Nichols Fingers FBI Agent Directing McVeigh in OKC Bombing By Name, Newspaper reported name of Potts

New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing

Nichols' claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge

weight of known evidence

Prison Planet | February 22, 2007

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that

Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official

are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not

act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were

complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday,

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking

FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the

plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the

original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in

U.S.

District Court in Utah.

The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal

government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss

of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.

Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been

sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security

numbers and dates of birth.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations.

The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also

declined comment.

The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse

Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in

an

Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue

had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof

cell at the time and autopsy photos http://www.apfn.org/apfn/OKC_Trentadue.htm

of his body showed he had been shocked with a

stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.

Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for

one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing accomplices

and in attempting to get him to talk Federal agents went too far and

then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.

Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, that

McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a fertilizer truck bomb,

is contradicted by a plethora of eyewitness account as well as

physical and circumstantial evidence.

[VIDEO]

- In early April 1995 a Ryder truck identical to the one used in the

bombing was filmed by a pilot

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/TRUCK/truck.html

during an overflight of of an area near Camp

Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma. A June 17th, 1997 Washington Post article

authenticates the photos as being exactly what they appear to

be, photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-

Braggs. Why were the military in possession of a Ryder truck

housed in a remote clandestine army base days before the Alfred P.

Murrah bombing?

- In a 1993 letter to his sister, McVeigh claimed that he was

approached by military intelligence and had joined an "elite squad of

government paid assassins." McVeigh often contradicted himself and

changed his story on a whim to fit in with the latest government

version of events. Is the Camp Grafton footage evidence of McVeigh's

enrollment in such a clandestine program?

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- Multiple reports of Arabs at the scene assisting McVeigh were

ignored and surveillance tapes were withheld under national security.

The likely reason for this was the fact that Bush senior and Clinton

were responsible for bringing in

http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_082593_iraq.html nearly 1,000

Iraqi soldiers captured by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian

Gulf War, some of whom were involved in the bombing.

- The FBI claimed McVeigh scouted the Alfred P. Murrah building weeks

before the bombing and yet on the morning of the attack he

stopped at a local gas station to ask directions, lending credibility

to the new claims that he was being controlled by other

conspirators and that the target of the bombing had been changed.

[VIDEO]

- Original reports of two explosions and several failed devices being

defused by bomb squads were buried by the establishment as the

official explanation that McVeigh acted alone was pushed. Scientific

analysis

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/PARTIN/okm.htm

conducted by General Benton K. Partin revealed core

columns were blown out from within the building and the extensive

damage to the Alfred P. Murrah building was completely

inconsistent with the explanation of a single and relatively weak

fertilizer truck bomb.

- Many eyewitnesses reported that bomb squads in full reaction gear

were seen around the building immediately before the blast.

Police officer Terence Yeakey http://www.apfn.org/APFN/yeakey.htm ,

who helped save dozens of victims, was one such witness.

Yeakey compiled extensive files on his observations but was later

found with his throat and wrists slashed having also been shot in the

head after he had told friends he was being followed by authorities.

- Several individuals received prior warning that the bombing was

about to take place. Bruce Shaw, who rushed to the Murrah building

to find his wife who was employed there with the Federal Credit Union,

testified that an ATF agent told him that ATF staff had been

warned on their pagers not to come to work that day.

- The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime

Bill and the demonization of the 'Patriot Movement', which

was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse

grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The

consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the

Patriot Movement before the turn of the century.

In December, we reported on a video

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/181206mcveighvideo.htm

that shows

McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specialized in explosives and

demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army.

The tape, released by film producer Bill Bean, was the subject of a

Hustler Magazine feature story.

Appearing last night on George Noory's Coast to Coast broadcast,

America's biggest late night radio show, Alex Jones said he

expected to talk to Jesse Trentadue imminently and it was further

suggested by Noory that he and Jones should travel to Nichols'

prison to interview him in person.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/okc_bombing_new_revelations_spotlight_fbi_involvement.htm

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The Trentadue Files

New documents offer details of the FBI's secret OKC investigation

INTELWIRE.com | February 21, 2007

J.M. Berger

Click here for the full documents and an index of their contents.

http://intelwire.egoplex.com/trentadueindex.html#docindex

UPDATES

9/21/2006:

The full collection of Trentadue documents can be found here

http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/2006-12-05-trentadue-2-docs.pdf . This

100-page PDF contains unredacted versions of some of the documents

below as well as previously unreleased documents.

12/5/2006:

The FBI has released two addtional documents, which can be viewed by

clicking here .

Original documents obtained by INTELWIRE cast additional light on

individuals and groups mentioned in the Trentadue documents.

Click here http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2006_08_27_exclusives.html for

documents related to Andreas Strassmeier and other OKC

figures involved in a Texas militia group. Click here

http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/#guthrie for documents related to Aryan

Republican

Army and Richard Guthrie.

Several newly revealed FBI documents provide the most dramatic

evidence to date that the Oklahoma City bombing was carried out by

a conspiracy involving more people than Timothy McVeigh and Terry

Nichols.

Attorney Jesse Trentadue has disclosed more than 50 pages of FBI

internal documents, which are at the center of a court battle over

the FBI's obligation to disclose information about the Oklahoma City

bombing investigation. All currently available documents are now

available to journalists and the public on this site.

The documents have been credibly authenticated during the course of

Trentadue's lawsuit. Some of the documents were provided to

Trentadue in redacted form by an undisclosed source. The lawsuit aims,

in part, to obtain the unredacted versions of this documents.

Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney, became involved in the lawsuit

after the death of his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, in federal

custody on Aug. 21, 1995. Kenneth Trentadue's death was initially

declared a suicide by prison officials, but the family discovered

signs of numerous injuries when preparing him for burial. The family

was awarded more than $1 million after winning a wrongful death

suit against the government.

Jesse Trentadue's lawsuit over the FBI's disclosure stems from a

belief that his brother was killed because of his resemblance to

Richard Lee Guthrie, a white supremacist and bank robber who has been

credibly linked to the Oklahoma City bombing by numerous

reports, including those from the Associated Press, J.D. Cash of the

McCurtain Gazette and In Bad Company

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=nabobsnet-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&path=http://www.amazo

n.com/gp/product/1555534929?v=glance%26n=283155%26n=507846%26s=books

%26v=glance , a 2001 book by criminology

professor Mark S. Hamm.

Guthrie was later apprehended by authorities. Just days before he was

scheduled to testify against one of his accomplices in the bank

robbery gang, Guthrie was found dead of a purported suicide in his

cell. His alleged means of suicide was hanging, the same cause of

death originally cited by prison officials for Kenneth Trentadue.

Trentadue has presented the documents linked below as part of an

effort under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to force the FBI

to disclose its internal files on the Oklahoma City bombing, including

unredacted versions of some of the cited documents. The FBI is

notoriously unwilling to provide information about the Oklahoma City

bombing in particular, and is also known for being generally

unresponsive to FOIA requests. Thousands of pages of documents

relevant to the OKC investigation were also improperly withheld by

the Justice Department until after the conviction of Timothy McVeigh,

whose attorneys had requested the documents in discovery.

In the course of Trentadue's lawsuit, the FBI has denied the existence

of some documents (including those linked below), but the

agency was forced to withdraw that claim after Trentadue presented

copies of the documents in court as proof of their existence.

Trentadue has not disclosed how he obtained the documents, but their

authenticity is no longer in dispute.

The FBI has subsequently attempted other legal strategies to avoid

disclosure, in full or in part, and the case is ongoing. For more

information on Jesse Trentadue and the lawsuit, click on the following

links to recent news articles:

Attorney Offers Document On OKC Warning

http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_315122423.html

Documents May Prompt Congressional Probe

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47447

Jesse Trentadue's Long Battle For Proof

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2589.shtml

Terror, Lies and Memos

http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2590.shtml

Testimony: ATF warned before OKC ( Alt. link )

http://www.mccurtain.com/headline.shtml

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47320

FBI Files Sealed Documents in OKC Suit

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46983

The documents are indexed in detail below, with links to facsimiles

which were provided to INTELWIRE by Jesse Trentadue. The

documents reveal that the FBI investigated links between the Oklahoma

City bombing and white supremacists (both individuals and

groups). The documents also flatly contradict various claims made by

the FBI in the years since the bombing.

The Trentadue Documents

The following documents can be viewed by clicking the links below, and

they can also be navigated in order from the first page

http://intelwire.egoplex.com/1trentadue.html .

With all of these documents, the important point to remember is that

the FBI has fought against disclosing them, despite various legal

obligations to do so, including as part of discovery in the federal

trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The author of this Web

site does not necessarily stipulate that every lead reported within

the documents is provably true, but many of them are highly credible

and all of them are worthy of further journalistic investigation.

The documents were filed as exhibits in Jesse Trentadue's FOIA lawsuit

against the FBI and have been credibly authenticated during

the course of those proceedings. They were provided to INTELWIRE by

Trentadue. The dates provided usually reflect the date the

document was created, but in some cases may reflect the date the

document was received and filed by FBI headquarters.

Some documents contain signficant redactions. The documents were

provided to Trentadue in redacted form by an undisclosed

source. One document has additional redactions added by INTELWIRE out

of privacy concerns. The specific redaction is noted in the

index below, and an unredacted version is available for mainstream

journalists interested in pursuing this story.

FBI TELETYPE, AUGUST 1995 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/1trentadue.html

White supremacists planned to bomb U.S. targets

Unnamed suspect may have assisted McVeigh

This redacted document is connected to the OKBOMB investigation

(the FBI's code name for the Oklahoma City bombing). The

teletype discusses a report from an undisclosed individual regarding

Elohim City, a white separatist compound in Vian, OK. Court

records confirm that McVeigh telephoned the complex shortly before the

OKC bombing, and numerous reports have suggested links

between McVeigh and Nichols, Elohim City and the Aryan Republican

Army, a bank robbery gang whose members were white

separatists who stated that the proceeds of their robberies would be

used to fund terrorist attacks on the U.S. government.

On page two http://intelwire.egoplex.com/2trentadue.html of the

document, an unidentified informant (name redacted) is quoted as

saying that unidentified individuals at Elohim City have explosive

devices which they intend to use on various targets around the U.S.

Meetings on such plans are described, but the names of the

participants have been redacted.

On page three of the document, the writer states that "[redacted

name] also indicated that [redacted name] may have assisted

McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing."

FBI TELETYPE, JANUARY 1996 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/4trentadue.html

McVeigh phone call to Elohim City, 4/17/1995

Suspect cited for relationship to McVeigh

4/17 call was to seek additional conspirators

This document dealing with BOMBROB, the bank robbery

investigation involving Richard Guthrie, has been significantly

redacted.

However, it states http://intelwire.egoplex.com/6trentadue.html that

"Information has been received through the Southern Poverty Law

Center that one [name redacted], aka [name redacted], [redacted]

telephone call from Timothy McVeigh, on or about 4/17/1995, two

days prior to the OKBOMB attack, when [name redacted], per a source at

the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound at

[redacted], OK. [name redacted] allegedly has a lengthy relationship

with Timothy McVeigh, one of the two indicted OKBOMB

defendants. The source of the SPLC advised that [name redacted] is

currently residing with [name redacted] in [redacted], N.C., and

plans to leave the U.S. via Mexico in the near future."

"Prior OKBOMB investigation determined that McVeigh had placed a

telephone call to Elohim City on 4/5/1995, a day that he was

believed to have been attempting to recruit a second conspirator to

assist in the OKBOMB attack (emphasis added by INTELWIRE)."

FBI TELETYPE, AUGUST 1996 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/8trentadue.html

McVeigh phone calls detailed

BOMBROB suspects summoned by phone from Phila.

On the second page http://intelwire.egoplex.com/9trentadue.html

of this teletype from FBI headquarters to the Philadelphia office

of the FBI (involved in the BOMBROB investigation), the following

passage appears:

"Information has been developed that [names redacted] were at

the home of [name redacted] Elohim City, Oklahoma, on 4/5/1995

when OKBOMB subject, Timothy McVeigh, placed a telephone call from

[redacted] residence to [redacted] residence in Philadelphia

division. BOMBOB subjects [names redacted] left [redacted] residence

on 4/16/1995 en route to Pittsburgh (sic), Kansas, where they

joined [name redacted] and Guthrie."

Some of the Aryan Republican Army bank robbery suspects lived in

Philadelphia. The ARA maintained a safe house in Pittsburg,

Kansas.

SUMMARY OF INFORMANT INFORMATION, 1/16/1996

http://intelwire.egoplex.com/13trentadue.html

SPLC informant information discussed

McVeigh meeting with unnamed suspect in 1993

As has been reported elsewhere, the Southern Poverty Law Center

(an independent organization that monitors hate group activity

in the U.S.) maintained an informant in Elohim City. The reports of

this informant have become the center of much ensuing controversy

regarding the OKC investigation. This OKBOMB document summarizes

information obtained through this avenue.

The document states: "With regard to [redacted] wherein Timothy

McVeigh met [redacted] being in November 1993, the

information was actually that it was approximately 18 months before

the bombing." The rest of the report appears to represent

speculation on the part of the informant, but certain sections are so

heavily redacted that it is impossible to know for sure.

FBI TELETYPE, 1/11/96 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/17trentadue.html

Redacted information on suspect links

This OKBOMB case teletype also discusses information obtained

from the SPLC. The document is OKBOMB related and refers

to relationships between individuals whose names have been redacted.

