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> Lawyer outlines a broader conspiracy in search for FBI documents on
> Oklahoma City bombing
> By Pamela Manson
>
> The Salt Lake Tribune
>
> Article Last Updated:04/17/2007 01:15:58 AM MDThttp://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5684544?source=email
>
> A Utah attorney alleges informants gathering information on Timothy
> McVeigh or his associates wathe plot to bomb the rned the FBI about
> Oklahoma City federal building but the agency took no action to stop the
> 1995 attack.
>
> Jesse Trentadue also says there were others involved in carrying
> out the bombing besides McVeigh and Terry Nichols, despite
> investigators' conclusion that they were the only ones responsible for
> the crime.
> The allegations are made in a brief filed Monday in a lawsuit by
> Trentadue, who believes his brother s death in a federal prison was
> linked to the bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI
> under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), alleges that
> authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and
> guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.
> Trentadue noted in his brief that on Thursday, it will be 12 years
> since 168 people died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in
> downtown Oklahoma City.
>
> "It will also soon be twelve years since the murder of Kenneth
> Michael Trentadue, and three years since Plaintiff started out to
> obtain proof that his brother . . . became the 169th victim of the
> Bombing when he was tortured to obtain information he did not have
> and eventually was strangled with a pair of plastic handcuffs," the
> lawyer wrote.
>
> The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah, which represents the FBI,
> received a copy of the brief late Monday afternoon and was still
> reviewing it.
> The FBI could not be reached for immediate comment. However,agency
> officials previously have denied any advance notice of the
> plot or mishandling of the investigation into the bombing. They
> also adamantly deny any wrongdoing in Kenneth Trentadue's death, which
> was ruled a suicide after several investigations.
> In the brief, Trentadue contends he has documented that at least
> seven informants were involved with McVeigh and his associates. The
> informants were allegedly participating in sting operations targeting a
> white-supremacist compound in Oklahoma and a gang suspected of
> robbing banks to fund attacks on government buildings. McVeigh, who
> was executed in 2001, had links to both, Trentadue says.
> He alleges that the sting involving the white-supremacist compound
> a Christian Identity settlement in Adair County, Okla., called Elohim
> City was a joint operation by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law
> Center, a civil rights organization based in Alabama. He
> claims there is evidence that the SPLC, which heard about the
> impending attack from the informants, warned the FBI.
> SPLC director Mark Potok could not be reached Monday, but
> previously has said his group never had an informant or anyone else at
> the compound and did not know about the plot.
> Trentadue has asked U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball in Salt Lake
> City to allow him to conduct depositions of two men who likely know
> about the sting operations. They are Nichols, who is serving a life
> sentence for his part in the attack, and federal death row inmate David
> Paul Hammer, who was housed on the same prison tier as McVeigh for
> almost two years.
> Hammer spent much of that time "listening to McVeigh describe the
> bombing in minute detail, including the identities of others
> involved," according to the brief.
> Trentadue claims the depositions will prove that the FBI has failed
> to turn over all relevant documents.
> Lawyers for the FBI say the agency has made appropriate searches
> for documents requested by Trentadue. They also say judges in FOIA
> cases do not have the authority to order depositions.
> Kenneth Trentadue, who had served time for bank robbery, was
> arrested near San Diego in June 1995, two months after the bombing. He
> later was sent to the transfer center in Oklahoma City for an alleged
> parole violation.
> On Aug. 21, 1995, guards found Trentadue's blood-soaked body in his
> cell hanging from a noose made of torn bedsheets. Prison officials say
> the 44-year-old inmate committed suicide. However, the inmate's family
> insists that Trentadue was mistaken for John Doe No. 2, a suspect sought
> in connection with the bombing who turned out to be bank robber Richard
> Lee Guthrie.
> Jesse Trentadue claims his brother resembled Guthrie. Both men were
> about the same height and build, he says, and both had a tattoo of a
> dragon on the left arm. In addition, Kenneth Trentadue drove a Chevy
> pickup truck, the same kind of vehicle John Doe No. 2 was reported to be
> driving.
> Guthrie was eventually captured and struck a plea deal in 1996 on
> bank robbery charges. A few months later, he was found hanged in his
> cell in Kentucky in what was ruled a suicide.
> In Monday's filing, Trentadue includes a 2004 affidavit by former
> Cincinnati police Officer Matthew James Moning, who investigated
> suspected members of the Midwest Bank Robbery Gang from August 1993
> to June 1994. Moning claims he was told by a Secret Service agent
> that Guthrie killed himself after being told "that he was going to
> be executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing case."
