TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, March 14, 2004

Associated Press 02-27-04:

Documents never introduced at McVeigh's trial showed FBI agents destroyed evidence and failed to share other information that raised the possibility that a gang of white supremacist bank robbers may have assisted McVeigh.

The evidence includes documents showing the Aryan Republican Army bank robbers possessed explosive blasting caps similar to those McVeigh stole and a driver's license with the name of a central player who was robbed in the Oklahoma City plot. . . .

The FBI agent who ran the investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said his team never got the chance to investigate the evidence and he called for the probe to be reopened.
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Peter Langan, one member of the ARA robbery gang, told AP he plans to testify at Nichols' trial that federal prosecutors several years ago offered and then withdrew a plea deal for information he had about the Oklahoma City bombing.

Langan said he plans to testify that at least three fellow gang members were in Oklahoma around the time of the bombing and one later told him that they had become involved.

Libertythink is archiving these documents, downloaded from the Associated Press' online Datacenter:


• Evidence log noting stolen Arkansas driver's license later used by bank robbers linked to McVeigh[pdf]
  
  
• Columbus, Ohio bomb disposal report, including ref. to blasting caps in possession of bank robbers like those used by McVeigh [pdf]
  
  
• FBI memo re phone call from former girlfriend/wife of one of the Aryan Republican Army (ARA) bank robbers linked to McVeigh and OKBOMB. [pdf]
  
  
• FBI teletype record on McVeigh's calls to Elohim City, where some of the bank robbers were staying just before the OKBOMB. [pdf]
  
  Associated Press Thursday, March 04, 2004:

  In a drama played out behind closed doors, senior FBI agents unsuccessfully sought permission in 2001 to interview Timothy McVeigh to resolve lingering questions about the case before the convicted Oklahoma City bomber was put to death, officials say . . . .
  
  The plan was scrapped
  [. . .]
  The interview debate was described by several current and former officials. They said it showed the government didn't know everything it wanted about McVeigh before he was put to death.
  
  The officials said the potential interview became a primary focus of the remaining McVeigh investigative team during the spring of 2001 and was the subject of a high-level meeting in Oklahoma City (search) in March of that year.
  
  The officials said the debate was documented in numerous FBI e-mails, and they were uncertain whether those e-mails should have been turned over to lawyers for the upcoming Oklahoma state murder trial of Terry Nichols

  Associated Press Mar. 10, 2004:

  McALESTER, Okla. - The eighth day of jury selection in Terry Nichols' state murder trial began Wednesday amid revelations that some prospective jurors said they would lie to be selected to possibly convict and sentence the bombing conspirator.
  
  [A] prospective juror said she overheard other possible panelists say they would say anything to get on the jury. The woman was retained on the panel.
  
  "I'll do whatever it takes to get up there," she paraphrased one of them as saying. "I'm going to say what I can to get on the jury. My decision is already made."
  
  She said she overheard three or four jurors make similar comments when more than 350 people summoned for jury duty in the case met for orientation Feb. 23.

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