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Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 11:01 PM
To throw a little light on this "missing files" business, gentle
readers,
let me share with you some of the text of a memo inside a certain
FBI "302".
The memo was written in mid-may, 1995, less then one month after the
OKC
bombing. And this is what the memo said:
"IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THE OKLAHOMA COMMAND POST HAS DIRECTED ALL
OFFICES
TO HOLD UNSUB#2 LEADS IN ABEYANCE, SAN FRANCISCO WILL CONDUCT NO
FURTHER
INVESTIGATION REGARDING THIS LEAD."
Now "Unsub#2" means "Unidentified Subject #2" aka "John Doe #2".
"Unsub #1"
(aka John Doe #1), was presumed to be McVeigh (in fact the Feds
later
insisted upon it), but was actually ARA member Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy,
long-time readers of the old JDT may recall, was the former
Philadelphian
who was so brain-fried by previous dope use that he once told the
FBI, "I
can't remember when I quit remembering things." In this, he may be
related
to the ridiculous government lawyer quoted below in re the "lost
documents":
"You never know what you don't know."
John Doe #2, as readers will remember, was and is Michael Brescia,
former
Philadelphia choirboy who impressed Dennis Mahon as "the scariest
guy I ever
met in the Movement". ("Movement" in this case does not refer to
bowel
movement, but rather to the racist terrorist movement, although
philosophically the two are strikingly similar.) Brescia, as
reported in
the last NJDT, is now free and walking the streets. One rumor
picked up by
a previously-reliable law enforcement-linked source has Brescia
spotted at a
certain european airport not too long ago, but as old JDT readers
known, the
Feds have previously floated such rumors (which later turned out to
be
disinformation) about the John Doe rats in order to distract the
John Doe
cats (which is us.)
Now if the Feds didn't collect these documents regarding JD#2 and
pass them
on both to the OKBOMB taskforce in OKC and the defense teams of
Nichols and
McVeigh it is because THEY WERE DIRECTED NOT TO. What we really
need to see
is the cable that went out from the OKBOMB task force that the memo
refers
to. Whose name was on it? Who ordered it sent? If the Senators
who are
interested in getting to the bottom of this are truly serious
perhaps they
will start there.
Long-time readers of the JDT will recall what happens when the
Bureau/Justice Department is getting ready to hang one of their own
out to
dry in the interest of bureaucratic longevity, and will recognize
the type
of story represented by the NYT piece below.
Danny Defenbaugh (nicknames previously garnered Defenbaugh in the
JDT
include "Danny Deafanddumb" and "Danny Defecate") is the guy who
once denied
to a reporter that Michael Brescia was John Doe #2 because (unlike
JD#2) he
had red hair and no tattoos. Of course Brescia has both dark brown
to black
hair and a white power tattoo just like the rental truck company
employees
reported, but since the reporter hadn't been reading the John Doe
Times,
Defenbaugh got away with the lie. Defenbaugh has been in the middle
of this
cover-up since he came to OKBOMB shortly after it started. If we
are
guessing correctly from the tone of the NYT piece, it has now been
decided
to hang Defenbaugh out to dry.
The FBI it seems is about to have a remake of "LA Confidential"
starring
Danny as the crooked police chief of detectives Dudley Smith. What
remains
to be seen is which Fibbie will get the Oscar for reprising the role
of
straight-arrow Ed Exley. Who will be the guy who "saves the
bureau", cleans
house and goes on to lead "the NEW FBI"?
The next week will tell. Expect leaks from the "document dump" that
detail
302s filled with little old ladies seeing John Doe #2 with Elvis and
reporting flying saucer-borne little gray men planting satchel
charges at
the Murrah Building. Defenbaugh will have made sure that plenty of
chaff is
in those boxes. The question is: is there any wheat? If the
Senators who
investigate will ask the right questions of the right people, and
seek out
the documents we already know exist (like the aforementioned SF 302
and the
cable that sparked it, then we may yet get to the truth about the
OKC
bombing, whether it's in THOSE particular boxes or not.
Let us pray that it will be so. Let us work to make it happen.
You've got
a telephone. You've got a bit of the truth. You know who can get
the rest.
Make it happen.
, Editor.
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Posted May 11th, 2001 12:30 PM
villagevoice.com exclusive
FBI Documents Raise Questions of Wider Conspiracy, Feds' Forewarning
McVeigh Papers: What Did the Government Know?
by James Ridgeway
WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 11-The FBI's announcement yesterday that it
withheld
files from Tim McVeigh's defense lawyers raises once again not only
the
prospect of a wider conspiracy, but questions about whether the
government
itself was trying to cover up events leading to the the Oklahoma
City
bombing.
Even as Department of Justice officials moved Friday to delay for 30
days
McVeigh's execution, which had been scheduled for May 16, some are
asking if
the feds stashed the documents in hopes of concealing what they knew
beforehand about plans to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in
1995.
The feds say this is nonsense, the result of conspiracy-mongering by
people
in places like the John Birch Society, which played a major role in
developing theories of a wider plot. The idea of a conspiracy may
seem
silly, especially to members of the mainstream press, but as with
whispers
about the grassy knoll in the Kennedy assassination, rumors of
intrique have
persisted in this case. They now fuel the early stages of a massive
damage
suit by families of the victims against the federal government.
Last night's release of the FBI documents was accompanied by reports
that
McVeigh actually was part of a bank robbery gang called the Aryan Re
publican
Army, a white supremacist outfit that allegedly pulled more jobs
across the
Midwest than Jesse James ever dreamed of. And according to the lore
surrounding this gang, they used the loot to help finance a far
right
revolution. The gang was modeled along the lines of the Order, a
1980s
underground terror group that robbed stores and armored cars in the
West to
get the money to boost the same revolution. Participants in both
gangs had
ties to the Aryan Nations.
For years now, defense attorneys and independent investigators have
claimed
that the government had prior knowledge of the conspiracy. Carol
Howe, a
onetime ATF informant, testified that she had personally infiltrated
a group
of racists living in Elohim City, an eastern Oklahoma religious
community,
and had accompanied several men as they cased the federal building.
At the same time, a closing witness in the Terry Nichols trial
claimed he
had unexpectedly come upon a group of men and trucks-including the
famous
Ryder truck used in the blast-and fertilizer bags when he drove his
handicapped son down to Geary Lake Kansas. It was here, according to
the
prosecution, that McVeigh and Nichols made the bomb. The government
successfully argued there were three main defendants: McVeigh,
Nichols, and
Michael Fortier.