FBI TELETYPE, 1/20/96 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/18trentadue.html

Heavily redacted

McVeigh 4/17 call to suspect identified

Suspect reported to plan flight from country

This heavily redacted OKBOMB document contains extensive

information on individuals whose names have been excised.

According to the teletype , the FBI in Oklahoma "has received

information [redacted name] may be an associate of Timothy McVeigh.

(According to the SPLC informant,) "McVeigh attempted to

telephonically contact [redacted] on or about April 17, 1995, while

[name

redacted] was residing in Elohim City."

Massive portions of the page that follows are redacted but

appear to contain reports from numerous confidential witnesses (CW)

relating to the above claim. On the subsequent page , an informant

reports "[redacted passage] because things were 'too hot out

there.' CW understood that [redacted] was referring to the bombing of

the Oklahoma City federal building."

INFORMANT SUMMARY, 12/21/1995 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/24trentadue.html

Relationships to McVeigh discussed

McVeigh 4/17 call again discussed

Elohim City reaction to McVeigh arrest

Another OKBOMB case document referencing information from the

SPLC informant. According to the document, "In November

1993, [redacted] met Timothy McVeigh [long passage redacted] is

described as a white male, DOB (date of birth) [redacted] POB

(place of birth) [redacted]. He is a [redacted] who [redacted] with

help from [redacted] somewhere in [redacted] and [redacted].

Allegedly, McVeigh and [redacted] became associates because of their

common background in [redacted].

"[redacted] was [redacted] at Elohim City, Oklahoma. On 4/17/95,

McVeigh called Elohim City and spoke with a female who

answered the phone. He asked to speak to [redacted].

"Sources have told [redacted] that [redacted] Elohim City

anywhere from two days before the Oklahoma City bombing to two

weeks before the bombing. [redacted] latest information is that

[redacted] of Elohim City, saw McVeigh being led out of the

courthouse

on television and at that time, [redacted] was told to [redacted]."

Virtually all of the remaining document is redacted, except for

a notation that the information may be valuable to the FBI's legat

(legal attache) in London, who was investigating the background of an

individual whose name has been redacted.

FBI TELETYPE, FBI HQ TO LEGAT BONN, 1/26/1996

http://intelwire.egoplex.com/26trentadue.html

Andreas Strassmeir likely subject of document

Documents seized by OK police, contents redacted

Although this document has been heavily redacted, one can

reasonably speculate that it deals with German national Andreas

Strassmeir, an Elohim City resident who has been linked to the BOMBROB

suspects and also to the Oklahoma City investigation.

Strassmeir was the son of a high-ranking German government official,

according to British newspaper The Guardian

http://www.guardian.co.uk/mcveigh/story/0,7369,488262,00.html .

Strassmeir reportedly met McVeigh at a gun show in 1993.

The teletype says that [name redacted] may be an associate of

Timothy McVeigh," and reiterates several phrases from the

teletype of 1/20/96 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/18trentadue.html ,

suggesting both documents may primarily concern Strassmeir (who

reportedly fled the country in 1996).

Even more importantly in terms of furthering this investigation,

the teletype states that it provided to the FBI several documents

received from confidential sources regarding Elohim City. "Among these

documents were documents [redacted] relating to [redacted]

Some documents have the heading [redacted]. One document appears to be

a [redacted] dated [redacted]. One document [redacted]

is entitled [redacted]. This document certifies that [redacted]. The

course included instruction in [redacted]."

The remainder of the document is heavily redacted, often

inexplicably so, such as the removal of apparent references to Terry

Nichols and Michael Fortier, known subjects in the investigation whose

identities hardly need to be concealed.

TESTIMONY OF CAROL HOWE, APRIL 24, 1997 http://intelwire.egoplex.com/39trentadue.html

Informant gave ATF prior warning of attacks

Evidence of ATF warnings intentionally suppressed

The following sections of court transcripts record a sealed

hearing concerning ATF informant Carol Howe, a resident of Elohim

City

at the time of the bombing. This material was suppressed, apparently

with the explicit purpose of excluding it from consideration in the

trial of Timothy McVeigh.

The transcript indicates that Ms. Howe had previously been an

informant for the ATF and was re-activated after the Oklahoma City

bombing. Ms. Howe's ATF handler was questioned during the hearing. The

explosive portion of the transcript ( click here ) states that

Ms. Howe informed the ATF -- prior to the Oklahoma City bombing --

that Andy Strassmeir had threatened to bomb U.S. federal

buildings, and that Howe accompanied Elohim City residents on a trip

to Oklahoma City of unclear intent.

In the presiding judge's own words, "We have got evidence that

the ATF took a trip with somebody who said that buildings were

going to be blown up in Oklahoma City before it was blown up, or

something of that nature."

FBI FD-302 INFORMANT REPORT ON DAVID HOLLAWAY, 2/25/1997

http://intelwire.egoplex.com/50trentadue.html

Informant reports OKC suspicions regarding alleged white

supremacist

This report details an informant's conversation with Dave

Hollaway, a Special Forces veteran with alleged ties to white

supremacist

groups. The information in this report is unsubstantiated and should

not be construed as evidence of guilt, but the document is clearly

relevant to the OKBOMB investigation and is included here as such.

According to the document, Hollaway was associated with CAUSE, a

white supremacist foundation and had acted as an

intermediary on occasion between the federal government and militant

white supremacist groups. According to the informant, Hollaway

presented himself as a member of such groups.

The document states that Hollaway claimed to have spoken with

Timothy McVeigh two days before the Oklahoma City bombing.

Hollaway critiqued the placement of the truck bomb used in the attack

and provided details on the construction of such bombs,

according to the document.

FD-302, FBI INTERRGOGATION OF DAVID HOLLAWAY, 8/13/1996

http://intelwire.egoplex.com/52trentadue.html

FBI inteviews alleged white supremacist about alleged McVeigh

call

In this record of an FBI interview with Hollaway, Hollaway

appears to confirm the general points raised in the preceding

document,

including his affiliation with the CAUSE foundation. Hollaway said he

received a call on April 18, 1995, from an unidentified caller which

had threatening overtones in the context of the following day's

events. He claimed that he informed the FBI of the call via a tip

hotline

on April 20, 1995, and that FBI agents subsequently followed up with

him by phone.

INTELWIRE has removed some personally identifying information

about Hollaway from the original form due to privacy

considerations. Mainstream media outlets seeking more information may

contact INTELWIRE for the unredacted page.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/okc_bombing_trentadue_files_index.htm

==

In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 1/5)

J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

Editor's note: Scheduled for Denver, Colo., today, attorneys for the

family of the late Kenneth Michael Trentadue will renew their

long-running campaign for what they see as truth and justice, this

time in front of a federal appeals court, arguing that a loved one

was

tortured and murdered by members of the Department of Justice in

Oklahoma City.

Since the death of Kenneth Trentadue on Aug. 21, 1995, the government

has spent millions on legal expenses, trying to escape

responsibility for the suspicious death of an inmate left in the sole

custody of federal government employees. The family is trying to

collect the $1.1 million a judge awarded them for severe emotional

distress he said was caused by federal officials, but it represents

only a small portion of the damages they may someday receive if the

10th Circuit Court of Appeals orders a new trial in the case.

Recently, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue asked this newspaper

to review a substantial body of evidence he has collected

concerning his brother's mysterious and gruesome death - a death that

the government claims was a suicide.

Both the death and its aftermath were bizarre. So heavy were the

pressures following Trentadue's strange death that the investigating

Oklahoma medical examiner, terrified of retaliation from the Justice

Department, wrote the IRS, begging the agency to perform a

"protective audit" on him.

The Trentadue family believes a cover-up surrounding their loved one's

death reaches to persons serving at the highest levels of

government in the state of Oklahoma and the federal government at the

time of Kenneth Trentadue's death.

Recently the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch,

renewed his plea for the government to reveal what it knows

about what happened to Kenneth Trentadue after he was brought to

Oklahoma City in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. Among

the many questions family members are asking is: Did the government

bring Kenneth Trentadue to Oklahoma City and torture him

because federal agents mistakenly thought he was the elusive John Doe

2 - once the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the April

19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma

City?

Oklahoma City was the center of the news universe throughout much of

1995. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building

focused the world's attention on the state Capitol where journalists

from around the globe filed thousands of stories about the April 19

bloody terrorist attack that took the lives of 168 persons, 19 of them

children.

On August 10, 1995, indictments were handed down in Oklahoma City by a

federal grand jury.

After months of hearing witnesses and examining physical evidence, the

panel found there was sufficient evidence to charge Timothy

McVeigh and Terry Nichols as principals in a conspiracy to bomb the

Murrah federal building with a weapon of mass destruction.

Grand jurors also concluded there were "others unknown" who helped the

pair commit the terrible crime.

Forty-eight hours after the indictments were announced, Nichols and

McVeigh were brought into a packed federal courtroom for

arraignment on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy.

In the stately chamber only a block from where a 7,000-pound bomb

decimated much of downtown Oklahoma City, the two former

army buddies listened with heads bowed as the indictments were read.

Also present, over a hundred reporters scribbling notes -

occasionally looking up for a glimpse at the two most vilified men in

the United States.

The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City was the most

sensational crime in America since the assassination of President

Kennedy. The spectacle drew scores of the most recognized reporters

and journalists from around the world.

On Aug. 18, only a few miles away from ground zero of the attack, a

prisoner from California was very quietly whisked into Oklahoma

City on a jet aircraft belonging to the Department of Justice. There

were no news camera trucks or reporters there to record this event.

Moments after landing, Kenneth Trentadue and a number of other

prisoners were led in shackles into the U.S. Department of Justice

Bureau of Prisons' new $80 million Federal Transfer Center (FTC)

constructed for short-term confinement of some of the nation's most

dangerous criminals.

Whether the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing

case was also at the transfer center that day is a matter of

speculation.

Michael Fortier had been taken into federal custody on Aug. 7 after

his formal plea agreement was approved and signed by U.S.

Attorney Patrick Ryan and Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy.

Under heavy federal surveillance around the clock, Fortier had been

cooperating for months with the FBI - providing snippets of

information about McVeigh, Nichols, and their activities and

associates.

No evidence has been uncovered yet that Fortier ever mentioned to the

FBI the name of Kenneth Trentadue or his alias, Paul

Brockway - the name Trentadue used back in the days he robbed banks.

However, records obtained by this newspaper do show that FBI agents

during a long series of interviews on June 21 and 22, 1995,

asked Fortier about McVeigh's connections to bank robberies. Fortier

was vague about what he knew about McVeigh's associates and

any bank robbery plot.

McVeigh's sister, Jennifer, though, had already admitted under intense

pressure that she helped launder proceeds from at least one

bank robbery in which her brother participated.

Jennifer McVeigh told the FBI on May 2, 1995, that her brother had

been involved with a bank robbery group made up of like-minded

men. Like Fortier, she divulged no names.

Search for John Doe 2

In the frantic days after the bombing, the FBI issued worldwide alerts

focusing on a second subject present when the truck used to

carry the explosives to the front entrance of the Murrah building was

rented in central Kansas two days before the attack.

By the date of the arraignments of McVeigh and Nichols, though, no

further arrests

had been made by the FBI in the bombing case.

Appearing to step away from other suspects, the bureau seemed to be

making an about-face in the high-profile case, telling the media

that there may have been some confusion about a second subject at the

truck rental. Maybe there wasn't a John Doe 2 after all.

Justice Department officials told the press that the three witnesses

at the truck rental might have been confused when they were

originally interviewed.

The clear impression given by these high-ranking officials was that

the witnesses from Elliott's Body Shop recanted their earlier

statements regarding the presence of someone else with McVeigh when

the truck was rented.

And finding out otherwise was impossible for most reporters, because

the witnesses in Kansas were under intense pressure by the

FBI not to talk to the press. A full-time private security guard had

even been placed at the Junction City, Kan., business to keep the

media away.

As a result of all the secrecy, few outside the top rungs of the FBI

and Justice Department were aware that a number of suspects were

still at large.

However, senior level FBI agents working the case knew that the

witnesses at Elliott's Body Shop never wavered in their belief a

second subject was with McVeigh when the truck was rented.

And the bureau was certain that the man with McVeigh at the truck

rental was not Terry Nichols. Nichols had an ironclad alibi for that

time, placing him many miles away when the truck was rented.

The description

In the wake of the bombing, federal agents distributed a description

of the man who was present when the Ryder truck was in Kansas.

John Doe 2 was variously described to be muscular, with a dark

complexion, 185 pounds, approximately 5-foot-eight to five-foot-10

inches tall, and bearing a tattoo on his left arm. Several reports

stated that he could be driving an older model pickup truck.

According to an employee at Elliott's shop where the Ryder truck was

rented, John Doe 2 had a very unusual tattoo partially visible

beneath his T-shirt.

Mechanic Tom Kessinger told federal agents that it might have been a

tattoo of a serpent or dragon.

Kessinger explained his early dealings with the FBI in a 1996

interview with this reporter.

"I just saw part of a tattoo that I thought could have been the tail

of something below his shirt, John Doe 2's T-shirt. I told the FBI it

may have been the tail of something like a dragon or serpent. I could

only see a part of the tattoo. I was guessing about the part that

was hidden under the shirt I couldn't see."

Regardless of the fact the witnesses at the truck rental were holding

firm, by the time the much-anticipated murder and conspiracy

trials for McVeigh and Nichols began in Denver in 1997, the government

was working overtime trying to dismiss evidence that there

had ever been a John Doe 2, or any other suspects that might muddy

their cases against McVeigh and Nichols.

