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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 63
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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UNVARNISHED UPDATE ON OKC BOMBING(S) TRIAL
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John DeCamp, Pat Briley, and Tom Valentine Give a
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Non-Corporate Analysis -- Surprise, Surprise: Corporate
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"News" Media Has Manipulated Its Coverage of Trial
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PART 2 OF 2
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Guests on Tom Valentine's *Radio Free America* (shortwave 5.745
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MHz, Sundays, approx. 9-12 pm EST) program on June 1, 1997 were
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attorney John DeCamp and Pat Briley, specialist on what really
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happened in Oklahoma City on 4/19/95 and its aftermath. Here are
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further excerpts; see CN 10.62 for part 1 of this report (archive
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info below.)
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Note on format: indented portions are direct quotes from the
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speakers, all else is my own summary of their remarks.
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PAT BRILEY: Let me discuss a little bit about what *did*
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come up in the trial: what the government did *not* prove,
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and what they *did* prove, in my opinion.
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In my opinion, the government did *not* prove that the
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[alleged] truck bomb was even *made* with ammonium nitrate
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fuel, or even nitro-methane. There was no [residue] found
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at the scene of fuel oil or nitro-methane, and only *one*,
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possible, instance of ammonium nitrate.
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TOM VALENTINE: I have a commercial for that videotape that
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you know all about: there's no crater! The very first
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day, all the television cameras were flying around in
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helicopters, looking down: there's no crater.
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Valentine mentioned throughout the broadcast a videotape, "The
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Cover Up Of Oklahoma City." Reportedly the video is founded on
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mainstream media TV footage taken the day of the blast(s), in
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which it is plainly seen that no crater is present in front of
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the demolished Murrah Building. The video is said to contrast
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what was said by mainstream "news" reports that day with "all the
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Orwellian gobbledy-gook we're hearing now." Says Valentine,
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"Watch that video, then tell me: where's the crater? The big
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crater that should have been there there." [Call 1-800-522-6292
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to order. Cost is reportedly $15, including shipping and
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handling. Note that I pass this item on for informational
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purposes only, and receive no compensation for doing so. *Caveat
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emptor.*]
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PAT BRILEY: I'm gonna tease you, Tom. There *is* a crater,
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but it appears later. And it's one that the back-hoe dug
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to get to the water main.
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TOM VALENTINE: [Laughs] Okay. The back-hoe...
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PAT BRILEY: There is a hole there later; I know your point.
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The government said that it was going to prove that the
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bomb was made of ammonium nitrate, nitro-methane, and that
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McVeigh had purchased these materials, etc. They did *not*
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prove that whatsoever.
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The defense did a pretty good job, in its closing
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arguments, of discrediting the Fortiers, in my opinion.
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No eyewitnesses of McVeigh being seen in Oklahoma City
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were presented by the government. And yet, we're aware of
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about 10 eyewitnesses that have *been* interviewed by the
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FBI, that we have interviewed, that saw McVeigh the day of
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the bombing *with* another "John Doe."
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TOM VALENTINE: Which is very, very suspicious.
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PAT BRILEY: Yes. That seems to be the problem with the
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government's case. We can trace back through how they'll
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talk about how they saw McVeigh *before* the bombing. But
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when they present those witnesses, they leave out the fact
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that these same witnesses *also* had McVeigh with a "John
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Doe." And the thing that upsets me about this is, justice
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is not served.
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TOM VALENTINE: Stephen Jones called that one witness (who
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didn't turn out to be too good)...
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PAT BRILEY: I think it turned out to be pretty good for
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him, actually.
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A number of the FBI went above and beyond the call of
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duty to browbeat, coerce [witnesses]. Number one was to
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force witnesses to change their story. And when they
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wouldn't, they falsified their reports!
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And so now you have the FBI behaving like this, and then
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the prosecution leaves it all out. Was the FBI misleading
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the prosecution and they're just lying about it? Or what?
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I don't know. But the bottom line: people here in
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Oklahoma City believe there's other "John Does." And it
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*is* relevant to this case to have it introduced into
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evidence. And the judge blocked any evidence relative to
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"John Doe," or any Middle Eastern connection.
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So you've got a cover-up by the prosecution, a cover-up
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by the judge, and of course the defense doesn't want to
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bring this up for fear of implicating their client. So the
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jury doesn't hear the truth.