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NJDT: How "successfully" is a matter of some argument, since the
Feds
didn't get the death penalty or the convictions they wanted and the
jury
forewoman told them off in the press about "others unknown."
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With the McVeigh execution approaching-he is scheduled to be killed
May
16-there has been an upsurge in speculation and rumors about who
else may
have been involved. Some of this talk apparently originates with
inmates who
grew to know McVeigh in different jails and who claim he told them
what went
down.
Speculation has also been fueled by other events. Chief among them
was the
arrest of members of the Aryan Republican Army. Some army members
had ties
to the Aryan Nations and the Posse Comitatus. And they frequented
Elohim
City. All during the bomb investigation, Elohim City turned up as a
sort of
hideout in one story after another. Pastor Robert Millar, who heads
the
community, long has insisted this is rubbish and that he has nothing
whatever to do with the bombing. Indeed, just to show how willing he
has
been to cooperate with the government, Millar reportedly invited the
region's chief FBI agent to sing in the choir.
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NJDT: And even more remarkably, the SAC, Thomas Kukor, actually
accepted and
went out to this racist dungheap and SANG with his compadres in the
OKC
coverup. After I pointed this out in the John Doe Times, Kukor sent
two
Fubbies down to Idabel to lean on the McCurtain Gazette. What
thugs! I
called Kukor to ask him if he had a problem. He wouldn't take my
call until
I offered to his secretary to call back in the morning by routing my
call
through the DOJs Office of Professional Responsibility in DC. Kukor
instantly called me back and just as quickly backed down. Of
course,
Pastor Millar began SINGING to the FBI a long while back. After
all,
remember what the FBI told the ATF in February of '95 when the
Batfags
wanted to bust Andreas Strassmeir and Elohim City: "Keep your hands
off EC,
it's OUR operation."
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Richard Guthrie, the leader of the Aryan Republican Army, hung
himself in
jail in 1996, shortly after he told the Los Angeles Times that he
was
writing a book about his gang that would blow the lid off a wider
conspiracy. In a sealed plea bargain agreement, he promised to
provide the
government with information about groups "whose goal is the
overthrow of the
U.S. government or (to) engage in domestic terrorism." This
supposedly was
an allusion to the Oklahoma City bombing. Currently, other members
of the
gang-all in jail-are rumored to be claiming that a certain "Tim" was
in
contact with their group.
The FBI's belated disclosure comes at a time when Louis Freeh is
stepping
down as head of the FBI, and after both Clinton and Reno have left
office.
While the FBI says the papers are insignificant, press reports claim
they
involved the government's questioning of witnesses about a John Doe
No. 2,
an unknown person the government originally thought was involved in
the
plot. These documents may not help McVeigh, but they almost surely
will
affect Terry Nichols's case, perhaps even leading to a new trial.
Nichols is
in jail for life on federal offenses and is awaiting prosecution in
Oklahoma
that could end with a death sentence.
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NEW YORK TIMES, 12 May 2001
What Happened to the McVeigh Evidence?
By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID JOHNSTON
WASHINGTON, May 12 - The discovery of thousands of pages of
undisclosed evidence in the Timothy J. McVeigh case had its origins
in the closing days of last year, in what one law enforcement
official this weekend described as a routine effort to "have a
final cleanup."
By this week, senior officials say, they had realized for the
first time that there were 3,135 pages connected with "OKBOMB," as
the Oklahoma City bombing case was known to insiders, that had
never been turned over to Mr. McVeigh's lawyers.
As a result of that discovery, the execution of Mr. McVeigh,
scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed until at least June 11 by
Attorney General John Ashcroft. Mr. Ashcroft and the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, reeling from the embarrassment of the serious
mishandling of the largest domestic antiterrorism case in the
nation's history, were scrambling to figure out what happened.
Senior law enforcement officials in the Bush administration,
giving their version of what they have been able to reconstruct so
far, say there is no evidence that the documents were deliberately
withheld by anyone. That conclusion has not, however, been tested
by lawyers for Mr. McVeigh, who have yet to examine the documents
and give their view of the significance of the discovery.
The officials said in interviews that in late December an unsigned
message was sent from F.B.I. headquarters in Washington to the
bureau's 56 field offices, instructing them to "clear the books."
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NJDT: An "unsigned" message? Who sent it, and why? "Clear the
books"?
Awfully vague language. What did the letter say? Who sent it? Who
ordered
it sent?
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The message asked officials to send in to headquarters any items in
the files related to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Daniel Defenbaugh, the
senior bureau agent assigned to the case, who had subsequently been
named the top agent in the Dallas office, was in charge of the
cleanup effort.
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NJDT: "in charge of the cleanup effort"? Why Danny's been in charge
of that
since DaY One on OKBOMB.
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One official said that by the end of January, a team of bureau
archivists in Oklahoma City had begun receiving reams of documents.
The archivists set about checking to make sure the materials were
only duplicates of documents sent in during the course of the
investigation and already turned over to the defense. They were to
check each document against a master computer list contained in 26
databases.
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NJDT: As we observed in the last NJDT, these "archivists" were doing
what
they were doing in response to FOIA requests from journalists like
retired
Marine Lt. Col. Roger Charles and J.D. Cash. What happened was the
requests
asked for referenced documents that the FBI files showed didn't
exist.
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By late February, they found themselves dealing with about a
hundred boxes received from 43 F.B.I. offices around the country
and overseas. Initially, it seemed that the documents were indeed
duplicates of those logged before and turned over to Mr. McVeigh's
lawyers, as everyone had assumed.
But they soon began to discern a problem. By March, they had
informed Mr. Defenbaugh that there appeared to be a number of
documents that had not been previously listed. In response to the
archivists' discovery, Mr. Defenbaugh went to Oklahoma City to meet
with them.
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NJDT: Ah ha! Now here we have another nexus of the conspiracy.
Question
for the Senators: Who were these so-called archivists? What did
Defenbaugh
ask/tell them? And, when you find them, if they exist, did one of
them look
Defenbaugh in the eye and say: "The hell with you. I'm not going to
jail
for you or Janet Reno."???