Also at this time, the Justice Department was under tremendous

pressure to explain one of the most bizarre murders to ever take

place in the federal prison system.

The Trentadue nightmare

According to Jesse Trentadue, his younger brother took a different

route after their parents in 1961 uprooted and moved the family from

the coal mining camps of West Virginia to the land of promise: sunny

southern California.

Jesse Trentadue sought a better life than his coal-mining father had

known. He would find it through a good education.

With an athletic scholarship to pave the way, the older brother

graduated from the University of Southern California and then Jesse

Trentadue went on to study law at the University of Idaho.

Kenneth Trentadue traveled a much different route to his fortunes: He

robbed banks.

In 1982, Kenneth Trentadue was arrested and sent to federal prison

where he served six years for his criminal lifestyle.

At the age of 37, he came out of prison with a new perspective. He set

out to get married, raise a family and take what legitimate jobs

he could find.

"My brother was pretty easy going about life," Jesse told this

newspaper. "His wife Carmen is Hispanic with family and property in

Mexico. Jesse took construction jobs in the states when the family

needed money. Much of the time they spent at Carmen's place in

Mexico or in San Diego."

Still responsible for living up to the terms of his parole agreement,

Kenneth Trentadue had a real problem with his parole officer - the

fellow wouldn't let him drink beer.

"We went through the administrative hearing process trying to get the

beer drinking ban lifted," Jesse Trentadue recalled.

"Kenny was working, married and a good provider. He just wanted to be

able to have a beer. They wouldn't let him. So in 1989, Kenny

just quit reporting to his parole officer and a warrant was issued. No

one came looking for him. And nothing came of it until 1995."

It was just weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing when a border guard

near San Diego stopped Kenneth Trentadue while he was

making one of his regular trips into the country for work. The

arresting officer said he thought Ken Trentadue was drunk.

Days later, on July 10, 1995, U.S. Marshals took Trentadue into

federal custody after locating him at the county jail on the Mexican

border.

Documents obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette show that the

arresting officer noted Trentadue's alias of Vance Paul Brockway,

his height, 5 feet, 8 inches; weight, 200 pounds; brown hair; brown

eyes and a dragon tattoo on his left arm - visible all the way to his

elbow.

Adding to the suspicious nature of the situation, Trentadue did not

divulge his wife's name or U.S. address - only providing authorities

his parents' address in Westminster, Calif., as a contact.

When this information was compiled, an unfortunate picture emerged:

Trentadue appeared to be an almost perfect match for the

subject of a worldwide manhunt: John Doe 2.

Making matters even more suspicious, Trentadue was driving a 1986

Chevy pickup very similar to the one the FBI believed John Doe 2

might be traveling in. And possibly sealing his fate, the arresting

officer noted that a check of the national database of criminal

records

turned up four hits for Trentadue, a.k.a Vance Paul Brockway - at

least one was for bank robbery.

Suddenly, after six years of being ignored by the authorities, Kenneth

Trentadue was arrested and flown all the way to Oklahoma City -

supposedly to attend a hearing for violating his parole agreement in

southern California.

His family now wonders if Trentadue might not have really been a

target for interrogation by agents working the OKBOMB case. But

whatever the reason for Trentadue's Aug. trip to Oklahoma City soon

turned to disaster.

On the morning of Aug. 21, the acting warden at the Oklahoma City

Federal Transfer Center, Marie Carter, called Trentadue's mother

to inform her that her son had committed suicide hours earlier.

During this brief conversation, Trentadue family members say the

prison official asked for permission to cremate the body.

Mrs. Trentadue said she would consult the rest of the family,

including the widow.

The acting warden responded, "He's not married?"

Stunned but suspicious, the mother of the deceased told the prison

official, "Yes, he's married and he also has a 2-month-old child

and his brother is a lawyer. We'll get back to you!"

Recently, Jesse Trentadue told this newspaper: "When we look back on

that first conversation with the acting warden, she didn't know

Kenny's real name or anything about him that was accurate. She seemed

to think she knew everything about someone that he wasn't.

Who the hell did she really think he was? Did someone kill him trying

to get him to confess to being involved with the Oklahoma

bombing?

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/kenneth_michael_trentadue_01.htm

In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 2/5)

J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

When two members of the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office arrived at

the sparkling new Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center

(FTC) at 7 a.m. on Aug. 21, 1995, what they found in the infirmary was

the body of a man badly bruised, bloody and his throat cut.

Guards and supervisors at the institution were calling it a suicide.

When questioned in more detail by the medical examiner's investigator,

Tammi Gillis, Federal Transfer Center personnel stood by their

story that the subject hanged himself while in isolation. One even

said he thought the inmate had tried to slash his throat first. It was

a

bizarre story even from the beginning.

Adding to the strange nature of the situation, prison officials

refused Gillis access to

the cell where the inmate was supposedly found - a clear violation of

Oklahoma law.

Gillis was told the inmate on the gurney, with his scalp split to the

skull in three places and throat slashed from ear to ear, had used

his bed sheet and a couple of tubes of toothpaste to commit suicide.

Numerous bruises on the inmate's feet, legs, torso, both arms and back

were passed off as self-inflicted, also, by the center staff.

Officials at the prison said they found the inmate hanging from a

grate mounted on the wall in his cell at 3 a.m., during a routine

inspection made by a guard on his regular rounds of the Special

Housing Unit (SHU).

The SHU at the Oklahoma City facility is a high-security unit where

prisoners are kept in solitary confinement, safe from other

inmates.

Inmate records obtained from the institution reflect that the subject

was strip searched before entering the SHU, 17 hours before his

death. At that time, guards only noted a single blister on one of the

inmate's feet and listed no other medical problems.

Inspection denied

After a closer physical examination of the body revealed a myriad of

bruises and serious wounds, Gillis once again demanded an

inspection of the cell for evidence of foul play. The investigator

suspected that the inmate had been subjected to a violent beating.

Federal Transfer Center officials responded that a federal

investigation was taking place and any investigation by the medical

examiner's office would have to be put on hold.

Voluminous evidence would later surface, however, that proved the

staff at the center were not investigating anything at the time of

the

incident.

No meaningful outside investigation was done that day by any federal

or state agency. The staff at the center, however, tried to turn

away outside investigators at the same time the scene of Trentadue's

death was undergoing changes.

Records later would show that even before Gillis arrived to

investigate the inmate's death, an Oklahoma City police officer was

also

turned away when he arrived to investigate why an ambulance was

initially called to resuscitate a suicide victim.

Like Gillis, the police were told federal officials would take care of

their own investigation. Later, investigators would discover that the

ambulance team had been turned away at the gates.

Denied unfettered access to the inside of the cell, Gillis was only

offered a brief look through the window on the door of the A709.

After a quick peek, the state investigator and her assistant left with

Trentadue's body.

Records obtained by this newspaper indicate the pair were only on

federal property 20 minutes that morning.

Trentadue held under

an alias at center

Documents obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette reveal a most

unusual fact: Kenneth Trentadue was not listed at the Oklahoma

City Federal Transfer Center by his real name. Instead, the inmate was

listed as Paul Vance Brockway - an alias Trentadue used

many years earlier.

And there would be more mysteries to emerge from the Oklahoma City

Federal Transfer Center as Trentadue's death came under

scrutiny.

According to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, his mother

received notification of his brother's death on the morning of Aug.

21

from Marie Carter, acting warden at the Oklahoma City facility.

"After they told my mother that Kenny had killed himself, they said

they wanted to cremate the body and send the ashes to us. My

mother refused," Trentadue told this newspaper.

"I knew this was all bull---! Kenny had been on the phone with us a

day or so earlier and was fine. He had no reason to kill himself. He

hadn't committed a serious crime. He had been working, taking care of

his family. He messed up with his parole officer, but was not

robbing banks. Kenny was just going to appear before a hearing on a

minor parole violation. He had a new baby and a wife to come

back home to. If he had to serve a few weeks on the parole violation,

no big deal."

Deep suspicions

The Trentadue family was not the only group to find the government's

suicide story hard to believe.

>From the outset, the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's staff was

highly skeptical.

The day following Trentadue's death, an Oklahoma City FBI agent

received a murder complaint from Kevin Rowland, the medical

examiner's lead investigator.

Once the medical examiner's office completed the Trentadue autopsy,

they found the suicide claim very unlikely.

According to former FBI special agent Jeff Jenkins, Rowland told him

in a telephone call that the inmate's wounds were inconsistent

with a suicide and were likely the result of a murder.

In a Dec. 6, 1995, internal FBI memo marked NOT APPROPRIATE FOR

DISSEMINATION TO THE PUBLIC, special agent Jenkins

advised his superiors that the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's official

findings would, "...likely rule that Trentadue's death was a

homicide."

The memo went on to advise the Asst. Special Agent in Charge of the

Oklahoma City FBI office that efforts were being made by

Federal Transfer Center personnel to avoid polygraph examinations

concerning the inmate's death.

"SA Jenkins stated that the new warden at the FTC will not allow any

of the guards/officials to take polygraph examinations. The

prison guards are represented by a strong union which will probably

also object to their members taking a polygraph."

Destroying evidence?

Material obtained by this newspaper reveals that destruction of

potential evidence by guards and officials at the FTC in Oklahoma

City

began in earnest on Aug. 21, 1995 - moments after Kenneth Trentadue

took his last breath.

As soon as the medical examiner's investigator left with Trentadue's

body, a team of guards and inmates began cleaning all the blood

from the cell, before the local FBI or Bureau of Prisons special

investigators flying in from Texas could conduct outside

investigations

as required by law.

In a sealed report of the investigation obtained by this newspaper,

the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of

Justice determined that staff members at the Oklahoma City Federal

Transfer Center immediately destroyed crime scene evidence

and several months later lied about what they had done to federal

investigators and grand jurors.

The man responsible for securing Trentadue's cell, Lt. Kenneth W.

Freeman, was charged under law with notifying the FBI of the

inmate's suspicious death so agents could investigate the scene.

Freeman was the special investigative supervisor responsible for

conducting the initial investigation of Trentadue's death.

The Office of Inspector General found that Freeman did not immediately

contact the FBI as the law required.

Instead, the OIG determined that center officials set about the

process of cleaning the cell after learning that a special team of

Bureau

of Prisons investigators were winging their way to Oklahoma City for

an internal investigation and could arrive at any moment.

Dated November 1999, the OIG report states:

"Later that morning (Aug. 21, 1995), Associate Warden Flowers decided

that Trentadue's cell should be cleaned. Flowers told the OIG

that when he asked Freeman during the morning of Aug. 21 if the FBI

had been notified, Freeman told him the FBI had been notified

and had instructed Freeman to send in a report about the incident. In

addition, Flowers said that he had been informed by the FTC

medical staff that Trentadue's blood count indicated a high

probability that he was HIV-positive. (In fact, he was not HIV-

positive.)

Flowers said he thought the cell should be cleaned promptly because of

the potentially infectious blood. ... Flowers said he therefore

instructed the FTC health unit to clean the cell.

"Although the center staff had been told by the medical examiner's

office that the condition of the body required them to immediately

report the incident to the FBI and be careful to treat the cell as a

crime scene and not disturb anything, the OIG report notes that

statements made by the center's special investigative supervisor, Lt.

Freeman, were not truthful about how he handled the situation.

However, contrary to Freeman's representations, he still had not

spoken to the FBI when he told Flowers he had. SA Jenkins stated

that Freeman did not speak with him until approximately 11:30 a.m.

Although Freeman falsely represented to the BOP and other

investigators about when he first spoke with Jenkins, Freeman

eventually admitted to the OIG that he had tried to contact Jenkins

early in the morning on Aug. 21, but he did not provide full details

about Trentadue's death. Although their recollections of the

conversation of Aug. 21 differed, Freeman said he told Jenkins that

FTC correction officers had found Trentadue hanging in a secure

cell, that Trentadue had committed suicide by hanging himself, and

that there was a little bit of blood. Jenkins said that Freeman did

not mention any blood and did not describe the extent of Trentadue's

injuries. ... At approximately 1 p.m., FTC medical staff and

inmates cleaned Trentadue's cell."

The OIG investigation record is replete with details that while staff

at the center mopped up blood from the floor and wiped away

bloodstains from walls and furniture, others removed the bed sheet

that Trentadue was supposed to have used to hang himself.

Also, most of the inmate's clothing would disappear that day. And

prior to the rush to clean the cell, some photographs and a

videotape were made of the scene and victim. Much of this evidence

would also disappear - some for years, some forever.

At 2 p.m., the Bureau of Prison's Psychological Reconstruction Team

landed in Oklahoma City to conduct an investigation that is

required under BOP rules of every suspected inmate suicide case.

But once on Federal Transfer Center grounds, investigators would be

shocked to discover the cell had been meticulously cleaned and

what little evidence remained in the cell had been rearranged by the

staff. The next day the team would leave Oklahoma City, unable to

conduct a meaningful investigation.

The OIG report notes that transfer center officials had been aware

since 8 a.m. that this special unit would be arriving that day.

Subsequent state and federal investigations concluded that by the time

the team of Bureau of Prisons investigators walked into the

facility, crucial evidence that might implicate others had been

removed or washed away.

While the methodical destruction of the crime scene evidence was going

forward, the Federal Transfer Center's psychologist, David

Wedeking, had a meeting with his superiors.

