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Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 10 Num. 62
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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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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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excerpts; due to press of time I may include more info in a
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subsequent issue of Conspiracy Nation.
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+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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TOM VALENTINE:
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It seems to me, John, that you're making the most important point
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(that a lawyer would make)...
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JOHN DeCAMP:
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The point is very simple, Tom... Here's the *most* important
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thing, in my opinion. If there is a conspiracy, it doesn't end
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with the government. (I know that's pretty serious talk.) Think
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about it: every single step of the way, the *one* thing
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prevented from examination is anything that would establish
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conclusively *what* the nature of that bomb was.
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Remember, I was ready to file, on behalf of the victims, the
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motion that would keep the [Murrah] Building standing [after the
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April 19th blast(s).] I had the world's best bomb expert, the
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Kennedy Company (that had investigated the World Trade Center
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bombing, etc.) ready to go in. And McVeigh's attorneys, Mr.
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Jones and Company, were the ones that came to me and begged me
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not to do anything -- *they* wanted to do it. I turned my bomb
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expert (Kennedy and Company) over to them. I backed out; I let
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them go ahead and, supposedly, file. What did they do? They let
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the building come down almost immediately.
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It was the single most important piece of evidence. The
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single most important piece of evidence *was*, *is*, should be,
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WHAT ACTUALLY CAUSED THE DESTRUCTION. The one thing that
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everybody, from the defense on, seemed to prevent was an
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examination of the [bombing(s)] site and what caused the damage.
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So something is fishy, *but* *it* *doesn't* *end* *with* *the*
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*government*.
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TOM VALENTINE:
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The OKC jury didn't get a lot of info in the first place; an
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awful lot of info was held back. And it was relevant.
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PAT BRILEY:
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The jury does not have a complete set of facts, in order to make
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their decision. A lot of facts were omitted by both the defense
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and the prosecution.
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The Truth does not cease to exist just because people choose
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to ignore it.
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Judge Matsch took the following steps to prevent evidence
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being presented in this trial:
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** Prevented Carol Howe (an ATF informant) from testifying.
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Considered her testimony to be irrelevant. Even amongst
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the anti-McVeigh stalwarts in OKC, this caused a storm of
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protest; they consider Howe to be extremely relevant to
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possible other "John Doe's" or conspirators. Poll taken
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via radio in OKC: 80 percent considered the judge's
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decision extremely wrong. Court TV and also Alan
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Dershowitz and Gerry Spence have commented on this
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performance by Judge Matsch and considered it very poor;
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characterized the judge's behavior as capricious.
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** No evidence related to any Middle Eastern connection
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could be presented at the trial.
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** Justice Department report on FBI crime lab not
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admissable as evidence. One or two pages were allowed, but
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not the entire report. Bad precedent, because a number of
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cases have already been re-opened where the report was an
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essential element in re-opening cases and was delivered as
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evidence.
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** Writ of Mandamus filed by Jones. Jones outlines
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evidence he has found. Writ filed 3/25/97; cost of
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investigations behind the document estimated at $1 million
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or more. Included Jones' investigatory work; people sent
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overseas as well as throughout U.S. to come up with leads
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-- e.g. government foreknowledge of bombing(s), other
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conspirators, etc. Writ requests 10th Circuit to order
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federal government to make available for evidence in the
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trial certain government documents bearing on the case.
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Writ not a "fishing expedition"; Jones shows that
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government did have foreknowledge and did have knowledge of
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other conspirators in this case that they had not
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adequately pursued. 10th Circuit chose to reject the
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appeal summarily and gave no reason for its decision.
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The national news media and other news media have copies of the
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Writ -- I made sure that they all got copies. They have chosen
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*not* to report this, *not* to discuss the contents. And yet it
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is a public document; it's a legitimate document for the defense
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team. And I daresay Mr. Jones would get in a lot of trouble for
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putting knowingly false statements in there. And yet the press
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chose *not* to put before the American people a long document
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filed in public court. It's at best a matter of extreme laziness
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or incompetence on their part, and at the worst, a conspiracy of
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silence.
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And the press's coverage of the *details* of the trial has
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been abominable. Worse than abominable. In this case, they
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*don't* *report* most of the details; and when they do, they
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mis-characterize it.
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I have a number of friends, by the way, in journalism, who
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I've talked to about this. And they are shaking their heads as
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well.
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There's something terribly wrong here. If we're relying on
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our "wonderful" FBI and our "wonderful" press to protect us from
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terrorism by presenting the truth, we're in trouble.
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