-Caveat Lector-

Letter to the Editor

              by David Hoffman, Haight Ashbury Free Press

Two years after the Oklahoma City bombing, after legal battles that reached
the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a county grand jury was finally impaneled to
re-investigate this terrible crime. Twelve to fourteen people spent a year
and-a-half interviewing over 117 witnesses, including investigative
reporters such as myself, who stated that there were other conspirators
involved in this heinous crime (not just "John Doe 2").

They heard expert testimony that the building could not possibly have been
brought down by a fertilizer bomb parked in the street.

And they heard Carol Howe, one of the ATF's own paid informants, who had
infiltrated the white supremacist cell tied to Timothy McVeigh, state that
she gave the ATF advanced warning of the bombing (and she wasn't the only
one to do so, or to give the ATF and FBI the names of other conspirators).

And after all this -- after deliberating for 18 months and [supposedly]
reviewing a mountain of evidence, all the grand jury could see fit to do
was return one indictment -- against me!

These grand jurors must be -- unequivocally and without a doubt -- the
dumbest, stupidest, most narrow-minded people on the face of the earth. For
them to ignore all the evidence that was presented to them, and render the
decision that they did, is absolutely ludicrous. To fail to indict even one
single bombing suspect (and they had many to choose from) then, turn around
and indict a lowly reporter who was attempting to expose the truth, is
absolutely ludicrous.

It's insane.

Still this is hardly surprising. As punishment for his courageous,
civic-minded efforts, Representative Charles Key, who impaneled the grand
jury, found himself harassed by local authorities and criticized by local
newspapers. Even the judge who presided over the grand jury, Judge
Burkette, stated when the grand jury was first impaneled that "the grand
jury should rightfully indict Charles Key."

Obviously these are the people who have done the influencing. Bob Macy, the
same DA who originally opposed Rep. Key's effort to impanel the grand jury
(in several court battles), was subsequently put in charge of it!

Governor Frank Keating (a former FBI agent who personally infiltrated the
New Left under the FBI's infamous COINTELPRO, and was Assistant Treasury
Secretary under the Bush administration -- he oversaw the ATF when most of
the guns and drugs were moving back and forth between the U.S. and
Nicaragua), publicly stated that the people who impaneled this grand jury
were "off the reservation" and "howling at the moon," and belittled anyone
wishing to further investigate the case.

State Attorney General Drew Edmondson -- who dragged Rep. Key before a
multi-county grand jury to examine his bombing investigation fund-raising
efforts -- claimed that further investigation would prevent the victims of
the crime from experiencing a sense of "closure."

And finally, the "Justice" Department and FBI (Federal Bureau of
Intimidation), which coerced, manipulated, and intimidated many witnesses
into altering their testimony (and murdered at least one).

Obviously these are the people who influenced and coerced this grand jury
(and ultimately, the entire case). These are the people who tampered with
the legal process. These are the people who should be charged, or at the
very least, should resign their posts in shame, for obstructing justice and
lying to the American people.

Unfortunately this has become a political attack on me, because in fighting
for the truth, I have become a thorn in their side. I am the only reporter
to file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI, for the
surveillance tapes that would have captured all the suspects at the scene
of the crime. And I am the only reporter who has filed an Open Records Act
lawsuit against the Oklahoma County Sheriff's Department, for the Bomb
Squad's crime scene logs, which would show that military grade explosives
on the building's columns really brought that building down. (Assistant DA
Cassandra Williams stated during our deposition of the Sheriff: "The crime
scene logs cannot be located." Really?! For the largest crime in the
history of the Sheriff's Department?! Also, don't we have a slight conflict
of interest here folks? The DA who's supposed to be running an
investigation into the bombing, defending a law-enforcement agency who is
trying to *prevent* records from being discovered by a bombing
investigator??)

As for DA Bob Macy (Williams' boss), he has put 53 people on death row,
some of whom he knew to be innocent. As Ken Armstrong reported in the
Chicago Tribune exactly one week after my indictment: "Bob Macy has lied.
He has cheated. He has bullied. Even when a man's life is at stake, Macy
has spurned the rules of a fair trial, concealing evidence, misrepresenting
evidence, or launching into abusive, improper arguments that had nothing to
do with the evidence, according to appellate rulings condemning his
tactics." (Chicago Tribune, 1/10/99)

Now Macy is trying to prosecute an honest, civic-minded reporter for
speaking the truth-about a crime he was charged with investigating, but
failed to do so due to his personal corruption and cowardice. Instead of
using the grand jury to re-investigate the bombing as he was charged, Macy
used it as a political tool, to satisfy a personal vendetta against me (I
called Macy a "two-faced liar" and a "coward" on television), and to
further the cover-up of this heinous crime.

Hitler knew and utilized the maxim: "Repeat a lie often enough, and people
soon believe it's the truth." That's what happened here. You had a "man"
(actually a two-faced coward) like Bob Macy, who contested the implement of
the grand jury at every turn, suddenly put in charge of it?! This is a man
who's defending my Open Records Act lawsuit against the Sheriff's bomb
squad (for records of the other bombs pulled out of the building) at the
same time he's supposed to be investigating this very evidence that's being
covered up! Talk about conflict of interest!

In my book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror, I exposed
these people as the liars and cowards they are, and exposed the cover-up
that they were-and still are-perpetuating. My trial date is March 22.
Please make plans to attend this important trial.

__________________

The complete text of Hoffman's book, The Oklahoma City Bombing and the
Politics of Terror, can be read on-line for free at:
(www.webcom.com/haight)






Jamie

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