After the meeting, Wedeking prepared a suicide watch report stating

that Trentadue had been placed on a suicide watch shortly before

his death. It was a lie.

While under oath, later, Wedeking admitted the report was false and

that inmate Kenneth Trentadue was never under a suicide watch.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/kenneth_michael_trentadue_02.htm

In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 3/5)

J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

Shortly after the bloody body of the inmate was discovered hanging

from a bed sheet in a solitary confinement cell at the Oklahoma

City Federal Transfer Center (FTC), over a thousand miles away an

unsuspecting family received the shocking news that a loved one

had committed suicide.

The dead man's brother, lawyer Jesse Trentadue, recalled the events

for this newspaper.

"Acting Warden Marie Carter called my mother, Wilma Trentadue, at

about 7 a.m. West Coast time on Aug. 21, 1995, and said my

brother had committed suicide. She tried to get my mother to agree to

cremate the body and even offered to pay for the cremation.

"We now know that BOP (Bureau of Prisons) regulations do not allow for

cremation. My mother told Carter that funeral arrangements

would be the decision of Kenney's wife, Carmen. When Carter heard that

she went ballistic, telling my mother that Kenney did not

have a wife, my mother told Carter he did and that I would be

contacting Carter to deal with funeral arrangements and that I was a

lawyer.

"Carter lost it again, telling my mother that Kenney did not have a

brother. My mother said yes, he did. He had two brothers and a

sister."

"About 8 a.m. on the 21st, Trentadue continued: "My mother calls and

tells me about Kenney's death. I was stunned. I had just

spoken with him the evening of the 19th and nothing was unusual. I was

immediately suspicious. So, too, was everyone in our family. I

contacted Carmen to tell her about Kenney's death, but first called

Carmen's sisters so they would be there when the bad news

arrived. Kenney's son was about 2 months old at the time.

"Later that morning, I called Carter, who seemed very defensive. I

kept asking for an autopsy and she refused, saying that my mother

would have to ask for one in writing. I explained to Carter that I was

a lawyer and represented my family and that we wanted an

autopsy. She still refused. I had to prepare written authorizations

for an autopsy, have my mother sign them and send them to Carter."

What the Trentadue family and possibly even the acting warden at the

Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center didn't know was at that

moment an autopsy was already under way.

"We did not know that an autopsy was being done as Carter and I

spoke," Jesse Trentadue commented. "I don't believe she knew

either until later that day. After I told Carter we wanted my brother

sent home, not cremated, I subsequently learned that Carter called

the medical examiner's office to ask what she needed to do to have the

body cremated.

The medical examiner's investigator, Kevin Rowland, told Carter she

would need our consent. It was then Carter learned of the autopsy

and sent over a request to the medical examiner to do an autopsy that

had already been done. All Carter or anyone would say was

that he had killed himself."

When the medical examiner's report of investigation was eventually

released, Dr. Fred B. Jordan listed more than two-dozen injuries to

the body of Kenneth Trentadue. Literally from his feet to the top of

his head, Trentadue received a large number of bruises and

lacerations before he took his last breath, experts said.

What the experts don't agree on is who was responsible for the

remarkable condition of the inmate's body.

The Trentadue family and their experts say their loved one was

tortured and killed by the government.

The government takes the position the inmate spent a considerable

amount of time and energy trying to kill himself that night in the

cell.

Both theories are bizarre and both sides have spent huge sums trying

to establish the more convincing case.

During the autopsy examination, Dr. Jordan photographed three large

wounds to Trentadue's skull, injuries consistent with blows from

a blunt instrument.

Also, Jordon noted that Trentadue's throat had been slashed. All this

the staff at the center claimed the 44-year-old parole violator

accomplished before he supposedly hanged himself.

For nearly three years after this autopsy, the Oklahoma chief medical

examiner refused to issue a final determination on a cause of

death for Kenneth Trentadue. Instead, Dr. Jordan's initial finding was

death by asphyxiation, "cause unknown."

As a result of his reluctance to agree with prison officials that the

case was suicide and therefore close the investigation, as well as

the Trentadue family's belief that their loved one was murdered, years

of investigations have followed and millions of dollars expended

trying to determine, or some would say cover up, what really happened

that night in cell 709A at the FTC in Oklahoma City.

Federal refusal to cooperate

Within 24 hours of receiving the bloody and battered body for autopsy,

an assistant medical examiner called the Oklahoma City FBI

office and reported that Trentadue's injuries were consistent with a

beating and murder - certainly not a suicide. The medical

examiner's office also advised the FBI to treat Trentadue's death as a

homicide.

Special agent Jeff Jenkins recorded this exchange in an FBI report

obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette.

"A subsequent autopsy by the State Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City

revealed that (Trentadue) had been severely beaten prior to

death by asphyxiation."

However, the FBI was not talking to the family at this time and the

report was not available in the days following Trentadue's death.

Certainly the Bureau of Prisons had not disclosed the extent of the

inmate's injuries or any other information to the family regarding

Trentadue's final days in federal custody.

While officials declined to speak on the record, the body was sent

from the medical examiner's office over to a funeral home to be

prepared for viewing and burial. It would take a lot of makeup to make

the body presentable for the family.

Jesse Trentadue recalled the shipment of his brother home: "The body

did not arrive in Orange County until the next Saturday. I had to

repeatedly call the FTC to inquire about having the body shipped home.

It took almost a week and many heated conversations with the

FTC administration. They did not want to release him and I now know

why.

"I was in Utah preparing to travel to California when his body

arrived. My mother, sister and Kenney's wife went immediately to the

funeral home and took a camera.

"The body was heavily made up so that all of the injuries were

concealed except for his slashed throat. No makeup was placed on that

wound; in fact, the collar on his shirt was deliberately turned down

so that the wound was obvious. I suspect they wanted us to think

that was a rope burn."

He explained that the women took the most important step in the

family's early investigation. "My mother, sister and Carmen had

Kenney's clothes removed and took a few photographs. They took the

camera with them because we knew that if Kenney were

murdered, he would go down fighting. When I arrived, we spent the

better part of a morning photographing and videotaping Kenney's

body. It turned out that we have the only photographs of many of his

injuries."

The Trentadues contacted the Oklahoma chief medical examiner in

person. Jesse Trentadue explained the revelations that emerged

from this initial meeting.

"Jordan repeatedly told us this was a murder, but because the crime

scene had been destroyed, he had to list the manner of death as

unknown. He also looked my mother, Carmen and sister in the eye and

told them he would never go back on them."

Bitter after years of disappointments, Jesse Trentadue recalls now,

that, "In the weeks following Kenney's murder, I went to Dallas,

Texas, to speak with the BOP's regional counsel Michael Hood. Hood

told me the BOP investigation was over, but would not tell me

the conclusion.

"Hood also suggested that we had done the injuries to Kenney's body.

Hood made one comment that I will always remember. He said,

'The BOP, FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office - we're one big ole' Justice

Department.'"

Trentadue explained his frustrations further: "But when I would ask

for information, I was repeatedly told to file a Freedom of

Information

Act Request. No one within the government would talk to us. In fact,

on Sept. 1, 1995, the BOP issued a press release saying that

Kenney's death had tentatively been ruled suicide and that all of his

wounds were self-inflicted. That press release occurred after my

brother's body arrived home and after we had discovered the trauma."

The BOP's declaration of suicide had no legal effect. It was designed

for the media. The person with the authority of determine the

legal cause of death was with the Oklahoma medical examiner's office

and Dr. Jordan was still uncommitted.

Jesse Trentadue said the next step was to lobby senior members of the

Department of Justice.

"By early October, I had gone up the DOJ food chain to Janet Reno,

because by early October, I knew the BOP was lying to me, but I

did not suspect the FBI until later."

It would be more than two years before Trentadue would learn that the

FBI had not even inspected the death scene in a timely manner

after receiving the medical examiner's opinion that Kenneth

Trentadue's case should be worked as a homicide.

Instead, more damning information concerning the government's

questionable investigation of his brother's mysterious death would be

investigated and confirmed by Justice Department officials, but no one

would lose his job or be sent to prison as a result.

One sickening thing to the Trentadue family is the Office of Inspector

General's findings that Federal Transfer Center staff admitted

lying about important facts in the investigation. Beyond committing

perjury, some staff members admitted destroying evidence in the

case.

But most upsetting to the family are admissions from the staff that

key medical personnel were not allowed to administer first aid to

Trentadue during the first minutes after the inmate's body was found

hanging in his cell.

Jesse Trentadue calls the whole thing a murder and sloppy cover-up

that no one has paid for.

"My brother didn't have a reason to kill himself. Someone else did it.

We want to know who and why!"

The Ricks investigation

Oklahoma City FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Bob Ricks assigned the

gruesome homicide investigation to an agent known to complain

he couldn't bear to look at pictures of dead people.

In spite of the problem, Special Agent Jeff Jenkins was handed the

case by a man only days from leaving the bureau.

Ricks had been ordered out of the FBI by director Louis Freeh only

days after the Oklahoma City bombing.

Ricks now admits he stopped a raid that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco

and Firearms had planned on a group of radicals at Elohim

City, which Timothy McVeigh had contacted only a few days before the

bomb blast in Oklahoma City left 168 dead, including 19

children.

Like Ricks, Jenkins' days at the bureau were numbered. Evidence

suggests Jenkins' ouster was not linked to the bombing of the OKC

federal building but problems with his handling of the Trentadue

matter.

Instead of getting in his car and immediately going across town to the

Federal Transfer Center to begin the crucial process of

conducting interviews and collecting evidence while the scene was

fresh, Jenkins stayed in his Oklahoma City office that afternoon

and then went home to enjoy the next day off as paid leave.

While the official case agent lolled, inmates were transferred from

the Oklahoma City prison, and the cell where Trentadue is believed

to have died was scrubbed clean.

When Jenkins did finally manage to make it to the facility on the 24th

- a full three days after the death was reported - the agent failed

to conduct a single interview with an inmate, nor did he bother to

visit the cell where the body was reported to have been cut down.

Instead, Jenkins spent the first day at the facility with the acting

warden and two members of her staff. What evidence Jenkins

collected that day he later admitted was either placed under his desk

or left in his car trunk.

A subsequent investigation by the Office of Inspector General for the

Justice Department concluded that pieces of blood-soaked

evidence that might have yielded DNA evidence linking other persons to

the scene putrefied in the agent's car truck in the stifling hot

August Oklahoma weather.

By the time the evidence was turned over, it was impossible for the

FBI lab to examine for clues of other suspects.

The FBI said nothing of this to the family. Evidence of the

extraordinary amount of missing and destroyed evidence in the case

would

keep FBI and BOP officials busy explaining for years to come.

In the meantime, the Trentadue investigation languished.

However, brother Jesse refused to wait. The lawyer began a national

campaign for justice, lobbying hard for answers - coast to coast.

"I had to beg to get the FBI to send anyone to our home to interview

us about Kenney. Finally I flew to Oklahoma and took the pictures

of Kenney we took after the body arrived in Utah. I knew we were in a

lot of trouble when Jenkins said he couldn't look at those

pictures, because he might get sick."

Jordan frustrated, too

Eventually the Oklahoma medical examiner became enraged over the FBI's

lack of interest in the case, too. Like Jesse Trentadue, Dr.

Jordan decided to make some phone calls. He took his complaints to the

Justice Department, just as Trentadue had been doing.

Sensing the pressure, the case agent on the investigation, Jeff

Jenkins, wrote that he believed the medical examiner would eventually

conclude that Trentadue was murdered.

Jenkins notes' include references to the building media interest in

case. His handwritten notes obtained by this newspaper describe

Jordan to his superiors as: "A loose cannon." And in those same notes,

Jenkins warns:

"CBS been to ME's office earlier today. Talked to OC media rep and

gave standard no comment on pending investigation. Things at

the prison seem to have gotten a little more tense."

Certainly the FBI had plenty of reason to worry about the media and

Jordan.

On Dec. 20, 1995, Dr. Jordan placed in his file a memo obtained by

this newspaper listing efforts he was making to urge the FBI and

Bureau of Prisons to do a proper investigation into Trentadue's death.

In that memo, Jordan records that he placed a call to Eric Holder, a

top official in Janet Reno's Justice Department in Washington,

D.C.

After failing to make contact with Holder, Jordan notes that he turned

next to Asst. U.S. Attorney Arlene Joplin in Oklahoma City.

"I advised her that I felt the Trentadue problem was a very serious

issue that needed full support of the investigative services of the

FBI.

I believe I further informed her that last week in frustration I

indicated to Agent Hunt of the FBI that it could not help but occur to

me

that perhaps the FBI and the BOP were not expediting this

investigation as quickly as we hoped would occur. I told her I thought

there

was a very serious problem at the prison. And about that time, Mr.

Ryan (U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma) got on

the line. I indicated that I felt Mr. Trentadue had been abused and

tortured and at this point was not sure whether his death could be

explained as a suicide or whether it should be regarded as a

homicide."

The memo concludes with Jordan's comments that Ryan thanked him for

the information and gave him his pager number.

Festering with rage, Jesse Trentadue felt the local FBI had no

intention of conducting a real investigation, either. The Salt Lake

City

attorney began a letter-writing and information campaign of his own,

sometimes even plastering gory pictures of his bloodied brother at

bus stops and posting them on the Internet.