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At about this time, Justice Department officials were deeply
involved in making complicated arrangements to put Mr. McVeigh to
death, the first federal execution in 38 years. They were consumed
with such matters as how to organize a closed-circuit television
viewing of the planned lethal injection at a federal prison in
Terre Haute, Ind., for the families of the victims.
Justice Department officials said they did not believe Mr.
Defenbaugh informed his superiors that there might have been a
serious problem involving documents that were not disclosed to the
defense.
"He never thought any of this stuff had any impact on McVeigh or
Nichols," one law enforcement official said, referring to Mr.
McVeigh and Terry Nichols, a co-defendant in the bombing who was
convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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NJDT: RIIIIIIIIGHT! This is a guy who understands full well that
for
Nichols at least, facing an Oklahoma state trial, this is life or
death
stuff. Is the Bureau really trying to push the theory that perfect
morons
are given contol of their largest field offices? Well, maybe they
are.
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While Mr. Defenbaugh did not inform his superiors of any potential
problem, he instructed the archive team to examine the documents
more closely and to get a sense of how much of a problem existed,
the officials said. They said Mr. Defenbaugh told them this week
that he hoped the discrepancy might involve only a few tangential
documents.
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NJDT: And here we have the DC Confidentials hanging old Danny out on
the
line. It's all Danny's fault. Yup. Time to decide where you want
to go
post-Bureau, Danny. They're measuring you for your subpoena.
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But after examining the contents of the boxes, the archives team
concluded that enough documents to fill about three boxes had never
been logged into the system or given to defense lawyers.
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NJDT: "We're shocked! Shocked! to find cover-up going on here!"
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Mr. Defenbaugh did not notify anyone in Washington of the
magnitude of the problem until last Tuesday, officials who have
been reviewing the records said. At that time, he informed Sean
Connelly, a senior Justice Department official monitoring the
McVeigh case. The F.B.I. director, Louis J. Freeh, and Mr. Ashcroft
learned of the development on Thursday, officials said.
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NJDT: Yup, he's toast.
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Mr. Freeh, who several days earlier had announced his impending
retirement, had just endured a round of journalistic reviews of his
eight-year tenure that included accounts of several lapses. Mr.
Ashcroft was still trying to establish his footing at the Justice
Department and had been highly visible on the issue of the
execution.
The officials said they had so far been unable to learn why Mr.
Defenbaugh did not bring the problem to his superiors' attention
earlier. Bureau officials said the Justice Department declined to
make Mr. Defenbaugh available for interviews.
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NJDT: Burnt toast.
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The government would ordinarily not be required to turn over most,
if any, of what is contained in those pages, as officials assert
they do not meet the legal standard of having a bearing on the
guilt or punishment of Mr. McVeigh. But because of the
extraordinary nature of the case, prosecutors had agreed to an an
extraordinary standard: they would turn over everything, even those
documents that did not affect the questions of guilt or punishment.
"It's always a problem to do that," one federal prosecutor said.
"You never know what you don't know."
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NJDT: I'm going to use this one with my boss the next time
something
happens I didn't have warning of. Priceless. Is this guy's name
McCarthy?
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The principle governing disclosure of documents to the defense was
entrenched in the law in 1963 in a case called Brady v. Maryland,
when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a defendant was
entitled to a new trial when state prosecutors failed to provide
him with a confession from an accomplice. Prosecutors have a duty
to disclose any such important evidence, known as Brady material,
in the files of any investigative agency.
But the court has also made clear that the government does not
have to disclose information that is "neutral, irrelevant or
speculative."
Senior Justice Department officials said they hoped that the pages
now being turned over to defense lawyers would be just that:
irrelevant to the issues of guilt and punishment.
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NJDT: Praying, more than hoping, I'll bet
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Early examination of the documents, they said, showed that many of
the
records were
bureau reports known as 302's, in which agents recorded things like
telephone tips that did not lead anywhere.
Courts have generally ruled that prosecutors who violate the
disclosure rules may be sanctioned. But the Supreme Court ruled in
1985, and has repeated several times since then, that a verdict or
penalty should not be affected unless material evidence is
withheld, meaning that "there is a reasonable probability that the
disclosure of the evidence would have changed the outcome of the
proceeding."
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SENATORS GRUMBLE ABOUT MAKING HEADS ROLL.....
DID THE FBI LOSE <THEIR> FILES???
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NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, May 13, 2001
Senators Criticize F.B.I. on McVeigh Papers
By DOUGLAS JEHL
WASHINGTON, May 13 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation came under
scathing criticism today from Capitol Hill, with Democratic and
Republican lawmakers describing the mishandling of documents in the
Timothy J. McVeigh case as the latest in several fiascoes that
appeared to reflect deep problems within the agency.
One critic, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was
openly skeptical of the bureau's explanation that a flawed database
rather than broader mismanagement lay at the root of the problem,
which surfaced just days before Mr. McVeigh was scheduled to be
executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. The foul-up has
forced the Justice Department to postpone the execution at least
until June 11.
Attorney General John Ashcroft has already ordered the Justice
Department's inspector general to investigate why the bureau failed
until last week to turn over thousands of pages of interview
reports and related materials that should have been given to Mr.
McVeigh's lawyers before his trial in 1996. But the lawmakers went
further today, saying that this F.B.I. lapse and others called out
for Congress or a presidential commission to examine what they
called matters of culture and competence.
"When you have on major case after major case after major case,
mistake after mistake after mistake, it's time for a thorough and
complete re-examination," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of
New York, said on the CBS program "Face the Nation." A Senate
subcommittee is to begin such a review soon, Mr. Schumer said, and
he called on President Bush to assemble leading law- enforcement
officials to conduct "a top-to-bottom review" of the bureau.
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NJDT: Run by John Danforth, no doubt.
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Appearing separately on Sunday television programs, the lawmakers
cited what they called F.B.I. bungling in a number of other high-
profile cases, including the fatal assaults that ended standoffs
between federal agents and citizens in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in 1992
and against the Branch Davidians' complex near Waco, Tex., in 1993.
They also mentioned the bureau's failure until this year to arrest
one of its agents, Robert P. Hanssen, who has been accused of
espionage dating back many years.
"I think there's a management culture here that's at fault,"
Senator Grassley said on ABC's "This Week." "I call it a `cowboy
culture.' It's kind of a culture that puts image, public relations
and headlines ahead of the fundamentals of the F.B.I."
