Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 15:57:36 -0700
From: danda@DOITNOW.COM (Dennis)
Subject: FBI 'Finds' OKC Documents
To: AZRKBA@asu.edu
>Subject: FBI 'Finds' OKC Documents

>From: nealknox@nealknox.com (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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