In a letter accusing the BOP of murder, Trentadue wrote: "I will

always be grateful to my brother for his love of life, great heart

and

strength. Had my brother been less of a man, your guards would have

been able to kill him without inflicting so much injury to his

body. Had that occurred, Kenney's family would forever have been guilt-

ridden over his death. Each of us would have lived with the pain

of thinking that Kenneth took his own life and that we had somehow

failed him. By making the fight he did for his life, Ken has saved

us that pain and God bless for having done so!"

After years to reflect on his ordeals and his loss, Trentadue told

this newspaper: "The only other thing I remember saying during those

early days was in response to a question: Why should people get upset

over the death of a parole violator?

"My response: Because the Department of Justice did this and that

should scare the hell out of every American. I believe that now

more than ever!"

In the next installment: The pace of state and federal government

investigations pick up only after the Trentadue family and the media

begin asking questions. At this same time, pressure is brought by

local and federal law enforcement officers on the state medical

examiner to change his opinion of Trentadue's death from "unknown" to

"suicide."

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In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 4/5)

J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

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Oklahoma's Chief Medical Examiner Fred Jordan, M.D., was a very

worried and nervous man for years after he autopsied the remains

of Kenneth Michael Trentadue.

In Jordan's long career as the state's medical examiner, his record

had been a good one - marked with accolades for his abilities in

solving many difficult cases. Indeed, Jordan was deeply respected by

his peers and the law enforcement community. Even most

criminal defense lawyers practicing in Oklahoma believed Jordan and

his staff labored hard and their work was unbiased.

The year of 1995, though, tested Jordan and his staff as few medical

examiners' offices around the world had ever been tested.

On April 19, Jordan's office arrived at the bombed-out remains of the

Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to begin the process of

establishing positive identifications for 168 bodies, several mangled

beyond easy recognition after a 7,000-pound truck bomb was set

off in front of the nine-story structure.

Shortly after that gruesome task was accomplished the bloody and

heavily bruised body of 44-year-old Kenneth Trentadue arrived from

the new Federal Transfer Center where the inmate had been held on a

parole violation for only three days.

Prison officials surmised the inmate had committed suicide by hanging,

after beating himself repeatedly and cutting his throat.

After carefully examining the body, Jordan was convinced it was

murder. And since the prison admitted Trentadue was being held in

isolation, away from other prisoners, that turned the spotlight

directly on federal workers.

Cover-up began immediately

At the very beginning of his department's investigation into the

August 21, 1995 brutal death, the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

refused to cooperate. An investigation by the Department of Justice

Inspector General would later report outrageous examples of

perjury and mishandling of evidence in the case.

Officials at the Oklahoma City Transfer facility initially barred

Jordan's investigators from the cell after the body of Kenneth

Trentadue

had been found. And the FBI later admitted their agents misplaced or

destroyed critical crime scene evidence they received in their

own investigation.

Jesse Trentadue summarized his experiences with federal agencies

working on the case this way: "The government accused everyone

of wrongdoing. They even accused us of having mutilated my brother's

body and said that Kenney killed himself because he had AIDS.

(Jordan proved he did not)

"The government was especially concerned about the Medical Examiner's

Office because of all the evidence we were providing to Dr.

Jordan and his Chief Investigator Kevin Rowland. In fact, we were the

source of most of the evidence the Medical Examiner's Office

received since they were getting nothing from the government, not even

cooperation.

"The government infiltrated and/or controlled every "investigation"

into Kenney's death. And if it could not do that, the government

interfered with those investigations by destroying or withholding

evidence. I now see that from the minute Kenney drew his last breath,

the government reacted like some wounded animal using all of its

strength, powers and resources to protect itself."

Jordan under pressure

Echoing many of Jesse Trentadues conclusions, during a rare interview

for Fox News on July 3, 1997, Dr. Jordan bared many of his

own concerns as he publicly called for a county grand jury

investigation into the bizarre death of Kenneth Trentadue. The

remarkable

exchange opens with Jordan pointing the finger at the federal

government as the culprit in the murder and cover-up.

"I think it's very likely he (Kenneth Trentadue) was murdered. I'm not

able to prove it. I have temporarily classified the death as

undetermined. You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room

as Mr. Trentadue was, soaked in blood covered with

bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene and the government of

the United State says no, you can't.

"They continue to prohibit us from having access to the scene of his

death, which is unheard of in 1997, until about five months later.

When we went in there and luminalled, it lit up like a candle because

blood was still present on the walls of the room after four or five

months. But at that point we have no crime scene, so there are still

questions about the death of Kenneth Trentadue that will never be

answered because of the actions of the U.S. government.

"Whether those actions were intentional - whether they were

incompetence, I don't know - it's not easy to communicate with the

federal government. It was botched. Or worse, it was planned."

The huge problem created for Jordan and his staff was the government

cleaned up the cell where they said Trentadue killed himself.

Adding to suspicions, the medical examiner's office was kept away from

the cell for five months.

During this time, Jordan would later learn that a huge volume of

evidence in the case disappeared and some was destroyed. Key

witnesses interviewed by authorities would subsequently admit they

initially lied to federal investigators and grand jurors, as well.

The victim's brother, Jesse Trentadue, told this newspaper, "At first

we pinned so much hope on Dr. Jordan. He seemed sincere to us.

He knew Kenny did not kill himself, but had been killed. He promised

our family he would never give up on this case until he found the

truth. He also promised he wouldn't buckle under all the pressure he

was being hit with by the FBI.

"The government desperately needed Jordan to rule the case a suicide

so they could stop a grand jury and other federal investigations

from going forward. Jordan was the key they needed to close the case

and he wouldn't."

In notes obtained by this newspaper, an FBI agent reported the medical

examiner's original stalwart position that Dr. Jordan was: "A

loose cannon." And furthermore, the FBI agent noted, "The medical

examiner's findings will probably rule that the death was a

homicide."

Growing nervous by FBI agents repeated attempts to pressure him to

rule the case a suicide, Jordan began contacting officials he

believed would help him.

After the United State's Attorney General, Janet Reno, refused his

phone calls, Jordan was successful in getting the attention of U.S.

Attorney Patrick Ryan in Oklahoma City, after he told one of Ryan's

assistants that Trentadue was probably killed by persons

employed by the federal government.

During the exchange, Ryan says he will pursue the case and take

Jordan's evidence before a federal grand jury.

Despite these assurances, the FBI continued to pressure the Oklahoma

medical examiner to declare the inmate's death a suicide.

Desperate for protection from government retribution, Jordan began

contacting other officials about his fears.

An example of Jordan's concerns are reflected in a letter to the

Commissioner of the IRS, Margaret Milner Richardson.

Dated Aug. 25, 1997, the letter said: "The requirements of my job as

Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Oklahoma are frequently

currently bringing me into an uncomfortable juxtaposition with the

United States Department of Justice.

"In order to protect myself from retribution I would like information

as to how to request a protective audit from your agency. By this, I

simply mean a standard audit in order to avoid having your agency used

to harass me as I proceed with my inquiries into a death that

directly relates to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City."

As the FBI continued to pressure Jordan in 1997, the medical examiner

also sought political protection from various elected officials.

Jordan fights back

In a handwritten memo obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette, Jordan

records the highpoints of a telephone call he made to North

Dakota's United States Senator Byron L. Dorgan.

Explaining his difficult situation, the ME noted that he told the

senator that the Trentadue investigation had been "... crippled by

the

federal government and that Kenneth Trentadue was at the least beaten

before he died." Jordan added: "Reiterated my lack of trust in

the federal government; things inside the D.C. beltway; and the Dept

of Justice in particular."

With the Department of Justice at this time mired in a civil suit with

the Trentadue family, lawyers in the civil division of the Justice

Department appeared to be using the FBI to pressure the medical

examiner into changing his ruling.

Also casting long shadows over the matter, several important senators

had begun asking questions and threatening Janet Reno with a

full Senate Judiciary Committee investigation to get to the bottom of

the case - if she couldn't do it herself.

The Trentadue case was catching national headlines and creating havoc

for DOJ officials.

Members of Reno's staff knew if Jordan would change his mind and rule

the death a suicide, then the mounting pressure for hearings

on Capitol Hill and the flood of news coverage about the terrible

situation would likely go away.

Responding to the mounting pressure, Dr. Jordan continued to complain

bitterly about his treatment. He went to the Oklahoma

Attorney General with his problems. Soon afterward a letter was sent

to the civil division of the Justice Department.

On March 12, 1998, Assistant Attorney General Patrick Crawley attacked

the Justice Department attacks on Jordan and his staff.

Crawley opens the letter commenting that he presumes the DOJ lawyer

also represents the FBI and the BOP.

Next Crawley launches into a vigorous assault on the US Justice

Department's handling of the Trentadue investigation.

In a sort of "Alice through the Looking Glass" set of circumstances,

truth has been obfuscated by the agendas of various federal

agencies (mostly your clients). Particularly in the initial, and most

critical, stage of the investigation when your clients (BOP and FBI)

muddled and meddled their way into the investigative operation. In the

process, your clients prevented the medical examiner from

conducting a thorough and complete investigation into the death,

destroyed evidence, and otherwise harassed and harangued Dr.

Jordan and his staff. The absurdity of this situation is that your

clients outwardly represent law enforcement or least some arm of

licit

government.

Nevertheless, even though the chances of ever establishing what really

happened in this case have essentially vanished, the medical

examiner will still look at any evidence that may be for the coming in

an attempt to uncover the real truth in the death of Kenneth

Trentadue. Whether the truth of the matter is that Kenneth Trentadue

severely beat and bruised himself, slashed his own throat, and

ultimately hung himself, which may displease the Trentadue family, or

that he was beaten and killed by others, which may displease

you and your clients, matters not to the medical examiner. The only

item of interest in the medical examiner's investigation is the truth

about what happened. It is, in the end, the task of the medical

examiner to establish the cause and manner of his death.

The real tragedy in this case appears to be the perversion of law

through chicanery and the misuse of public trust under the guise of

some aberrant for of federalism. In a succession of either illegal,

negligent, or just plain stupid acts, your clients succeeded in

derailing

the medical examiner's investigation and, thereby, may have obstructed

justice in this case. As more and more information is revealed

in this case, primarily through the efforts of Jesse Trentadue, it

appears that your clients, and perhaps others within the Department

of

Justice, have been abusing the powers of their respective offices. If

this is true, all Americans should be very frightened of your clients

and the DOJ. Undaunted, when you come into possession of the least

little tidbit of misinformation you immediately conclude that my

client, who has always acted honorably, has suddenly abandoned his

principles to improperly torpedo your group.

Summarizing the government's alleged interference in the ME's work,

the letter concludes: "The investigation into the death of Kenneth

Trentadue remains open. If it appears that the medical examiner is not

particularly fond of your clients and is openly distrustful of them

and the DOF, it is not any more curious than a similar posture taken

towards other criminal defendants who appear to have some

liability in a case under investigation and seek to intervene or

otherwise control the medical examiners' investigation. I will remind

you

that, to date, any and all evidence of wrongdoing points only to your

client or clients. This is true regardless of how Kenneth Trentadue

was killed. On the primary distinguishing features o this

investigation has been the power of possible suspects to interfere

with the

inquiry under color of law. Naturally we view any participation by

suspects in an investigation with no small amount of alarm and

distrust."

Clearly the medical examiner's office was holding firm at this time.

At least when Jesse Trentadue read the letter copied to his law

office he felt satisfied that he had at least one stalwart friend

fighting with him for truth and justice in the matter of his brother's

revolting

and mysterious death.

Then, suddenly Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy's office

entered the picture.

Macy and his staff came to the case on the guise they would conduct an

independent investigation into the death of Kenneth

Trentadue at the Federal Transfer Center.

The Patrick Ryan, the U.S. attorney charged with prosecuting the

OKBOMB case stepped encouraged Macy's intervention. The stated

rationale was that everyone seemed to have lost confidence in the

FBI's and BOP's handling of the matter.

In very little time after Macy's staff entered the case and began

visiting with the medical examiner, Dr. Jordan suddenly changed

Trentadue's cause of death from unknown to suicide.

Shocked by the sudden turnaround, Jesse Trentadue immediately began

researching who was behind getting Jordan to change his

findings to suicide. Trentadue was told the man was a former Oklahoma

City police detective named Tom Bevel.

Retained by District Attorney Bob Macy and assisted by Richard

Wintory, a prosecutor working in Macy's office, Tom Bevel was a

very well known local crime scene reconstruction expert.

Trentadue explained Bevels unusual relationship to the various parties

involved in the wide-ranging investigations and a wrongful death

civil suit, "The expert witness hired to help defend the government

against my family's civil suit, Tom Bevel was also being paid by the

government to help write the OIG's report of its official

investigation into the circumstances of my brother's death.

"More incredible still, Bevel was being paid by the government at the

same time he was part of the Macy/Wintory investigation!"

Thus, all the investigations were linked through one individual. A

crime scene investigator brought in by Bob Macy.

Tom Bevel would not only be charged with investigating the FBI, but he

also was working for the Justice Department's Inspector

General charged with investigating the FBI and Department of Justice's

handling of the case. Additionally Mr. Bevel was collecting

money from the Department of Justice to help them defend themselves

against the Trentadue's family's wrongful death civil suit.

Jesse Trentadue is bitter about what his family has experienced: "The

sick thing about the entire situation was the epidemic of

government corruption we dug up. Perjury, subornation of perjury,

threats to witnesses, destruction of evidence, fabrication of

evidence

and a _ _ _ _ pile of other acts of obstruction of justice! The

government obtained an order preventing me from reporting those

crimes

to either federal prosecutors or the Senate Judiciary Committee while

at the same time it was trying to indict me and my attorneys

with the perjured testimony of a secret FBI informant. Every

investigation was a sham."