It remained unclear today how or whether the latest lapse, in the
McVeigh case, might affect the final outcome of what was the worst
case of domestic terrorism in the United States and what was to
have been the first federal execution in 38 years. The execution
was postponed to allow Mr. McVeigh's lawyers time to review more
than 3,000 pages of documents that were not surrendered until last
week by F.B.I. field offices.
Attorney General Ashcroft and other law enforcement officials in
the Bush administration have said there is no evidence that the
documents were deliberately withheld by anyone, and they say
nothing in them changes the fact of Mr. McVeigh's guilt. Mr.
McVeigh, 33, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1997 for the
bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City
on April 19, 1995, and he has since acknowledged his guilt.
But lawyers for Mr. McVeigh said today that they were studying
"all options" in light of the belated emergence of the documents.
"We're looking for anything that provides an arguable basis to go
to court and seek relief," one lawyer, Nathan D. Chambers, said on
"This Week."
Mr. Chambers and a second lawyer, Robert Nigh Jr., said it was
important that they determine how the mistake could have been made.
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NJDT: Why is it that no other media person other than J.D. Cash and
Lt. Col.
Roger Charles have noticed that Carol Howe's attorney, Clark
Brewster, is a
law partner with Tim McVeigh's attorney? What does it say on their
door:
"Conspiracies R Us"?
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The lawyers have left open the possibility that they might
challenge Mr. McVeigh's conviction or his death sentence, and they
said today that it might take longer than the 30 days allowed under
the reprieve for them to complete their legal review.
A request for a further reprieve would be subject to approval by a
judge, and would probably set up a new clash with the Justice
Department. Mr. Ashcroft was quoted today in The Daily Oklahoman as
saying that "ample time" had been given to the defense lawyers and
that he had "no intention" of extending the June 11 execution date.
In their television appearances today, the lawmakers who were
critical of the F.B.I. said that they had no doubt about Mr.
McVeigh's guilt. But some, including Senator Arlen Specter,
Republican of Pennsylvania, said that any suppression of evidence
against Mr. McVeigh could also constitute a crime.
"If we find deliberate concealment, that's obstruction of justice,
and people ought to go to jail," Senator Specter said on "Fox News
Sunday."
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<BR>THE NEW JOHN DOE TIMES
<BR>Volume 1, No. 4
<BR>14 May 2001
<BR>
<BR>IN THIS ISSUE:
<BR>
<BR>***THE "SMOKING GUN 302", OR WHY THE FBI FIELD OFFICES DIDN'T
SEND IN THE
<BR>FILES.
<BR>
<BR>***JUSTICE DELIBERATELY "HELD IN ABEYANCE" BY THE OK. BOMB
INVESTIGATORS.
<BR>
<BR>***COMING SOON TO A CONGRESSIONAL HEARING NEAR YOU: "DC
CONFIDENTIAL"
<BR>
<BR>***WHY DANNY "DUDLEY SMITH" DEFENBAUGH KEPT HOPING FOR A RECORDS
FIRE
<BR>
<BR>***WHO WILL PLAY "ED EXLEY" IN THE FBI REMAKE OF "LA
CONFIDENTIAL"?
<BR>
<BR>***HANGIN' IT ALL ON DANNY. WITH THE OLD BROWN STUFF
RUNNING DOWN HIS LEG,
<BR>WILL DANNY CHANGE HIS LAST NAME TO "DEFECATE"?
<BR>
<BR>***BEST STUPID GOVERNMENT LAWYER QUOTE IN THIS CASE YET: "YOU
NEVER KNOW
<BR>WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW."
<BR>
<BR>***IS THIS GUY RELATED TO KEVIN McCARTHY (JOHN DOE #1) WHO ONCE
TOLD THE
<BR>FBI: "I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN I QUIT REMEMBERING THINGS."?
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>ALSO
<BR>
<BR>***CONSPIRACY THEORY OR CONSPIRACY FACT? YOU DECIDE.
<BR>
<BR>***IS J. EDGAR HOOVER'S BRAIN ALIVE AND WELL IN THE BASEMENT OF
THE HOOVER
<BR>BUILDING, OR ARE DEFENBAUGH AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS JUST
BOYS-FROM-BRAZIL
<BR>CLONES?
<BR>
<BR>***OR, IS IT JUST TOUGH TO FIND OTHER WORK ONCE YOU'VE BEEN AN
ALL-POWERFUL
<BR>SECRET POLICEMAN?
<BR>
<BR>AND:
<BR>
<BR>***SENATORS GRUMBLE ABOUT ROLLING HEADS
<BR>
<BR>***YOU DON'T SUPPOSE THE FBI LOST <THEIR> FILES, DO YOU?
<BR>
<BR>***GRASSLEY BLAMES "COWBOY CULTURE" OF FBI, WHICH IS AN INSULT
TO HONEST
<BR>COWBOYS EVERYWHERE.
<BR>
<BR>***COWBOY ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGURE TO SUE?
<BR>
<BR>***JOHN DOE TIMES TRIVIA QUESTION: WHAT DO ATF INFORMANT CAROL
HOWE AND
<BR>CONVICTED OKC BOMBER TIM McVEIGH HAVE IN COMMON?
<BR>
<BR>***ANSWER?: A LAW FIRM!.."CONSPIRACIES R US"
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<BR>From the Editor,
<BR>
<BR>To throw a little light on this "missing files" business, gentle
readers,
<BR>let me share with you some of the text of a memo inside a
certain FBI "302".
<BR>The memo was written in mid-may, 1995, less then one month after
the OKC
<BR>bombing. And this is what the memo said:
<BR>
<BR>"IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT THE OKLAHOMA COMMAND POST HAS DIRECTED
ALL OFFICES
<BR>TO HOLD UNSUB#2 LEADS IN ABEYANCE, SAN FRANCISCO WILL CONDUCT NO
FURTHER
<BR>INVESTIGATION REGARDING THIS LEAD."
<BR>
<BR>Now "Unsub#2" means "Unidentified Subject #2" aka "John Doe #2".
"Unsub #1"
<BR>(aka John Doe #1), was presumed to be McVeigh (in fact the Feds
later
<BR>insisted upon it), but was actually ARA member Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy,
<BR>long-time readers of the old JDT may recall, was the former
Philadelphian
<BR>who was so brain-fried by previous dope use that he once told
the FBI, "I
<BR>can't remember when I quit remembering things." In this,
he may be related
<BR>to the ridiculous government lawyer quoted below in re the "lost
documents":
<BR>"You never know what you don't know."
