Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:57:36 -0700
From: [email protected] (Dennis)
Subject: FBI 'Finds' OKC Documents
To: [email protected]
>Subject: FBI 'Finds' OKC Documents
>From: [email protected] (Neal Knox)
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>
> May 12 Neal Knox Update -- It is most unlikely that the FBI's
>release of 3,100 pages of documents, tapes and photos related to
>the Oklahoma City bombing will do more than delay Timothy McVeigh's
>execution -- probably well beyond the announced one month
>postponement. After all, he's now admitted that horrible crime.
>
> However, it could result in a wider investigation that goes
>far beyond FBI defenders' claims that sloppy record-keeping is the
>reason the Justice Department failed to comply with a Federal
>Judge's order.
>
> Michael Tigar, lawyer for convicted co-conspirator Terry
>Nichols, told a reporter "you bet your life I think it was
>deliberate."
>
> According to an article in the first version of today's
>Washington Post quite a bit of the material not given to McVeigh
>and Nichols' defense lawyers concerned the early hunt for "John Doe
>No. 2."
>
> According to some Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiratorialists,
>"John Doe No. 2" was a BATF undercover operative who was an active
>player in the bombing plan, which was to have been stopped at the
>last minute in a dazzling display of Federal law enforcement
>competence.
>
> But there supposedly was a glitch, and the bomb went off
>killing 168 innocents -- or, according to one version, 167
>innocents plus another conspirator supposedly planting secondary
>high explosives around internal pillars of the building.
>
> I haven't seen the slightest bit of evidence that would
>confirm such tales. But if it were even slightly true, you could
>bet the government would do everything they could to cover it up.
>
> What I do know is that the search for "John Doe No. 2"
>suddenly came to a screeching halt, and I know that Federal agents
>have engaged in other massive coverups.
>
> Consider that only last week one of the killers of those four
>little black girls in a Birmingham church three decades ago was
>convicted -- on the basis of information that the FBI didn't bother
>to share with earlier prosecutors. I'm still wondering why it
>wasn't shared. Could it have been that an FBI informant knew in
>advance, or was involved, in that bombing?
>
> (There was a time, I'm told, that half the people attending a
>KKK meeting were government informants.)
>
> I know that friend Dave Hardy has a new book detailing the
>four Freedom of Information Act lawsuits in which he forced FBI to
>cough up pertinent but hidden information on Waco.
>
> I know the BATF has never explained the miraculous failure of
>every one of their video and still cameras at the time of the
>initial raid -- which just might have shown who started the shooting.
>
> I know that friend Mike McNulty forced FBI to admit they had
>lied for six years about not using any pyrotechnics at Waco, after
>he got a peek at the remaining evidence. And I know that Bill
>Johnson, the assistant U.S. Attorney who let Mike look at that
>evidence, and warned AG Janet Reno that she wasn't being told the
>truth, was the only one the Justice Department prosecuted despite
>recommendations of the Texas Rangers.
>
> And I know that Special Counsel John Danforth took the FBI's
>word that standard M-16's were carried at Waco, when pictures of
>FBI HRT agents showed them with 14 1/2-inch carbine versions that
>produce far more muzzle flash.
>
> And I know that, unlike a judge faced with conflicting expert
>witnesses who allows a jury to hear both sides, Danforth chose to
>accept the word of only government experts that the stacatto
>flashes at Waco couldn't have been gunflashes.
>
> That mere handful of the many examples of FBI covering up the
>truth is more than enough to cast doubt on the FBI's "explanation"
>that the OKC bombing files weren't released only because of a
>screwup.
>
> And it's just one more example of why FBI Director Louis
>Freeh's replacement must not be someone with close ties to Federal
>law enforcement.
>
>------------------------
>
> The Senate is still wrangling over the Education bill.
>There's an agreement that it won't draw any gun amendments, but
>that agreement will hold only if the bill continues to go
>forward as at present -- with hundreds of amendments making it more
>what the Liberal Democrats want and less like Conservative
>Republicans want.
>
> Right now, even Ted Kennedy likes it, so the Dems are not
>going to weight it down with any gun sections -- with the
>possible exception of some "minor technical amendments" that Dianne
>Feinstein wants to the Gun Free Schools Act.
>
>------------------------
>
> The battle has begun over President Bush's appointments to
>Federal Appellate Courts. The Democrats have dropped the ancient
>facade that they wouldn't challenge court appointments on the
>grounds of ideology.
>
> The Dems' point man on court appointments, Sen. Charles
>Schumer, told lefty columnist E.J. Dionne that Democrats are united
>because they believe they're fighting "an actual overt attempt to
>make the judiciary more ideological."
>
> Could it be that the President is simply trying to correct the
>ideological imbalance on the courts?
>
>-----------------------
>
> Spanish-speaking immigrants are now the largest minority in
>the country, and we gunowners have made no visible effort to inform
>these new voters of their rights -- our rights -- under the Second
>Amendment.
>
> Last weekend, by coincidence at the same time President Bush
>was reading his radio address in Spanish, webmaster son Chris was
>posting the first of a series of brief articles in Spanish.
>
> The first is a Spanish translation of the Second Amendment
>essay that National Public Radio asked me to write and read in 1991
>as part of their bicentennial celebration of the Bill of Rights.
>It was translated by Jose M. Gomez del Castillio, a Phoenix
>attorney and gun rights activist.
>
> That brief essay touches on the basics of the Second
>Amendment: what Thomas Jefferson said about arms and free men, how
>the first Senate rejected an effort to reduce an individual right
>to "a collective right," and why it is a freedom insurance policy
>-- one which we pray will never have to be used to protect our
>homes, families and freedoms, but like a homeowners' insurance
>policy must not be canceled simply because we don't want our houses
>to burn.
>
> These principles are not taught in citizenship classes.
>
>----------------
>
> Next Friday, from 2-4 p.m., I'll be doing a live chat on
>Shooters.Com from the NRA Exhibit Hall floor in Kansas City. It
>will kick off our new closer relationship with the largest and one
>of the oldest internet firearms groups.
>
> To tune in, and ask questions -- which I hope you will in
>advance, so we don't have any "dead air time" -- go to
>www.shooters.com and register now. I hope we'll have an
>interesting session talking about what's going on in Washington and
>at the NRA convention, and we may even talk about the new guns.
>
> It will be my 35th consecutive annual meeting. I never miss
>an opportunity to see old friends.
>
>-----------------
>
> Speaking of NRA, I don't have the hard numbers yet but I'm
>told the two bylaws amendments Dr. Bill Davis and I sponsored went
>down by 5-1 margins -- about as we expected.
>
> But almost 20,000 voting members liked the idea of at least
>one director elected by and from their states, and prohibiting NRA
>contractors from funding NRA election campaigns. It would take 50-
>55,000 votes in most elections, so it's certainly winnable with some
>advertising and promotion.
>
> Also as expected, no one except officer-endorsed Nominating
>Committee-blessed candidates were elected to the board. Two N.C.-
>blessed directors weren't re-elected, David Coy and John Milius;
>they will exit with two non-N.C.-blessed Directors, Brian Johnson
>and David Jones.
>
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