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FBI Orders Massive Search of Its Offices
NewsMax.com Wires
Wednesday, May 16, 2001
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - The FBI has ordered its offices around the world
to examine their records for material on Oklahoma City bomber
Timothy McVeigh after more undisclosed records were found in
Baltimore, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.
"Everybody is checking again. The whole bureau today," said an FBI
source, one of several government sources who asked not to be
identified because of the investigation. "Everybody is going through
everything again."
A Department of Justice official said authorities were worried that
if even more material is found after this latest search, it would be
all the more embarrassing to federal law enforcement.
"We certainly want all the information that is available," the
official said. "We want all the information that's out there."
Seven more documents were found in the FBI's Baltimore office last
week and were expected to be delivered to McVeigh's attorneys,
sources told the newspaper.
Like the material found in other offices, however, the Baltimore
documents were discounted by government sources, who said they had
no relevance to McVeigh's guilt or innocence. Baltimore was one of
dozens of FBI field offices involved in interviewing witnesses and
collecting evidence.
Federal officials last week discovered the 3,135 pages of new
material after collecting McVeigh files from dozens of field offices
across the country.
Robert Nigh, one of McVeigh's two court-appointed lawyers, said the
"12th-hour revelation" that the documents had been found cast doubt
on his client's conviction of murdering 168 people in the April 19,
1995, bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.
McVeigh: No 'John Doe No. 2'
In Houston, the Chronicle reported that McVeigh wrote a letter to
the newspaper stating unequivocally that there was never a "John Doe
No. 2."
McVeigh's letter came in response to a reporter's inquiries about
renewed allegations by his estranged trial attorney, Stephen Jones,
that McVeigh has always inflated his role in the bombing to serve
his ego.
"Jones has been thoroughly discredited, so I'm not going to break a
sweat refuting his outlandish claims point-by-point," McVeigh wrote.
"The truth is on my side.
"And last, does anyone honestly believe that if there was a John Doe
#2 (there is not), that Stephen Jones would still be alive? ...
Think about it," McVeigh said in his letter to the Houston
Chronicle.
Legal experts say the statement, in McVeigh's own distinctive
handwriting, could weaken any argument his attorneys might make to
seek a new trial based on the possible existence of other
conspirators in the 1995 bombing.
McVeigh was set to die by lethal injection today,but the execution
was delayed last week by Attorney General John Ashcroft after the
FBI revealed it had failed to turn over the previously undisclosed
documents to McVeigh's lawyers.
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