> Moning writes in the affidavit that he believes a third member of
> the gang, Shawn Kenny, and his wife, Tabitha Kenny, were government
> informants being paid "by the F.B.I. and Secret Service for God knows
> what.' "
>
> Other exhibits attached to Trentadue's motion include:
> A declaration dated April 9, 2007, by Peter Kevin Langan, who was
> convicted along with Guthrie and other members of the Midwest
> ank Robbery Gang.
>
> Langan, currently an inmate in a federal prison in Illinois, claims he
> was coerced in 1993 into being an informant for the Secret
> Service. He claims that Guthrie told him that cohort Kevin McCarthy was
> John Doe No. 2 and then said, "Your young Mr. Wizard [Kevin
> McCarthy] took out the Murrah Building."
> McCarthy served five years in federal prison and was released on
> probation, according to law enforcement officials. His whereabouts are
> unknown.
>
> A 2004 letter from Nichols to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft
> offering to give information about other participants in the bombing.
> Nichols, who is housed in a federal penitentiary in Colorado,
> alleged that two witnesses at his state and federal murder trials lied
> with the knowledge of prosecutors. He said one witness, Arkansas gun
> dealer Roger Moore, obtained explosives for McVeigh.
>
> In an affidavit submitted in February as part of Trentadue's
> lawsuit, Nichols said Ashcroft never responded to this 2004 letter
> offering to identity all parties who had a role in the bombing.
> Drawings by Nichols showing three versions of the bomb that blew up
> the Murrah Building.
>
> One is the configuration that McVeigh allegedly described to the
> wife of Army friend Michael Fortier of Kingman, Ariz. Lori Fortier
> said McVeigh illustrated the V-shaped bomb at her home by using
> soup cans to represent barrels containing fertilizer.
>
> Another drawing is the configuration of the bomb that Nichols says
> he constructed with McVeigh the day before the attack, which also was
> barrels in the shape of a V, with bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer
> soaked in fuel oil at the point.
>
> The third is a J-shaped pattern that McVeigh described in American
> Terrorist, an authorized book chronicling his life and the attack. In
> his February affidavit, Nichols said the book version was bigger than
> the one he built with McVeigh on April 18, 1995, and "displayed a level
> of expertise and sophistication which neither McVeigh nor I had
> in building a bomb."
> pmanson@sltrib,com
>
> --http://www.investigate911.com/
>
> --
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> Lawyer outlines a broader conspiracy in search for FBI documents on
> Oklahoma City bombing
> By Pamela Manson
>
> The Salt Lake Tribune
>
> Article Last Updated:04/17/2007 01:15:58 AM MDThttp://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5684544?source=email
>
> A Utah attorney alleges informants gathering information on Timothy
> McVeigh or his associates wathe plot to bomb the rned the FBI about
> Oklahoma City federal building but the agency took no action to stop the
> 1995 attack.
>
> Jesse Trentadue also says there were others involved in carrying
> out the bombing besides McVeigh and Terry Nichols, despite
> investigators' conclusion that they were the only ones responsible for
> the crime.
> The allegations are made in a brief filed Monday in a lawsuit by
> Trentadue, who believes his brother s death in a federal prison was
> linked to the bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI
> under the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), alleges that
> authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and
> guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.
> Trentadue noted in his brief that on Thursday, it will be 12 years
> since 168 people died in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Building in
> downtown Oklahoma City.
>
> "It will also soon be twelve years since the murder of Kenneth
> Michael Trentadue, and three years since Plaintiff started out to
> obtain proof that his brother . . . became the 169th victim of the
> Bombing when he was tortured to obtain information he did not have
> and eventually was strangled with a pair of plastic handcuffs," the
> lawyer wrote.
>
> The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah, which represents the FBI,
> received a copy of the brief late Monday afternoon and was still
> reviewing it.
> The FBI could not be reached for immediate comment. However,agency
> officials previously have denied any advance notice of the
> plot or mishandling of the investigation into the bombing. They
> also adamantly deny any wrongdoing in Kenneth Trentadue's death, which
> was ruled a suicide after several investigations.
> In the brief, Trentadue contends he has documented that at least
> seven informants were involved with McVeigh and his associates. The
> informants were allegedly participating in sting operations targeting a
> white-supremacist compound in Oklahoma and a gang suspected of
> robbing banks to fund attacks on government buildings. McVeigh, who
> was executed in 2001, had links to both, Trentadue says.
> He alleges that the sting involving the white-supremacist compound
> a Christian Identity settlement in Adair County, Okla., called Elohim
> City was a joint operation by the FBI and the Southern Poverty Law
> Center, a civil rights organization based in Alabama. He
> claims there is evidence that the SPLC, which heard about the
> impending attack from the informants, warned the FBI.