<BR>
<BR>John Doe #2, as readers will remember, was and is Michael
Brescia, former
<BR>Philadelphia choirboy who impressed Dennis Mahon as "the
scariest guy I ever
<BR>met in the Movement". ("Movement" in this case does not
refer to bowel
<BR>movement, but rather to the racist terrorist movement, although
<BR>philosophically the two are strikingly similar.) Brescia,
as reported in
<BR>the last NJDT, is now free and walking the streets. One
rumor picked up by
<BR>a previously-reliable law enforcement-linked source has Brescia
spotted at a
<BR>certain european airport not too long ago, but as old JDT
readers known, the
<BR>Feds have previously floated such rumors (which later turned out
to be
<BR>disinformation) about the John Doe rats in order to distract the
John Doe
<BR>cats (which is us.)
<BR>
<BR>Now if the Feds didn't collect these documents regarding JD#2
and pass them
<BR>on both to the OKBOMB taskforce in OKC and the defense teams of
Nichols and
<BR>McVeigh it is because THEY WERE DIRECTED NOT TO. What we
really need to see
<BR>is the cable that went out from the OKBOMB task force that the
memo refers
<BR>to. Whose name was on it? Who ordered it sent?
If the Senators who are
<BR>interested in getting to the bottom of this are truly serious
perhaps they
<BR>will start there.
<BR>
<BR>Long-time readers of the JDT will recall what happens when the
<BR>Bureau/Justice Department is getting ready to hang one of their
own out to
<BR>dry in the interest of bureaucratic longevity, and will
recognize the type
<BR>of story represented by the NYT piece below.
<BR>
<BR>Danny Defenbaugh (nicknames previously garnered Defenbaugh in
the JDT
<BR>include "Danny Deafanddumb" and "Danny Defecate") is the guy who
once denied
<BR>to a reporter that Michael Brescia was John Doe #2 because
(unlike JD#2) he
<BR>had red hair and no tattoos. Of course Brescia has both
dark brown to black
<BR>hair and a white power tattoo just like the rental truck company
employees
<BR>reported, but since the reporter hadn't been reading the John
Doe Times,
<BR>Defenbaugh got away with the lie. Defenbaugh has been in
the middle of this
<BR>cover-up since he came to OKBOMB shortly after it started.
If we are
<BR>guessing correctly from the tone of the NYT piece, it has now
been decided
<BR>to hang Defenbaugh out to dry.
<BR>
<BR>The FBI it seems is about to have a remake of "LA Confidential"
starring
<BR>Danny as the crooked police chief of detectives Dudley Smith.
What remains
<BR>to be seen is which Fibbie will get the Oscar for reprising the
role of
<BR>straight-arrow Ed Exley. Who will be the guy who "saves
the bureau", cleans
<BR>house and goes on to lead "the NEW FBI"?
<BR>
<BR>The next week will tell. Expect leaks from the "document
dump" that detail
<BR>302s filled with little old ladies seeing John Doe #2 with Elvis
and
<BR>reporting flying saucer-borne little gray men planting satchel
charges at
<BR>the Murrah Building. Defenbaugh will have made sure that
plenty of chaff is
<BR>in those boxes. The question is: is there any wheat?
If the Senators who
<BR>investigate will ask the right questions of the right people,
and seek out
<BR>the documents we already know exist (like the aforementioned SF
302 and the
<BR>cable that sparked it, then we may yet get to the truth about
the OKC
<BR>bombing, whether it's in THOSE particular boxes or not.
<BR>
<BR>Let us pray that it will be so. Let us work to make it
happen. You've got
<BR>a telephone. You've got a bit of the truth. You know
who can get the rest.
<BR>Make it happen.
<BR>
<BR>-- Mike Vanderboegh, Editor.
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<BR>
<BR>Posted May 11th, 2001 12:30 PM
<BR>villagevoice.com exclusive
<BR>
<BR>FBI Documents Raise Questions of Wider Conspiracy, Feds'
Forewarning
<BR>McVeigh Papers: What Did the Government Know?
<BR>by James Ridgeway
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>WASHINGTON, D.C., MAY 11-The FBI's announcement yesterday that
it withheld
<BR>files from Tim McVeigh's defense lawyers raises once again not
only the
<BR>prospect of a wider conspiracy, but questions about whether the
government
<BR>itself was trying to cover up events leading to the the Oklahoma
City
<BR>bombing.
<BR>
<BR>Even as Department of Justice officials moved Friday to delay
for 30 days
<BR>McVeigh's execution, which had been scheduled for May 16, some
are asking if
<BR>the feds stashed the documents in hopes of concealing what they
knew
<BR>beforehand about plans to blow up the Murrah Federal Building in
1995.
<BR>
<BR>The feds say this is nonsense, the result of
conspiracy-mongering by people
<BR>in places like the John Birch Society, which played a major role
in
<BR>developing theories of a wider plot. The idea of a conspiracy
may seem
<BR>silly, especially to members of the mainstream press, but as
with whispers
<BR>about the grassy knoll in the Kennedy assassination, rumors of
intrique have
<BR>persisted in this case. They now fuel the early stages of a
massive damage
<BR>suit by families of the victims against the federal government.
<BR>
<BR>Last night's release of the FBI documents was accompanied by
reports that
<BR>McVeigh actually was part of a bank robbery gang called the
Aryan Republican
<BR>Army, a white supremacist outfit that allegedly pulled more jobs
across the
<BR>Midwest than Jesse James ever dreamed of. And according to the
lore
<BR>surrounding this gang, they used the loot to help finance a far
right
<BR>revolution. The gang was modeled along the lines of the Order, a
1980s
<BR>underground terror group that robbed stores and armored cars in
the West to
<BR>get the money to boost the same revolution. Participants in both
gangs had
<BR>ties to the Aryan Nations.
<BR>
<BR>For years now, defense attorneys and independent investigators
have claimed
<BR>that the government had prior knowledge of the conspiracy. Carol
Howe, a
<BR>onetime ATF informant, testified that she had personally
infiltrated a group
<BR>of racists living in Elohim City, an eastern Oklahoma religious
community,
<BR>and had accompanied several men as they cased the federal
building.