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TOM VALENTINE: This thing stinks to high heaven.
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PAT BRILEY: It's bad to hurt a guilty man on extremely
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poor evidence (because it sets a bad precedent.) And it's
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also bad to let a guilty man go free because the evidence
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was so incomplete or corrupt. I don't know how this jury
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is going to deliberate.
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The evidence that the government *did* put on is
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extraordinarily faulty, and the press did a very poor job
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in reporting this. They did *not*, in fact, prove that
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McVeigh purchased nitro-methane. They tried, they failed,
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and the witnesses contradicted themselves badly. That fell
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apart, and the government did not even bring it up in their
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closing arguments because it just didn't work.
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Let me go on to another one. You would think that, if
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you use ammonium nitrate, there *should* be some left over.
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The government admits that they didn't find any [residue.]
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It rained later, and that could have washed it away. But
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*inside* the building it would have been protected. No
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ammonium nitrate frill(?) whatsoever. And yet the
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government contends, "Well, they must have used ammonium
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nitrate because Terry Nichols purchased a lot of ammonium
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nitrate."
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We have, of all the truck parts that were analyzed (and
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there were scores of truck parts brought before the court;
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they made a big show of this), they found only one, very
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small truck part, with ammonium nitrate crystals. But no
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one will tell you the history of this, and it makes the
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government look very bad. This truck part, so-called
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"Q-507": the FBI crime lab found a very small,
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re-crystallized portion of ammonium nitrate on this truck
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part. They claim that it survived the rain, survived the
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wet, and that it was embedded there by the blast. They
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*claimed* that they had found it, and yet under
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cross-examination were forced to [retract.] They stated
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that a citizen brought it to them and they had no idea
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where it came from. Then, when their own prosecution
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expert, Linda Jones, the bomb expert from England, wanted
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to look at Q-507, it wasn't available because it had
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"disappeared." And when the defense asked for Q-507, it
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wasn't available because it had "disappeared" too.
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When they finally tested Q-507, there was no magnesium
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anywhere.
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So they didn't prove it. That's just one example. In
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fact, they got caught in a couple of lies about the chain
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of custody.
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-+- The Shirt -+-
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The shirt (Tim McVeigh's supposedly contaminated T-shirt): Only
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trace amounts of explosives powders. They claim they found PETN
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and nitro-glycerine. The problem is, they acknowledged that
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McVeigh was wearing a holster that was in contact with his shirt.
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FBI crime lab witness forced by defense into admitting that he
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himself had tested *his* shirt when he had been at a firing range
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with a shoulder holster, and *he* had found nitro-glycerine and
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PETN on *his* clothes as well -- because it comes from primer
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used in bullets. You get it on your hands. You get it on your
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earplugs. You get it on your clothes.
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Also, PETN is mimicked perfectly by the plastic that earplugs
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are made from.
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No ammonium nitrate was found on the carpet of McVeigh's car.
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No ammonium nitrate was found on his fingernails. No ammonium
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nitrate was found anywhere.
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TOM VALENTINE: This trial was about bombing, and nobody in
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the entire trial discussed the bomb! Obviously, McVeigh
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was given a job to drive a truck up there, to be a cover.
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[CN: "Lee Harvey" McVeigh; like Lee Harvey Oswald was
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pre-positioned in the Dallas Book Depository building.]
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-+- The Key -+-
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The key: The press didn't report the truth about what happened
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on that. Under cross-examination, the gentleman who builds the
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locks and the keys for that particular truck re-constructed the
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lock-set for that particular key and they both fit. And the
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press reported, "Ah-hah. That proves it." Well, no it didn't.
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Because when they put the key in the lock, it didn't turn the
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tumblers. Not only that, but it fit 3 or 4 other makes of cars.
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JOHN DeCAMP: For almost an hour, the discussion has
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centered on the one issue: What *was* the nature of the
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bomb? If you will go back and read the Writ of Mandamus,
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you'll find the *one* issue that Mr. McVeigh's attorney
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avoided dealing with was the nature of the bomb. What was
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the one thing that the government never had to prove at
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that trial that they would have been hard-pressed to prove?
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What kind of a bomb it was. What was the one thing that
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Mr. McVeigh's attorney never dealt with or brought any
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witnesses, whether it was a General Ben Partin or others?
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The nature of the bomb.
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