> SPLC director Mark Potok could not be reached Monday, but
> previously has said his group never had an informant or anyone else at
> the compound and did not know about the plot.
> Trentadue has asked U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball in Salt Lake
> City to allow him to conduct depositions of two men who likely know
> about the sting operations. They are Nichols, who is serving a life
> sentence for his part in the attack, and federal death row inmate David
> Paul Hammer, who was housed on the same prison tier as McVeigh for
> almost two years.
> Hammer spent much of that time "listening to McVeigh describe the
> bombing in minute detail, including the identities of others
> involved," according to the brief.
> Trentadue claims the depositions will prove that the FBI has failed
> to turn over all relevant documents.
> Lawyers for the FBI say the agency has made appropriate searches
> for documents requested by Trentadue. They also say judges in FOIA
> cases do not have the authority to order depositions.
> Kenneth Trentadue, who had served time for bank robbery, was
> arrested near San Diego in June 1995, two months after the bombing. He
> later was sent to the transfer center in Oklahoma City for an alleged
> parole violation.
> On Aug. 21, 1995, guards found Trentadue's blood-soaked body in his
> cell hanging from a noose made of torn bedsheets. Prison officials say
> the 44-year-old inmate committed suicide. However, the inmate's family
> insists that Trentadue was mistaken for John Doe No. 2, a suspect sought
> in connection with the bombing who turned out to be bank robber Richard
> Lee Guthrie.
> Jesse Trentadue claims his brother resembled Guthrie. Both men were
> about the same height and build, he says, and both had a tattoo of a
> dragon on the left arm. In addition, Kenneth Trentadue drove a Chevy
> pickup truck, the same kind of vehicle John Doe No. 2 was reported to be
> driving.
> Guthrie was eventually captured and struck a plea deal in 1996 on
> bank robbery charges. A few months later, he was found hanged in his
> cell in Kentucky in what was ruled a suicide.
> In Monday's filing, Trentadue includes a 2004 affidavit by former
> Cincinnati police Officer Matthew James Moning, who investigated
> suspected members of the Midwest Bank Robbery Gang from August 1993
> to June 1994. Moning claims he was told by a Secret Service agent
> that Guthrie killed himself after being told "that he was going to
> be executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing case."
> Moning writes in the affidavit that he believes a third member of
> the gang, Shawn Kenny, and his wife, Tabitha Kenny, were government
> informants being paid "by the F.B.I. and Secret Service for God knows
> what.' "
>
> Other exhibits attached to Trentadue's motion include:
> A declaration dated April 9, 2007, by Peter Kevin Langan, who was
> convicted along with Guthrie and other members of the Midwest
> ank Robbery Gang.
>
> Langan, currently an inmate in a federal prison in Illinois, claims he
> was coerced in 1993 into being an informant for the Secret
> Service. He claims that Guthrie told him that cohort Kevin McCarthy was
> John Doe No. 2 and then said, "Your young Mr. Wizard [Kevin
> McCarthy] took out the Murrah Building."
> McCarthy served five years in federal prison and was released on
> probation, according to law enforcement officials. His whereabouts are
> unknown.
>
> A 2004 letter from Nichols to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft
> offering to give information about other participants in the bombing.
> Nichols, who is housed in a federal penitentiary in Colorado,
> alleged that two witnesses at his state and federal murder trials lied
> with the knowledge of prosecutors. He said one witness, Arkansas gun
> dealer Roger Moore, obtained explosives for McVeigh.
>
> In an affidavit submitted in February as part of Trentadue's
> lawsuit, Nichols said Ashcroft never responded to this 2004 letter
> offering to identity all parties who had a role in the bombing.
> Drawings by Nichols showing three versions of the bomb that blew up
> the Murrah Building.
>
> One is the configuration that McVeigh allegedly described to the
> wife of Army friend Michael Fortier of Kingman, Ariz. Lori Fortier
> said McVeigh illustrated the V-shaped bomb at her home by using
> soup cans to represent barrels containing fertilizer.
>
> Another drawing is the configuration of the bomb that Nichols says
> he constructed with McVeigh the day before the attack, which also was
> barrels in the shape of a V, with bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer
> soaked in fuel oil at the point.
>
> The third is a J-shaped pattern that McVeigh described in American
> Terrorist, an authorized book chronicling his life and the attack. In
> his February affidavit, Nichols said the book version was bigger than
> the one he built with McVeigh on April 18, 1995, and "displayed a level
> of expertise and sophistication which neither McVeigh nor I had
> in building a bomb."
> pmanson@sltrib,com
>
> --http://www.investigate911.com/
>
> --
> Posted via a free Usenet account fromhttp://www.teranews.com
