------ Forwarded Message > From: "dasg...@aol.com" <dasg...@aol.com> > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:01:00 EDT > To: Robert Millegan <ramille...@aol.com> > Cc: <ema...@aol.com>, <j...@aol.com>, <jim6...@cwnet.com>, <l...@legitgov.org> > Subject: Government Tampered with Oklahoma City Bombing Evidence >
> Attorney: Long-secret security tapes of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing appear > edited > TIM TALLEY > AP News > > Sep 27, 2009 15:26 EST > > http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/09/attorney-oklahoma-bombing-tapes-appear-to-be- > edited/ > > > > Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 > bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before > the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the > recordings said Sunday. > > > "The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City > attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of > Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the > April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. > > > Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted > them online and provided copies to The Associated Press. > > > > The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras [which several > different] companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. > Murrah Federal Building. They are [all] blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when > a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in > front of the building, Trentadue said. > > > > "Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same > time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a > coincidence," Trentadue said. > > > > He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the > minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tape was > being replaced." > > > > "The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02," he said. "The > absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is > something there that the FBI doesn't want anybody to see." > > > > A spokesman for the FBI in Oklahoma City, Gary Johnson, declined to comment > and referred inquiries about the tapes to FBI officials in Washington, who > were not immediately available for comment Sunday. > > > > The soundless recordings show people rushing from nearby buildings after the > bomb went off. Some show people fleeing through corridors cluttered with > debris. None show the actual explosion that ripped through the federal > building. > > > > FBI agents did not report finding any security tapes from the federal building > itself. > > > > The FBI in the past refused to release the security camera recordings, leading > Trentadue and others to contend the government was hiding evidence that others > were involved in the attack. > > > > "It's taken a lawsuit and years to get the tapes," Trentadue said. > > > > He received the latest batch of tapes over the summer in response to an April > request for video from security cameras in 11 different locations. Nothing on > the tapes was unexpected. > > > > "The more important thing they show is what they don't show," Trentadue said. > "These cameras would have shown the various roads and approaches to the Murrah > Building." > > > > Trentadue began looking into the bombing after his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, > died at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center in August 1995. Kenneth > Trentadue was a convicted bank robber who was held at the federal prison after > being picked up as a parole violator at his home in San Diego in June 1995. > > > > He was never a bombing suspect, but Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mistook his > brother for one and beat him to death during an interrogation. The official > cause of Kenneth Trentadue's death is listed as suicide, but his body had 41 > wounds and bruises that Jesse Trentadue believes could have come only from a > beating. > > A judge in 2001 awarded Kenneth Trentadue's family $1.1 million for extreme > emotional distress in the government's handling of his death. > > > > Jesse Trentadue said he has received about 30 security tapes, including some > images that were used as evidence at bomber Timothy McVeigh's trial. McVeigh > was convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges and executed in 2001. > Coconspirator Terry Nichols is serving life in prison on federal and state > bombing convictions. > > > > Trentadue said he is seeking more tapes along with a variety of > bombing-related documents from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA request by > Trentadue for 26 CIA documents was rejected in June. > > > > A letter from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the > documents, said their release "could cause grave damage to our national > security." > > > > Trentadue said he gave the latest set of tapes to The Oklahoman because of > their historical value. The newspaper has agreed to provide copies to the > Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. > > > ------ End of Forwarded Message