And there would be much more evidence Trentadue would discover in his

quest for justice. Evidence that he feels reveals one of the

most carefully contrived cover-ups involving the Department of Justice

in modern history.

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In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 5/5)

J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

Oklahoma's chief medical examiner, issued a final amendment to his

autopsy report on Kenneth Michael Trentadue, an inmate whose

bloody and heavily bruised body had been found in a cell at Oklahoma

City's Federal Transfer Center in August of 1995.

The medical examiner's surprising report would dramatically affect

several ongoing criminal investigations and a multi-million dollar

civil

lawsuit brought by the inmate's family against the government.

Suddenly, after nearly three years of publicly stating doubts that

Trentadue had killed himself at the federal facility, Jordan reversed

that position and found that the inmate had indeed committed suicide

after all.

Many wonder today if someone was finally able to successfully pressure

Jordan to ignore evidence of the inmate's torture and murder

in order to arrive at the conclusion that Trentadue had killed

himself.

Trentadue's mysterious death occurred shortly after his arrest on the

Mexican border, south of San Diego, Ca. - only a few weeks

following the Oklahoma City bombing.

According to the arrest report, a border guard thought Trentadue might

have been drunk when he tried to enter the U.S. A check for

warrants turned up one. It was for failure to report to a parole

officer. Trentadue was a fugitive; albeit for a minor infraction.

While processing the arrest records, authorities noted Trentadue's

general physical description, including a very unusual dragon tattoo

on his left arm. The entire description was a good match for the

elusive John Doe 2, a subject the government had been searching for

in connection to the Oklahoma City bombing for several weeks.

Not long after turning in the arrest report, a team of U.S. marshals

arrived to pick up the prisoner. Days later, Trentadue arrived at the

Oklahoma City FTC for a parole hearing.

Within 24 hours of his arrival at the Federal Transfer Center,

Trentadue became agitated, federal agents claimed. He also commented

to guards that he was the subject of some kind of misidentification

and might be in trouble for something he had not done.

A Bureau of Prison (BOP) report notes: "I must have got stepped into

some real _ _ _ _ somewhere."

Records from the prison also indicate that Trentadue requested that he

be taken out of the general population in the prison and placed

in a unit reserved for inmates requiring special protection. His

family doubts he made such a request, though.

Brother Jesse Trentadue commented: "We spoke to Kenny during this time

frame, and he was very upbeat and said nothing about any

danger he might be in or wanting to be taken to solitary. I believe he

was surprised when he was taken to the Special Housing Unit

(SHU)."

Hours after records indicate Trentadue was taken to the SHU, he was

found hanging from strips of a bed sheet - bloody, severely

bruised, his throat slashed and dead.

Despite the condition of his body suggesting that he had been severely

beaten, Bureau of Prison transfer center workers and member

of the Oklahoma City FBI ruled the death a suicide.

Federal workers at the transfer center told investigators that the

inmate appeared to be asleep when his cell was checked at 2:38 a.m.

on the morning of Aug. 21, 1995. When a guard made his next rounds at

3 a.m., the BOP worker reported Trentadue was hanging by

a bed sheet and there was considerable blood visible on the body and

in the cell.

When two employees from the state medical examiner's office arrived to

conduct an investigation, they were told they could not

examine the cell. Supervisors at the facility said they would do their

own investigation.

Turning away the medical examiners from the scene was a clear

violation of state law - one of many abuses of authority the

remarkable case would experience. Subsequent investigations would

uncover several cases of perjury and the destruction or loss of 41

critical pieces of evidence.

For the next three years, Oklahoma's medical examiner kept the

investigation open - refusing to bow to pressure from the FBI and

BOP to call the inmate's death on federal property a suicide.

Trentadue's severely cut and heavily bruised body had convinced Dr.

Jordan and his staff that the individual had been severely beaten

before death.

Since the BOP said Trentadue was in the SHU without access to other

prisoners, naturally the guards at the institution were the

primary suspects. And those guards immediately cleaned the cell and

kept the medical examiner's office from doing its own

investigation of the scene.

Many around the nation believed this was a classic government crime

and cover-up. Embarrassing headlines sizzled with innuendos of

government misdeeds in the inmate's death.

Intense lobbying by the victim's brother, Jesse Trentadue, resulted in

a whole host of investigations being launched, including a federal

grand jury review of the case; a FBI investigation, a number of

inquiries from congressmen; an investigation by Oklahoma District

Attorney Bob Macy; and an investigation by the Inspector General for

the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.

At the center of the whirlwind was one man, the Oklahoma Medical

Examiner, Dr. Fred Jordan.

For nearly two years, Jordan refused to declare Trentadue's death

suicide. In fact, Jordan on more than one occasion publicly stated

the inmate was probably killed by members of the federal government

who destroyed the evidence, thus he was unable to prove that a

murder had taken place.

Flip-flop

After three years of complaining about pressure he was receiving to

declare Trentatue's injuries self-inflicted, in July of 1998, Jordan

did

just that and amended the manner of the inmate's mysterious death from

"unknown" to "suicide." Persons close to the case were

shocked.

Jordan said he was able to reach the conclusion on to the manner of

death after receiving new evidence from the Oklahoma City Police

Department. Jordan's new evidence consisted of what he called evidence

of a suicide note the BOP and FBI said they found written on

a wall in the prisoner's cell. The note, Jordan said, contained the

words, "My minds no longer it's friend. Love Ya, Familia."

Also, the medical examiner concluded that inmate Trentadue "had

experienced very stressful events (being in prison) and facing

significant losses (a possible prison sentence if his parole was

revoked) just before death."

Jordan concluded his press statement, saying he regretted that

"previous investigative problems" prevented an earlier resolution of

the

Trentadue case.

Responding to Jordan's assertions that Trentadue had experienced very

stressful events and faced a long stint in prison for violating his

parole agreement, his brother Jesse told this newspaper, "We obtained

actual copies of taped phone calls and transcripts of phone

calls between the family and Kenney. At no time while Kenney was

talking to us from the OKC/FTC did he exhibit anything to indicate

he was worried about anything.

"We all knew he might be in jail a few weeks and that would be it. The

government has absolutely no proof of a change in his feelings

and they have those same tapes and transcripts.

"And that so-called suicide note is nowhere to be seen now. It was

painted over by the feds. They say they took a picture of it before

painting over it. It was supposed to have been signed by someone name

Paul. After Kenney was killed, they came up with a photo

they said was of some writing on the wall of Kenney's cell. Later when

they found out my brother's name was Kenneth they decided

the writing was signed Familia and not Paul.

"The feds never could find a handwriting analyst that would positively

say the writing was my brother's. One expert said he couldn't rule

it out and that apparently was all Jordan needed at that point."

Jordan also pointed to assistance he received from retired Oklahoma

City police detective Tom Bevel in persuading him Trentadue had

inflicted the approximately two-dozen cuts and bruises visible on the

body, before the inmate cut his throat and hanged himself.

A homicide detective, Bevel was part of special investigation headed

by Oklahoma District Attorney Bob Macy's office. Macy had been

asked to conduct an independent investigation into the suspicious

death after public confidence in the FBI and the BOP was

diminished by so many charges that crucial evidence in the case had

been mishandled, lost, and even destroyed by those agencies.

Eventually the Trentadue family learned that Bevel was not only

working for the Macy investigation team, but had also received

payments for his services in the case from Department of Justice and

the DOJ's oversight agency, the Office of Inspector General.

Upon learning of this, the family also learned that a forensic

document investigator from Macy's team, J. Michael Hull, had also

agreed

to serve as an expert to the DOJ, the very agency Jesse Trentadue and

his family were suing for the wrongful death of their loved one.

Incensed, Trentadue wrote Macy a letter on Feb. 28, 2000, raising the

issue of conflict of interest. Included in the scolding

correspondence, Trentadue made the following charges and observations:

"I am writing to complain about the conduct of two of the officers who

assisted your Task Force in the investigation into the

circumstances of my brother's death. The individuals about whom I wish

to complain are Tom Bevel and J. Michael Hull. My complaint

concerns the fact that these individuals have agreed to serve as paid

expert witnesses for the targets of that investigation, in violation

of the common law, the Oklahoma Political Subdivisions Ethics Act and

your trust.

"While employed by the Oklahoma City Police Department, Bevel was

assigned to assist the FBI in its initial investigation into the

circumstances of my brother's death. Hull while employed as a forensic

documents examiner at the Oklahoma City police department,

likewise was part of your Task Force. As you know, the targets of that

investigation were the Department of Justice and their

personnel.

"On Aug. 5, 1998, (when the ink on your Task Force's Final Report was

still wet) we discovered that both Bevel and Hull have agreed

to serve as highly paid expert witnesses for the Department of Justice

and other defendants in my family's civil lawsuit who happen to

the be the same targets of your investigation.

"As part of your Task Force, Bevel and Hull had access to confidential

information including Grand Jury materials not available to me

or my attorneys. They are now willing to sell this information to the

highest bidder, which happens to be the targets of their

investigation. ..... Bevel and Hull's conduct in this matter is

analogous to that of a prosecutor or county attorney investigating

organized crime who resigns his or her position with the government

and goes to work for the mobsters who were the target of the

investigation. This is not permissible because the former government

employee takes with him or her confidential and other information

acquired in his or her role as a public official. .... How, for

example, can you contend that your investigation into the

circumstances of

my brother's death was thorough, fair and objective when two of the

key investigators have sold out to the targets of that investigation?"

Macy responded to Trentadue's charges in a letter dated March 13,

2000.

"The simple fact is that both Bevel and Hull during their tenure with

the Oklahoma City Police Department assisted our office in an

impartial and neutral way and rendered their opinions based on

physical evidence gathered from the scene and during the

investigation. Those results are reflected in our report concluding

that your brother tragically committed suicide. ... After both men

retired from the Oklahoma City Police Department and completed their

work in this investigation they were available to either party.

Not surprisingly, because their findings and the evidence on the case

are fundamentally inconsistent with your lawsuit, the government

chose to call them as witnesses. The only question remaining is this:

now that neither are being paid for their time by the Oklahoma

City Police Department and indeed are employed providing expert

consulting service to the litigants whether they should volunteer

their

time and expertise to the government or charge their standard fees."

Documents provided this newspaper show that Tom Bevel collected $125

per hour for his work in the case. J. Michael Hull's fees came

to $120 per hour, plus travel expenses.

During testimony in the Trentadue family's wrongful death lawsuit

against the Department of Justice, Tom Bevel took the stand and

admitted his many roles and employers in the wide-ranging

investigation.

After acknowledging he retired from the Oklahoma City Police

Department in May 1996, Bevel said he was contacted by the Macy's

Oklahoma County Task Force charged with investigating Trentadue's

death. Once his final report was completed, Bevel said,

"Sometime later (I) was asked to look at the case by the U.S. Office

of Inspector General and then ultimately the U.S. Justice

Department retained me."

Asked what he did for the DOJ and OIG, Bevel said, "To do an analysis

of the cell primarily to identify the most probable sequence of

events that would have taken place.... Whether or not there was any

evidence of additional people involved in the activities, was there

anything that would be consistent with homicide. I did not."

Family sickened by treatment

Jesse Trentadue is still very disturbed about his treatment by Macy's

former investigators on the task force established to investigate

his brother's death.

"We trusted Bob Macy and his people. We put all our faith and trust in

them. The record shows they took information about our case

against the DOJ, then they went to work for the other side," Trentadue

said.

Before going over to work for the DOJ and OIG, Tom Bevel wrote a

report for the Macy task force that would later serve as a framework

the government could use to excuse employees of the DOJ from liability

in Kenneth Trentadue's mysterious death.

Referred to as the "Wintory Report" after the assistant district

attorney Macy assigned to form a task force to investigate the death,

the heart of the report is Tom Bevel's crime scene reconstruction.

Bevel's conclusions about Trentadue's last moments of life are

summarized in a filing by the Trentadue family in federal court: "The

Government claim that after the guards last saw Trentadue alive and in

bed at 2:38 a.m., Trentadue used a pencil to write a suicide

note on the wall of his cell, but did not sign that note with his own

name. Next, he patiently tore a sheet into dozens of strips. He then

constructed a ligature from those strips of bed sheet. Once that

ligature was manufactured, Trentadue re-made his bed, climbed the

wall of his cell and wove the bed sheet rope into a metal vent above

his sink. Trentadue then tried to hang himself and was

momentarily successful, but the bed sheet rope broke. Trentadue fell,

hitting his buttocks on the edge of the sink but doing no injury to

his buttocks. The impact of his body on the sink caused Trentadue to

ricochet across the cell headfirst into the corner of a metal desk

at the end of his bunk, producing a major wound on his forehead.

The Government claim that the force of that impact caused Trentadue to

rotate 180 degrees and careen across his cell to smash his

head, leaving blood and hair on the wall of his cell and tearing

extensive areas of skin off of his back. Despite striking the desk

with

such force, the impact does not disturb a cup of coffee or any of the

papers on the desk.

"The Government claims that while unconscious from his two head

wounds, Trentadue rolled over on his stomach and bled profusely,

depositing large pools of blood on the floor of his cell. When

Trentadue regained consciousness, he attempted to get up but struck

the

back of his head on the metal stool attached to the desk, causing a

third major wound on the back of his head. This third blow to his

head further dazed Trentadue, who then crawled on all fours, with his

clothing smearing the blood on the floor.

