agency by finding a vehicle identification number
>(VIN) on the truck's rear axle. This axle was found either in the
>bomb crater, according to the mayor of Oklahoma City's initial
>press statement, or three blocks away according to the later FBI
>version. Which statement is true?
>
> 22. There is another problem to the Ryder truck tale. No
>rear axle on any vehicle manufactured in America is imprinted with
>a VIN, even after recent legislation forcing manufacturers to place
>multiple VINS on the engine, firewall, and frame to discourage chop
>shops. When queried, a spokesman for Ryder told reporters than it
>does not imprint additional VINS on its trucks. The only conceivable
>number available on a rear axle is a part number, but a part number
>couldn't lead to the identification of a specific vehicle. We have
>here another case where the FBI version of events simply COULD NOT
>HAVE HAPPENED in the way the Bureau claims it happened. Where did
>the VIN story come from? Why has it been created and circulated by
>the media?
>
> 23. Did McVeigh use fake I.D. or his real I.D. to rent the
>truck? The FBI has told both stories.
>
> 24. The FBI detained and interrogated Timothy McVeigh's
>young sister Jennifer and Terry Nichols' twelve year-old son. They
>announced in the media that both of them were suspects and that
>Jennifer McVeigh was facing indictment and the death penalty. These
>charges disappeared from the media and both young people were
>released. What is the story here?
>
> 25. Who is John Doe Number Two? Does he exist at all? The
>FBI first conducted a nationwide manhunt for JD-2 over a period of
>several weeks. Then they claimed that a U.S. Army soldier on leave,
>whose published photographs bear no resemblance whatsoever to the
>photofits, was JD-2. Then they claimed for some months that JD-2
>does not exist and all the witnesses who saw him were mistaken. Now
>they are hedging again and say they have an "open mind" about
>whether John Doe Number Two exists. What is going on here?
>
> 26. In January of 1996 National Public Radio broadcast a
>half-hour special containing interviews with half a dozen witnesses
>who personally saw John Doe Number Two in the Ryder truck with
>Timothy McVeigh on the morning of the bombing. These witnesses all
>had one thing in common; other than a cursory preliminary interview
>by the FBI they had up until that time been approached by neither
>the prosecution nor the defense to appear as witnesses at the trial.
>Why not? Will any witnesses who saw John Doe Number Two be called to
>testify?
>
> 27. In the summer of 1995 a mysterious American named Daniel
>Spiegelman was arrested in the Netherlands for trafficking in stolen
>diamonds and antiques. In July of 1995 the Janet Reno Justice
>Department quietly applied for Spiegelman's extradition to the
>United States IN CONNECTION WITH THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING. This was
>accompanied by representations at the highest level demanding that
>the Netherlands courts hear the case in camera and that the
>proceedings be kept completely secret.
>Through his attorney Spiegelman fought extradition, a Dutch judge
>refused to impose secrecy on the hearing, the media got hold of it,
>and Janet Reno allegedly withdrew the extradition request, whereupon
>the entire bizarre episode vanished from public view. No more media
>blackout in the OKC case has been more complete than the blackout
>imposed over the name of Daniel Spiegelman; it is as if he has
>stepped off the face of the planet.
> Who is Daniel Spiegelman? What connection does he have with
>Oklahoma City? Is he John Doe Number Two? Does he know who John Doe
>Number Two is?
>
> 28. FBI informant and star witness Michael Fortier, who
>admits to trading his testimony for lenient sentencing on gun
>charges himself, claims that he and Timothy McVeigh scouted out the
>Murrah building several weeks in advance looking for the BATF
>offices therein. If that is true, why did Timothy NcVeigh stop the
>Ryder truck at a gas station on the morning of the bombing and ask
>directions to the building? And why did he park the truck on the
>side of the building the farthest away from the BATF offices, when
>there was an available parking lot which would have placed the truck
>bomb almost directly under the windows of the BATF even if it was
>seven stories up?
>
> 29. Why was the reaction of the Clinton administration,
>blaming right-wing radio talk shows for the incident and demanding
>the most draconian police state legislation ever proposed in the
>United States, so swift and obviously organized? The air of
>orchestration about the whole government response did not escape
>notice even at the time, in all the high emotionalism prevalent,
>and was commented on by a number of observers all across the
>political spectrum.
> A blizzard of OKC-related "domestic terrorism" bills were
>rushed into Congress in a matter of days, some of them pre-written
>and already printed up BEFORE THE BOMBING. These proposed laws
>cover everything from banning virtually all privately owned
>firearms to unlimited and court-admissible Federal wiretaps to
>censorship of the Internet to the suspension of habeas corpus in
>"terrorism" cases to the grotesque destruction of the First
>Amendment advocated in Charles Schumer's bill H.R. 2580, which
>imposes a five-year prison sentence for publicly engaging in
>"unseemly speculation" and publishing or transmitting by wire or
>electronic means "baseless conspiracy theories regarding the
>Federal government of the United States". Who decides what is a
>"baseless conspiracy theory'? Why, the very same government, of
>course.
> How exactly was a normally cumbersome, inefficient, and
>glacially slow legislative branch able to move so quickly, so
>comprehensively, and so efficiently in introducing these laws
>which will strip Americans of what remaining freedoms they have?
>
> 30. Why did it take so unconscionably long for the trial
>of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols to begin?
>
>
>
>- Monte
>
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