-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 DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. 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