"The Government claim that Trentadue finally got to his feet and

staggered around, leaving blood deposits on the walls and floor of

his

cell. He then stumbled to his bed and lay down to regain his senses.

After a while, Trentadue used two plastic toothpaste tubes or a

plastic knife to cut his throat, leaving blood on his pillowcase,

sheet and blanket. When that second suicide attempt failed, Trentadue

reconstructed the bed sheet and successfully hanged himself."

With the release of the Wintory Report containing Bevel's crime scene

reconstruction, a very important component of what some

inside government were calling the "Trentadue Mission" was complete.

Unaware that individuals at the highest places in government were

coordinating a roll-out plan designed to put an end to all of the

investigations into his brother's death, Jesse Trentadue had been open

and candid with certain federal investigators he trusted.

Later, during the process of discovery in the family's wrongful death

civil suit against the government, Trentadue was shocked to

discover that many of the agencies he had placed so much faith inwere

actually working with lawyers on the other side of their family's

civil suit.

"On Aug. 13, 1997," Trentadue said, "the (federal) Grand Jury

investigating Kenney's death finished with a no bill of indictment.

The

conclusion of the Grand Jury was kept secret by the Department of

Justice in order to put in place the roll-out plan which it termed

the

Trentadue Mission. Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder chaired

meetings at which the roll-out plan was developed. The DOJ

personnel in charge of implementing the roll-out plan likened it to

the invasion of Normandy."

While some might discount Trentadue's statements as conspiracy

mongering, evidence reviewed by this newspaper establishes the

allegations are completely accurate.

Contained in an Oct. 1, 1997 e-mail by Juliette Kayyem of the DOJ, she

writes on the subject she refers to as "The Trentadue

Mission."

"This is like coordinating the invasion of Normandy. We are on for

Monday; the declination memo is done. Is this OK with Eric's

schedule (I can call whoever does that.) I talked to Faith and she is

going to think about the best way to approach Hatch and possibly

Dorgan, and I will get back to you. Also, we will be contacting the

FBI and Jesse Trentadue at the same time (about 2 hours before the

press release.)

Contained in an internal Justice Department memorandum, dated Oct. 6,

1997, an official writes that there will be a press release

issued on the Trentadue investigation in days and that it will not

provide any key details regarding perjury uncovered in the case.

The memo states: There is a potential perjury issue regarding a BOP

paramedic who indicated he administered CPR to the deceased

Trentadue, and the evidence of a video- tape does not indicate CPR was

administered.

Altered evidence?

The BOP and FBI later said the video-tape referred to in the memo was

really blank, claiming the operator apparently did not know how

to use the equipment.

Jesse Trentadue commented later, "Obviously some people reviewed that

video-tape after Kenney's death and saw evidence on it that

was damaging to their case. So they erased it. If the tape showed

blood splatter on the walls, as some witnesses later testified, that

would establish someone beat Kenney. If there were strange footprints

in the blood, that could lead to who was involved killing him."

One test the FBI performed later did indeed confirm that the tape had

been erased. When the FBI found out the independent expert

found evidence of erasure, they fired that man and got an FBI lab tech

to do another test. He said the tape had not been erased.

"We couldn't call the original expert at our civil trial because he

suddenly died. So what video-tape is this memo discussing? This is

just one of many - many of lies they told and got caught," Trentadue

said.

On Oct. 9, 1997, the DOJ issued the much anticipated press release

from Washington D.C.

"After an extensive investigation into the death of Kenneth Michael

Trentadue at the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City, the

Justice Department's Civil Rights Division today ended its probe,

determining that the evidence does not establish a violation of

federal

criminal law."

Hoping to next derail a threatened investigation by the Senate

Judiciary Committee, FBI agents contacted Oklahoma U.S. Sen. Don

Nickles for his help halting what could be a very embarrassing

inquiry.

According to the Dec. 5, 1997, memo, FBI headquarters in Washington

D.C. approved the head of the Oklahoma office, SAC Thomas

Kuker, leading a delegation of FBI agents to Nickles' Tulsa office.

Kuker recorded the highlights.

"At the conclusion of the meeting, which lasted 1 hour and 45 minutes,

Senator Nickles advised that it would be his decision whether

a Senate inquiry into this matter would be conducted. He indicated

that, at this present point in time, he was not inclined to initiate

such a review."

After this meeting, word of some newly discovered evidence in the

case, including a videotape, came to the attention of Sen. Nickles.

Kuker returned to see the powerful Oklahoma lawmaker once again.

Referring to the Jan. 23, 1998 memoranda of the meeting, Kukor wrote:

"He (Sen. Nickles) was further advised that BOP officials

attempted to video-tape the cell the morning of his death, but that

the camera malfunctioned. ... At the conclusion of the meeting, Sen.

Nickles thanked the FBI representatives for the time and candidness

regarding his questions. He also intimated that he had a

significant role in determining whether this matter would require

Congressional review, and that such action would most likely not be

necessary."

End of the 'Trentadue Mission'

With the federal Grand Jury issuing a no bill; the DOJ's Civil Rights

Division out of the investigation; any congressional action on hold

as a result of Sen. Nickles' promised intervention; the Oklahoma

medical examiner throttled; and Macy's office officially out of the

picture with the issuance of the Wintory Report, the government only

had to survive an OIG investigation and the Trentadue family's

wrongful death lawsuit. Once again, Tom Bevel's bizarre theory of

Trentadue's death would play a central role in the outcome of both

matters.

Hoping to stop some of the negative publicity generated by the case,

the DOJ sought and obtained an order from the federal judge in

the civil suit barring the plaintiffs in their civil suit from sharing

any information with the media, or any branch of law enforcement,

evidence gained during discovery in their lawsuit that might implicate

federal employees with perjury, obstruction of justice or any other

criminal acts.

In a most unusual protective order from U.S. District Judge Tim

Leonard, filed Aug. 18, 1998, the judge noted, "While mindful that

information disclosed in this lawsuit may coincide with information

relevant to other proceedings in other forums, the court chooses not

to allow the discovery process to become a pipeline of information to

non-parties over whom the court has no supervision."

"We were muzzled," Trentadue said later.

"We were discovering FBI and BOP misconduct, but this judge prohibited

us from disclosing it to the media or the DOJ or the

Inspector General who was still investigating all this. It was

incredible! As a lawyer, I'm shocked that any judge would do anything

like

this."

In a 206-page report by the Office of Inspector General, the findings

of perjury and mishandling of crucial evidence are also remarkable.

On the subject of a critical original document establishing precisely

what evidence an FBI agent actually received from the Trentadue

death scene, the OIG report notes:

The most troubling example of the failure of the FBI/OKC to produce

documents to the OIG in a timely fashion concerned the original

handwritten green sheet, prepared by (FBI agent) Jenkins, regarding

the FBI evidence received from the MEO.

After receiving repeated assurances from the Oklahoma City FBI office

that they had the original green sheet prepared in the agent's

handwriting, OIG investigators requested it be turned over for

comparison with a copy supplied them earlier by the OKC FBI."

Incredibly, the SAC of the office, Thomas Kuker refused to turn it

over, responding to the investigators that the FBI, "must

respectfully

decline" to provide the original handwritten green sheet to the OIG

and that "the original would provide you with no more information

than the copy provided earlier."

Then, pressed from Washington D.C. headquarters to supply the

document, the OKC/FBI office suddenly discovered the green sheet

had been destroyed.

When the OIG tried to get to the bottom of the matter, the office

learned that the FBI/OKC Chief Division Counsel at the time, Henry

Gibbons, was showed the document by an evidence clerk shortly before

it disappeared.

The OIG report notes: "Our investigation was hampered by our inability

to interview former FBI/OKC Chief Division Counsel Henry

Gibbons about this matter. After he retired from the FBI on May 31,

1998, he refused our repeated requests to talk to the OIG.

And so the matter ended there.

Evidence that could have proven where some of the missing evidence in

the case had gone was destroyed, and the top lawyer for the

OKC/FBI office refused to discuss the matter with investigators.

Rather than seek indictments against those federal workers suspected

of altering evidence, destroying it or just lying about it, memos

and emails obtained by the Trentadue family reveal that department's

Inspector General, Glenn Fine, seemed pleased to end the whole

thing without criminal prosecutions.

Evidence turned over to this newspaper suggests Fine coordinated the

release of his final report with a press release expected from

Lee Radek, Chief of the Public Integrity Section of the Justice

Department. The Public Integrity Section of the DOJ is a special unit

assigned to investigate sensitive cases where federal employees were

found to have broken federal laws.

Indeed, several federal agents and federal employees were found by the

OIG's investigation to have committed perjury in the Trentadue

matter.

Rather than push for prosecutions against the wrongdoers -prosecutions

that could have brought resulted in plea-bargains and possibly

answers to what really happened to inmate Trentadue - evidence

suggests the inspector general helped close down the investigation

without seeking those indictments.

Dated Nov. 16, 1999, Fine sent an email to Lee Radek, head of the

Public Integrity Section - a man appointed to the position by

President Bill Clinton.

"Lee: Could you fax over the declination letter in the Trentadue case

or the standard language that is used in such a letter. I want to

get the wording right in our report. The number is (redacted) Thanks

Glenn

Radek responded the same day: The key words will be declined for

prosecutorial merit - our usual language. (emphasis added)

The Trentadue family is waiting a decision from the 10th Circuit Court

of Appeals in Denver on the issue of over $1million awarded them

after a judgment was awarded at the conclusion of their civil suit

against the government.

Salt Lake City attorney Trentadue says: "The government spent at least

$10 million defending themselves in this case. And even

though they lost, they won't pay us. Even when the government finds

that federal agents lied to us, no one is prosecuted or goes to

jail. They would like to put us all in jail for daring to question

them! What the hell is wrong with our system of justice? This case

shows

just how corrupt it is!"

Stung by this family's relentless pursuit of answers in the case and

their vehement charges of cover-up, FBI agents in Oklahoma and

elsewhere have been conducting a criminal investigation into Jesse

Trentadue for several years.

Contained in an internal FBI investigation report obtained by this

newspaper, a FBI agent discusses legal strategies to use against one

of their most vocal and effective critics.

"By listing Jesse Trentadue as subject of another investigation

(obstruction of justice), that would place him as a target on one of

investigations and this would also prohibit Jesse Trentadue from

testifying before the Federal Grand Jury."

The attorney is undeterred.

"We'll see who gets who," Trentadue laughs when discussing Justice

Department efforts to discredit his personal crusade.

http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/kenneth_michael_trentadue_05.htm

===

Nichols Fingers FBI Agent Directing McVeigh in OKC Bombing By Name

Newspaper reported name of Potts before court sealed documents

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

Prison Planet

Thursday, February 22, 2007

A newspaper reported the name of the FBI agent fingered by Terry

Nichols as having led Timothy McVeigh in carrying out the

Oklahoma City bombing before a Utah court order sealed documents

pertaining to the testimony.

Though subsequent reports do not mention the accused agent by name,

the Deseret Morning News identified the individual as Larry

Potts, who was the lead FBI agent during the Ruby Ridge confrontation

in 1992 and was also involved in the 51-day siege of the

Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.

Potts (pictured above) was forced to retire after it emerged that he

tried to cover-up an order to shoot anyone seen leaving the Weaver

cabin at Ruby Ridge.

"McVeigh said he believed Potts was manipulating him and forcing him

to 'go off script,' which I understood meant to change the target

of the bombing," Nichols stated.

Click here for our extended report on this explosive story and watch

this space for developments.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/220207fbiagent.htm

==

New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing

Nichols' claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge

weight of known evidence

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

Prison Planet

Thursday, February 22, 2007

New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that

Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official

are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not

act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were

complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building.

The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday,

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-

ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in

the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the

original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in

U.S. District Court in Utah.

The official and other conspirators are being protected by the

federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for

the

loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.

Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been

sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security

numbers and dates of birth.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the

allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also

declined comment.

In another report, the Deseret Morning News named the FBI agent at

Larry Potts, but that information has now been sealed by the

court.

Potts was no stranger to anti-government confrontations, having

been the lead FBI agent at Ruby Ridge in 1992, which led to the

shooting death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of separatist Randy

Weaver.Potts also was reportedly involved in the 51-day siege of the

Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993, which resulted in a

fire that killed 81 Branch Davidian followers.

Potts retired from the FBI under intense pressure and criticism

for the cover-up of an order to allow agents to shoot anyone seen

leaving the Weaver cabin at Ruby Ridge.

"McVeigh said he believed Potts was manipulating him and forcing

him to 'go off script,' which I understood meant to change the

target of the bombing," Nichols stated.

The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse

Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in

an

Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue

had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof

cell at the time and autopsy photos of his body showed he had been

shocked with a stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.

Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for

one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing accomplices

and in attempting to get him to talk Federal agents went too far and

then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.

Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, that

McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a fertilizer truck bomb,

is contradicted by a plethora of eyewitness account as well as

physical and circumstantial evidence.

- In early April 1995 a Ryder truck identical to the one used in the

bombing was filmed by a pilot during an overflight of of an area near

Camp Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma. A June 17th, 1997 Washington Post

article authenticates the photos as being exactly what they

appear to be, photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp

Gruber-Braggs. Why were the military in possession of a Ryder

truck housed in a remote clandestine army base days before the Alfred

P. Murrah bombing?

- In a 1993 letter to his sister, McVeigh claimed that he was

approached by military intelligence and had joined an "elite squad of

government paid assassins." McVeigh often contradicted himself and

changed his story on a whim to fit in with the latest government

version of events. Is the Camp Grafton footage evidence of McVeigh's

enrollment in such a clandestine program?