<BR>
<BR>At the same time, a closing witness in the Terry Nichols trial
claimed he
<BR>had unexpectedly come upon a group of men and trucks-including
the famous
<BR>Ryder truck used in the blast-and fertilizer bags when he drove
his
<BR>handicapped son down to Geary Lake Kansas. It was here,
according to the
<BR>prosecution, that McVeigh and Nichols made the bomb. The
government
<BR>successfully argued there were three main defendants: McVeigh,
Nichols, and
<BR>Michael Fortier.
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***
<BR>NJDT: How "successfully" is a matter of some argument, since the
Feds
<BR>didn't get the death penalty or the convictions they wanted and
the jury
<BR>forewoman told them off in the press about "others unknown."
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<BR>
<BR>With the McVeigh execution approaching-he is scheduled to be
killed May
<BR>16-there has been an upsurge in speculation and rumors about who
else may
<BR>have been involved. Some of this talk apparently originates with
inmates who
<BR>grew to know McVeigh in different jails and who claim he told
them what went
<BR>down.
<BR>
<BR>Speculation has also been fueled by other events. Chief among
them was the
<BR>arrest of members of the Aryan Republican Army. Some army
members had ties
<BR>to the Aryan Nations and the Posse Comitatus. And they
frequented Elohim
<BR>City. All during the bomb investigation, Elohim City turned up
as a sort of
<BR>hideout in one story after another. Pastor Robert Millar, who
heads the
<BR>community, long has insisted this is rubbish and that he has
nothing
<BR>whatever to do with the bombing. Indeed, just to show how
willing he has
<BR>been to cooperate with the government, Millar reportedly invited
the
<BR>region's chief FBI agent to sing in the choir.
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<BR>NJDT: And even more remarkably, the SAC, Thomas Kukor, actually
accepted and
<BR>went out to this racist dungheap and SANG with his compadres in
the OKC
<BR>coverup. After I pointed this out in the John Doe Times, Kukor
sent two
<BR>Fubbies down to Idabel to lean on the McCurtain Gazette.
What thugs! I
<BR>called Kukor to ask him if he had a problem. He wouldn't
take my call until
<BR>I offered to his secretary to call back in the morning by
routing my call
<BR>through the DOJs Office of Professional Responsibility in DC.
Kukor
<BR>instantly called me back and just as quickly backed down.
Of course,
<BR>Pastor Millar began SINGING to the FBI a long while back.
After all,
<BR>remember what the FBI told the ATF in February of '95 when the
Batfags
<BR>wanted to bust Andreas Strassmeir and Elohim City: "Keep your
hands off EC,
<BR>it's OUR operation."
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<BR>
<BR>Richard Guthrie, the leader of the Aryan Republican Army, hung
himself in
<BR>jail in 1996, shortly after he told the Los Angeles Times that
he was
<BR>writing a book about his gang that would blow the lid off a
wider
<BR>conspiracy. In a sealed plea bargain agreement, he promised to
provide the
<BR>government with information about groups "whose goal is the
overthrow of the
<BR>U.S. government or (to) engage in domestic terrorism." This
supposedly was
<BR>an allusion to the Oklahoma City bombing. Currently, other
members of the
<BR>gang-all in jail-are rumored to be claiming that a certain "Tim"
was in
<BR>contact with their group.
<BR>
<BR>The FBI's belated disclosure comes at a time when Louis Freeh is
stepping
<BR>down as head of the FBI, and after both Clinton and Reno have
left office.
<BR>While the FBI says the papers are insignificant, press reports
claim they
<BR>involved the government's questioning of witnesses about a John
Doe No. 2,
<BR>an unknown person the government originally thought was involved
in the
<BR>plot. These documents may not help McVeigh, but they almost
surely will
<BR>affect Terry Nichols's case, perhaps even leading to a new
trial. Nichols is
<BR>in jail for life on federal offenses and is awaiting prosecution
in Oklahoma
<BR>that could end with a death sentence.
<BR>
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<BR>
<BR>NEW YORK TIMES, 12 May 2001
<BR>
<BR>What Happened to the McVeigh Evidence?
<BR>By NEIL A. LEWIS and DAVID JOHNSTON
<BR>
<BR>WASHINGTON, May 12 - The discovery of thousands of pages of
<BR>undisclosed evidence in the Timothy J. McVeigh case had its
origins
<BR>in the closing days of last year, in what one law enforcement
<BR>official this weekend described as a routine effort to "have a
<BR>final cleanup."
<BR>
<BR>By this week, senior officials say, they had realized for the
<BR>first time that there were 3,135 pages connected with "OKBOMB,"
as
<BR>the Oklahoma City bombing case was known to insiders, that had
<BR>never been turned over to Mr. McVeigh's lawyers.
<BR>
<BR>As a result of that discovery, the execution of Mr. McVeigh,
<BR>scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed until at least June 11 by
<BR>Attorney General John Ashcroft. Mr. Ashcroft and the Federal
Bureau
<BR>of Investigation, reeling from the embarrassment of the serious
<BR>mishandling of the largest domestic antiterrorism case in the
<BR>nation's history, were scrambling to figure out what happened.
<BR>
<BR>Senior law enforcement officials in the Bush administration,
<BR>giving their version of what they have been able to reconstruct
so
<BR>far, say there is no evidence that the documents were
deliberately
<BR>withheld by anyone. That conclusion has not, however, been
tested
<BR>by lawyers for Mr. McVeigh, who have yet to examine the
documents
<BR>and give their view of the significance of the discovery.
<BR>
<BR>The officials said in interviews that in late December an
unsigned
<BR>message was sent from F.B.I. headquarters in Washington to the
<BR>bureau's 56 field offices, instructing them to "clear the
books."
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**
<BR>NJDT: An "unsigned" message? Who sent it, and why?
"Clear the books"?
<BR>Awfully vague language. What did the letter say? Who
sent it? Who ordered
<BR>it sent?
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**
<BR>The message asked officials to send in to headquarters any items
in
<BR>the files related to the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal
<BR>Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995. Daniel Defenbaugh,
the
<BR>senior bureau agent assigned to the case, who had subsequently
been
<BR>named the top agent in the Dallas office, was in charge of the
<BR>cleanup effort.
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***
<BR>NJDT: "in charge of the cleanup effort"? Why Danny's been
in charge of that
<BR>since DaY One on OKBOMB.
