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The Bomb that gave Clinton victory
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
London Telegraph. Nov. 10, 1996
Relaxing on Air Force One after the election, Bill Clinton told
reporters it was the Oklahoma bombing that proved the turning-point
in his political fortunes.
It was the moment when the militias, the Christian Right and the
Gingrich onslaught against government, all melded together in the
public mind as one rampant movement of extremism. "It broke a
spell in the country as the people began searching for our common
ground again," said Clinton.
I was struck by the observation, because I have long believed that
the Oklahoma bombing was the spring-board for the remarkable
come-back of Clinton.
The truck bomb that blew up the Murrah Federal building on April
19, 1995, killing 168 people, was a traumatic event. Had it been
carried out by foreign radicals, the information impact on the
national psyche would have been far less. But this was a
home-grown conspiracy. Americans were committing mass murder
against other Americans. A class full of infants in a day-care
center massacred in cold blood -- by Americans.
Clinton seized the moment. He blamed Right-wing radio talk shows
for sowing distrust of government institutions and for creating a
climate of "hate" that fostered recourse to violence. He did not
name the Republicans as co-conspirators; he did not have to.
The US media made the connection for him.
Tim McVeigh was the military expression of the Gingrich agenda,
opined the commentators. Republicans had failed to understand that
rhetoric has consequences, and now look what had happened.
A few Republicans dared to reply that it was the deployment of
tanks and CS gas by a militarized FBI against women and children in
Waco that had set off the deadly spiral. But most of them were too
intimidated, or horrified, to articulate a defense.
It worked like magic for Clinton. With control over the Justice
Department and the FBI -- which he has politicized to an
extraordinary degree -- he has been able to shape perception of
the bombing.
But what if the government has suppressed the full truth? What
if the most important investigation in modern history has been
compromised to ensure the re-election of the President?
These are not idle questions. A family that lost two children in
the day-care center has accused the Justice Department of a
cover-up. After conducting their own private investigation for
the past 18 months Glenn and Cathy Wilburn have amassed evidence
suggesting that the government had prior knowledge of the bombing
-- and negligently failed to stop it...
The Wilburns, and their daughter Eyde Smith, have now taken their
case to the Oklahoma courts. In a civil lawsuit they have named
two men -- Michael Brescia and a former German army officer,
Andreas Strassmeir -- as alleged accomplices of McVeigh. They have
accused the Justice Department of failing to pursue all the
conspirators because one or more of them were federal informants
who had penetrated the bombing ring.
Fortunately for Clinton this story did not break in the mainstream
media before the election. But it has been percolating gradually
for several months. A number of newspapers in Oklahoma, Kansas,
and Tennessee have reported the Wilburn allegations... The Justice
Department has immense power, of course...
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