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***
<BR>
<BR>One official said that by the end of January, a team of bureau
<BR>archivists in Oklahoma City had begun receiving reams of
documents.
<BR>The archivists set about checking to make sure the materials
were
<BR>only duplicates of documents sent in during the course of the
<BR>investigation and already turned over to the defense. They were
to
<BR>check each document against a master computer list contained in
26
<BR>databases.
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****
<BR>NJDT: As we observed in the last NJDT, these "archivists" were
doing what
<BR>they were doing in response to FOIA requests from journalists
like retired
<BR>Marine Lt. Col. Roger Charles and J.D. Cash. What happened
was the requests
<BR>asked for referenced documents that the FBI files showed didn't
exist.
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****
<BR>
<BR>By late February, they found themselves dealing with about a
<BR>hundred boxes received from 43 F.B.I. offices around the country
<BR>and overseas. Initially, it seemed that the documents were
indeed
<BR>duplicates of those logged before and turned over to Mr.
McVeigh's
<BR>lawyers, as everyone had assumed.
<BR>
<BR>But they soon began to discern a problem. By March, they had
<BR>informed Mr. Defenbaugh that there appeared to be a number of
<BR>documents that had not been previously listed. In response to
the
<BR>archivists' discovery, Mr. Defenbaugh went to Oklahoma City to
meet
<BR>with them.
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***
<BR>NJDT: Ah ha! Now here we have another nexus of the
conspiracy. Question
<BR>for the Senators: Who were these so-called archivists?
What did Defenbaugh
<BR>ask/tell them? And, when you find them, if they exist, did
one of them look
<BR>Defenbaugh in the eye and say: "The hell with you. I'm not
going to jail
<BR>for you or Janet Reno."???
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<BR>
<BR>At about this time, Justice Department officials were deeply
<BR>involved in making complicated arrangements to put Mr. McVeigh
to
<BR>death, the first federal execution in 38 years. They were
consumed
<BR>with such matters as how to organize a closed-circuit television
<BR>viewing of the planned lethal injection at a federal prison in
<BR>Terre Haute, Ind., for the families of the victims.
<BR>
<BR>Justice Department officials said they did not believe Mr.
<BR>Defenbaugh informed his superiors that there might have been a
<BR>serious problem involving documents that were not disclosed to
the
<BR>defense.
<BR>
<BR>"He never thought any of this stuff had any impact on McVeigh or
<BR>Nichols," one law enforcement official said, referring to Mr.
<BR>McVeigh and Terry Nichols, a co-defendant in the bombing who was
<BR>convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
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*
<BR>NJDT: RIIIIIIIIGHT! This is a guy who understands
full well that for
<BR>Nichols at least, facing an Oklahoma state trial, this is life
or death
<BR>stuff. Is the Bureau really trying to push the theory that
perfect morons
<BR>are given contol of their largest field offices?
Well, maybe they are.
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*
<BR>
<BR>While Mr. Defenbaugh did not inform his superiors of any
potential
<BR>problem, he instructed the archive team to examine the documents
<BR>more closely and to get a sense of how much of a problem
existed,
<BR>the officials said. They said Mr. Defenbaugh told them this week
<BR>that he hoped the discrepancy might involve only a few
tangential
<BR>documents.
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*
<BR>NJDT: And here we have the DC Confidentials hanging old Danny
out on the
<BR>line. It's all Danny's fault. Yup. Time to
decide where you want to go
<BR>post-Bureau, Danny. They're measuring you for your
subpoena.
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*
<BR>
<BR>But after examining the contents of the boxes, the archives team
<BR>concluded that enough documents to fill about three boxes had
never
<BR>been logged into the system or given to defense lawyers.
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*
<BR>NJDT: "We're shocked! Shocked! to find cover-up going on
here!"
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*
<BR>
<BR>Mr. Defenbaugh did not notify anyone in Washington of the
<BR>magnitude of the problem until last Tuesday, officials who have
<BR>been reviewing the records said. At that time, he informed Sean
<BR>Connelly, a senior Justice Department official monitoring the
<BR>McVeigh case. The F.B.I. director, Louis J. Freeh, and Mr.
Ashcroft
<BR>learned of the development on Thursday, officials said.
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*
<BR>NJDT: Yup, he's toast.
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*
<BR>
<BR>Mr. Freeh, who several days earlier had announced his impending
<BR>retirement, had just endured a round of journalistic reviews of
his
<BR>eight-year tenure that included accounts of several lapses. Mr.
<BR>Ashcroft was still trying to establish his footing at the
Justice
<BR>Department and had been highly visible on the issue of the
<BR>execution.
<BR>
<BR>The officials said they had so far been unable to learn why Mr.
<BR>Defenbaugh did not bring the problem to his superiors' attention
<BR>earlier. Bureau officials said the Justice Department declined
to
<BR>make Mr. Defenbaugh available for interviews.
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*
<BR>NJDT: Burnt toast.
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*
<BR>
<BR>The government would ordinarily not be required to turn over
most,
<BR>if any, of what is contained in those pages, as officials assert
<BR>they do not meet the legal standard of having a bearing on the
<BR>guilt or punishment of Mr. McVeigh. But because of the
<BR>extraordinary nature of the case, prosecutors had agreed to an
an
<BR>extraordinary standard: they would turn over everything, even
those
<BR>documents that did not affect the questions of guilt or
punishment.
<BR>
<BR>"It's always a problem to do that," one federal prosecutor said.
<BR>"You never know what you don't know."
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*
<BR>NJDT: I'm going to use this one with my boss the next time
something
<BR>happens I didn't have warning of. Priceless. Is this
guy's name McCarthy?
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*
<BR>
<BR>The principle governing disclosure of documents to the defense
was
<BR>entrenched in the law in 1963 in a case called Brady v.
Maryland,
<BR>when the United States Supreme Court ruled that a defendant was
<BR>entitled to a new trial when state prosecutors failed to provide
<BR>him with a confession from an accomplice. Prosecutors have a
duty
<BR>to disclose any such important evidence, known as Brady
material,
<BR>in the files of any investigative agency.
<BR>
<BR>But the court has also made clear that the government does not
<BR>have to disclose information that is "neutral, irrelevant or
<BR>speculative."
<BR>
<BR>Senior Justice Department officials said they hoped that the
pages
<BR>now being turned over to defense lawyers would be just that:
<BR>irrelevant to the issues of guilt and punishment.
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**
<BR>NJDT: Praying, more than hoping, I'll bet
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**
<BR>Early examination of the documents, they said, showed that many
of the
<BR>records were
<BR>bureau reports known as 302's, in which agents recorded things
like
<BR>telephone tips that did not lead anywhere.
<BR>
<BR>Courts have generally ruled that prosecutors who violate the
<BR>disclosure rules may be sanctioned. But the Supreme Court ruled
in
<BR>1985, and has repeated several times since then, that a verdict
or
<BR>penalty should not be affected unless material evidence is
<BR>withheld, meaning that "there is a reasonable probability that
the
<BR>disclosure of the evidence would have changed the outcome of the
<BR>proceeding."
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<BR>SENATORS GRUMBLE ABOUT MAKING HEADS ROLL.....
<BR>
<BR>DID THE FBI LOSE <THEIR> FILES???
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<BR>
<BR>NEW YORK TIMES, Sunday, May 13, 2001
<BR>Senators Criticize F.B.I. on McVeigh Papers
<BR>
<BR>By DOUGLAS JEHL
<BR>WASHINGTON, May 13 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation came
under
<BR>scathing criticism today from Capitol Hill, with Democratic and
<BR>Republican lawmakers describing the mishandling of documents in
the
<BR>Timothy J. McVeigh case as the latest in several fiascoes that
<BR>appeared to reflect deep problems within the agency.
<BR>
<BR>One critic, Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, was
<BR>openly skeptical of the bureau's explanation that a flawed
database
<BR>rather than broader mismanagement lay at the root of the
problem,
<BR>which surfaced just days before Mr. McVeigh was scheduled to be
<BR>executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing. The foul-up
has
<BR>forced the Justice Department to postpone the execution at least
<BR>until June 11.
<BR>
<BR>Attorney General John Ashcroft has already ordered the Justice
<BR>Department's inspector general to investigate why the bureau
failed
<BR>until last week to turn over thousands of pages of interview
<BR>reports and related materials that should have been given to Mr.
<BR>McVeigh's lawyers before his trial in 1996. But the lawmakers
went
<BR>further today, saying that this F.B.I. lapse and others called
out
<BR>for Congress or a presidential commission to examine what they
<BR>called matters of culture and competence.
<BR>
<BR>"When you have on major case after major case after major case,
<BR>mistake after mistake after mistake, it's time for a thorough
and
<BR>complete re-examination," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat
of
<BR>New York, said on the CBS program "Face the Nation." A Senate
<BR>subcommittee is to begin such a review soon, Mr. Schumer said,
and
<BR>he called on President Bush to assemble leading law- enforcement
<BR>officials to conduct "a top-to-bottom review" of the bureau.
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<BR>NJDT: Run by John Danforth, no doubt.
<BR>******************************************
<BR>
<BR>Appearing separately on Sunday television programs, the
lawmakers
<BR>cited what they called F.B.I. bungling in a number of other
high-
<BR>profile cases, including the fatal assaults that ended standoffs
<BR>between federal agents and citizens in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, in
1992
<BR>and against the Branch Davidians' complex near Waco, Tex., in
1993.
<BR>They also mentioned the bureau's failure until this year to
arrest
<BR>one of its agents, Robert P. Hanssen, who has been accused of
<BR>espionage dating back many years.
<BR>
<BR>"I think there's a management culture here that's at fault,"
<BR>Senator Grassley said on ABC's "This Week." "I call it a `cowboy
<BR>culture.' It's kind of a culture that puts image, public
relations
<BR>and headlines ahead of the fundamentals of the F.B.I."
<BR>
<BR>It remained unclear today how or whether the latest lapse, in
the
<BR>McVeigh case, might affect the final outcome of what was the
worst
<BR>case of domestic terrorism in the United States and what was to
<BR>have been the first federal execution in 38 years. The execution
<BR>was postponed to allow Mr. McVeigh's lawyers time to review more
<BR>than 3,000 pages of documents that were not surrendered until
last
<BR>week by F.B.I. field offices.
<BR>
<BR>Attorney General Ashcroft and other law enforcement officials in
<BR>the Bush administration have said there is no evidence that the
<BR>documents were deliberately withheld by anyone, and they say
<BR>nothing in them changes the fact of Mr. McVeigh's guilt. Mr.
<BR>McVeigh, 33, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1997 for
the
<BR>bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma
City
<BR>on April 19, 1995, and he has since acknowledged his guilt.
<BR>
<BR>But lawyers for Mr. McVeigh said today that they were studying
<BR>"all options" in light of the belated emergence of the
documents.
<BR>"We're looking for anything that provides an arguable basis to
go
<BR>to court and seek relief," one lawyer, Nathan D. Chambers, said
on
<BR>"This Week."
<BR>
<BR>Mr. Chambers and a second lawyer, Robert Nigh Jr., said it was
<BR>important that they determine how the mistake could have been
made.
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<BR>NJDT: Why is it that no other media person other than J.D. Cash
and Lt. Col.
<BR>Roger Charles have noticed that Carol Howe's attorney, Clark
Brewster, is a
<BR>law partner with Tim McVeigh's attorney? What does it say on
their door:
<BR>"Conspiracies R Us"?
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<BR>The lawyers have left open the possibility that they might
<BR>challenge Mr. McVeigh's conviction or his death sentence, and
they
<BR>said today that it might take longer than the 30 days allowed
under
<BR>the reprieve for them to complete their legal review.
<BR>
<BR>A request for a further reprieve would be subject to approval by
a
<BR>judge, and would probably set up a new clash with the Justice
<BR>Department. Mr. Ashcroft was quoted today in The Daily Oklahoman
as
<BR>saying that "ample time" had been given to the defense lawyers
and
<BR>that he had "no intention" of extending the June 11 execution
date.
<BR>
<BR>
<BR>In their television appearances today, the lawmakers who were
<BR>critical of the F.B.I. said that they had no doubt about Mr.
<BR>McVeigh's guilt. But some, including Senator Arlen Specter,
<BR>Republican of Pennsylvania, said that any suppression of
evidence
<BR>against Mr. McVeigh could also constitute a crime.
<BR>
<BR>"If we find deliberate concealment, that's obstruction of
justice,
<BR>and people ought to go to jail," Senator Specter said on "Fox
News
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