- Multiple reports of Arabs at the scene assisting McVeigh were

ignored and surveillance tapes were withheld under national security.

The likely reason for this was the fact that Bush senior and Clinton

were responsible for bringing in nearly 1,000 Iraqi soldiers captured

by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War, some of whom were

involved in the bombing.

- The FBI claimed McVeigh scouted the Alfred P. Murrah building weeks

before the bombing and yet on the morning of the attack he

stopped at a local gas station to ask directions, lending credibility

to the new claims that he was being controlled by other

conspirators and that the target of the bombing had been changed.

- Original reports of two explosions and several failed devices being

defused by bomb squads were buried by the establishment as the

official explanation that McVeigh acted alone was pushed. Scientific

analysis conducted by General Benton K. Partin revealed core

columns were blown out from within the building and the extensive

damage to the Alfred P. Murrah building was completely

inconsistent with the explanation of a single and relatively weak

fertilizer truck bomb.

- Many eyewitnesses reported that bomb squads in full reaction gear

were seen around the building immediately before the blast.

Police officer Terence Yeakey, who helped save dozens of victims, was

one such witness. Yeakey compiled extensive files on his

observations but was later found with his throat and wrists slashed

having also been shot in the head after he had told friends he was

being followed by authorities.

- Several individuals received prior warning that the bombing was

about to take place. Bruce Shaw, who rushed to the Murrah building

to find his wife who was employed there with the Federal Credit Union,

testified that an ATF agent told him that ATF staff had been

warned on their pagers not to come to work that day.

- The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime

Bill and the demonization of the 'Patriot Movement', which

was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse

grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The

consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the

Patriot Movement before the turn of the century.

In December, we reported on a video that shows McVeigh at a U.S.

military base that specialized in explosives and demolition training

over a year after he supposedly left the army. The tape, released by

film producer Bill Bean, was the subject of a Hustler Magazine

feature story.

Appearing last night on George Noory's Coast to Coast broadcast,

America's biggest late night radio show, Alex Jones said he

expected to talk to Jesse Trentadue imminently and it was further

suggested by Noory that he and Jones should travel to Nichols'

prison to interview him in person.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/february2007/220207okcrevelations.htm

On Feb 22, 10:21 am, carmen.su...@hotmail.com wrote:

> New OKC Revelations Spotlight FBI Involvement In Bombing

> Nichols' claim that McVeigh had government handlers supported by huge

> weight of known evidence

>

> Prison Planet | February 22, 2007

> Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

>

> New claims by Oklahoma City Bombing conspirator Terry Nichols that

> Timothy McVeigh was being steered by a high-level FBI official

>

> are supported by a plethora of evidence that proves McVeigh did not

> act alone and that authorities had prior warnings and were

>

> complicit in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah building.

>

> The Salt Lake Tribune reported yesterday,

>

> Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking

> FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the

>

> plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the

> original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in

> U.S.

>

> District Court in Utah.

>

> The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal

> government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss

>

> of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.

>

> Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been

> sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security

>

> numbers and dates of birth.

>

> The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations.

> The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also

>

> declined comment.

>

> The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by attorney Jesse

> Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth was tortured and beaten to death in

> an

>

> Oklahoma City federal prison in 1995. Authorities claimed Trentadue

> had committed suicide but he was being held in a suicide proof

>

> cell at the time and autopsy photoshttp://www.apfn.org/apfn/OKC_Trentadue..htm

> of his body showed he had been shocked with a

>

> stun gun, bruised, burned, sliced and then hung.

>

> Jesse Trentadue has amassed evidence that his brother was mistaken for

> one of Timothy McVeigh's alleged bombing accomplices

>

> and in attempting to get him to talk Federal agents went too far and

> then tried to instigate a cover-up of the murder.

>

> Just like 9/11, the official story of the Oklahoma City Bombing, that

> McVeigh alone carried out the attack using a fertilizer truck bomb,

>

> is contradicted by a plethora of eyewitness account as well as

> physical and circumstantial evidence.

>

> [VIDEO]

>

> - In early April 1995 a Ryder truck identical to the one used in the

> bombing was filmed by a pilot

>

> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/TRUCK/truck.html

> during an overflight of of an area near Camp

>

> Gruber-Braggs, Oklahoma. A June 17th, 1997 Washington Post article

> authenticates the photos as being exactly what they appear to

>

> be, photos of a Ryder truck in a clandestine base at Camp Gruber-

> Braggs. Why were the military in possession of a Ryder truck

>

> housed in a remote clandestine army base days before the Alfred P.

> Murrah bombing?

>

> - In a 1993 letter to his sister, McVeigh claimed that he was

> approached by military intelligence and had joined an "elite squad of

>

> government paid assassins." McVeigh often contradicted himself and

> changed his story on a whim to fit in with the latest government

>

> version of events. Is the Camp Grafton footage evidence of McVeigh's

> enrollment in such a clandestine program?

>

> The Internet leader in activist media - Prison Planet.tv . Thousands

> of special reports, videos, MP3's, interviews, conferences,

>

> speeches, events, documentary films, books and more - all for just 15

> cents a day! Click here to subscribe!

>

> - Multiple reports of Arabs at the scene assisting McVeigh were

> ignored and surveillance tapes were withheld under national security.

>

> The likely reason for this was the fact that Bush senior and Clinton

> were responsible for bringing in

>

> http://www.prisonplanet.com/news_alert_082593_iraq.htmlnearly 1,000

> Iraqi soldiers captured by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian

>

> Gulf War, some of whom were involved in the bombing.

>

> - The FBI claimed McVeigh scouted the Alfred P. Murrah building weeks

> before the bombing and yet on the morning of the attack he

>

> stopped at a local gas station to ask directions, lending credibility

> to the new claims that he was being controlled by other

>

> conspirators and that the target of the bombing had been changed.

>

> [VIDEO]

>

> - Original reports of two explosions and several failed devices being

> defused by bomb squads were buried by the establishment as the

>

> official explanation that McVeigh acted alone was pushed. Scientific

> analysis

>

> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/PARTIN/okm.htm

> conducted by General Benton K. Partin revealed core

>

> columns were blown out from within the building and the extensive

> damage to the Alfred P. Murrah building was completely

>

> inconsistent with the explanation of a single and relatively weak

> fertilizer truck bomb.

>

> - Many eyewitnesses reported that bomb squads in full reaction gear

> were seen around the building immediately before the blast.

>

> Police officer Terence Yeakeyhttp://www.apfn.org/APFN/yeakey.htm,

> who helped save dozens of victims, was one such witness.

>

> Yeakey compiled extensive files on his observations but was later

> found with his throat and wrists slashed having also been shot in the

>

> head after he had told friends he was being followed by authorities.

>

> - Several individuals received prior warning that the bombing was

> about to take place. Bruce Shaw, who rushed to the Murrah building

>

> to find his wife who was employed there with the Federal Credit Union,

> testified that an ATF agent told him that ATF staff had been

>

> warned on their pagers not to come to work that day.

>

> - The aftermath of the bombing led to the passage of the Omnibus Crime

> Bill and the demonization of the 'Patriot Movement', which

>

> was spreading like wildfire as opposition to federal government abuse

> grew following the events at Ruby Ridge and Waco. The

>

> consequences of the Oklahoma City Bombing effectively dismantled the

> Patriot Movement before the turn of the century.

>

> In December, we reported on a videohttp://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/december2006/181206mcveighvideo.htm

> that shows

>

> McVeigh at a U.S. military base that specialized in explosives and

> demolition training over a year after he supposedly left the army.

>

> The tape, released by film producer Bill Bean, was the subject of a

> Hustler Magazine feature story.

>

> Appearing last night on George Noory's Coast to Coast broadcast,

> America's biggest late night radio show, Alex Jones said he

>

> expected to talk to Jesse Trentadue imminently and it was further

> suggested by Noory that he and Jones should travel to Nichols'

>

> prison to interview him in person.

>

> http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/okc_bombing_new_revelations_spotl...

>

> ==

>

> The Trentadue Files

> New documents offer details of the FBI's secret OKC investigation

>

> INTELWIRE.com | February 21, 2007

> J.M. Berger

> Click here for the full documents and an index of their contents.http://intelwire.egoplex.com/trentadueindex.html#docindex

>

> UPDATES

>

> 9/21/2006:

>

> The full collection of Trentadue documents can be found herehttp://intelfiles.egoplex.com/2006-12-05-trentadue-2-docs.pdf. This

>

> 100-page PDF contains unredacted versions of some of the documents

> below as well as previously unreleased documents.

>

> 12/5/2006:

>

> The FBI has released two addtional documents, which can be viewed by

> clicking here .

>

> Original documents obtained by INTELWIRE cast additional light on

> individuals and groups mentioned in the Trentadue documents.

>

> Click herehttp://intelwire.egoplex.com/2006_08_27_exclusives.htmlfor

> documents related to Andreas Strassmeier and other OKC

>

> figures involved in a Texas militia group. Click herehttp://intelfiles.egoplex.com/#guthriefor documents related to Aryan

> Republican

>

> Army and Richard Guthrie.

>

> Several newly revealed FBI documents provide the most dramatic

> evidence to date that the Oklahoma City bombing was carried out by

>

> a conspiracy involving more people than Timothy McVeigh and Terry

> Nichols.

>

> Attorney Jesse Trentadue has disclosed more than 50 pages of FBI

> internal documents, which are at the center of a court battle over

>

> the FBI's obligation to disclose information about the Oklahoma City

> bombing investigation. All currently available documents are now

>

> available to journalists and the public on this site.

>

> The documents have been credibly authenticated during the course of

> Trentadue's lawsuit. Some of the documents were provided to

>

> Trentadue in redacted form by an undisclosed source. The lawsuit aims,

> in part, to obtain the unredacted versions of this documents.

>

> Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney, became involved in the lawsuit

> after the death of his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, in federal

>

> custody on Aug. 21, 1995. Kenneth Trentadue's death was initially

> declared a suicide by prison officials, but the family discovered

>

> signs of numerous injuries when preparing him for burial. The family

> was awarded more than $1 million after winning a wrongful death

>

> suit against the government.

>

> Jesse Trentadue's lawsuit over the FBI's disclosure stems from a

> belief that his brother was killed because of his resemblance to

>

> Richard Lee Guthrie, a white supremacist and bank robber who has been

> credibly linked to the Oklahoma City bombing by numerous

>

> reports, including those from the Associated Press, J.D. Cash of the

> McCurtain Gazette and In Bad Company

>

> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&tag=nabobsne....

>

> n.com/gp/product/1555534929?v=glance%26n=283155%26n=507846%26s=books

> %26v=glance , a 2001 book by criminology

>

> professor Mark S. Hamm.

>

> Guthrie was later apprehended by authorities. Just days before he was

> scheduled to testify against one of his accomplices in the bank

>

> robbery gang, Guthrie was found dead of a purported suicide in his

> cell. His alleged means of suicide was hanging, the same cause of

>

> death originally cited by prison officials for Kenneth Trentadue.

>

> Trentadue has presented the documents linked below as part of an

> effort under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to force the FBI

>

> to disclose its internal files on the Oklahoma City bombing, including

> unredacted versions of some of the cited documents. The FBI is

>

> notoriously unwilling to provide information about the Oklahoma City

> bombing in particular, and is also known for being generally

>

> unresponsive to FOIA requests. Thousands of pages of documents

> relevant to the OKC investigation were also improperly withheld by

>

> the Justice Department until after the conviction of Timothy McVeigh,

> whose attorneys had requested the documents in discovery.

>

> In the course of Trentadue's lawsuit, the FBI has denied the existence

> of some documents (including those linked below), but the

>

> agency was forced to withdraw that claim after Trentadue presented

> copies of the documents in court as proof of their existence.

>

> Trentadue has not disclosed how he obtained the documents, but their

> authenticity is no longer in dispute.

>

> The FBI has subsequently attempted other legal strategies to avoid

> disclosure, in full or in part, and the case is ongoing. For more

>

> information on Jesse Trentadue and the lawsuit, click on the following

> links to recent news articles:

>

> Attorney Offers Document On OKC Warninghttp://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_315122423.html

>

> Documents May Prompt Congressional Probehttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47447

>

> Jesse Trentadue's Long Battle For Proofhttp://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2589.shtml

>

> Terror, Lies and Memoshttp://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2590.shtml

>

> Testimony: ATF warned before OKC ( Alt. link )http://www.mccurtain.com/headline.shtmlhttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47320

>

> FBI Files Sealed Documents in OKC Suithttp://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46983

>

> The documents are indexed in detail below, with links to facsimiles

> which were provided to INTELWIRE by Jesse Trentadue. The

>

> documents reveal that the FBI investigated links between the Oklahoma

> City bombing and white supremacists (both individuals and

>

> groups). The documents also flatly contradict various claims made by

> the FBI in the years since the bombing.

>

> The Trentadue Documents

>

> The following documents can be viewed by clicking the links below, and

> they can also be navigated in order from the first page

>

> http://intelwire.egoplex.com/1trentadue.html.

>

> With all of these documents, the important point to remember is that

> the FBI has fought against disclosing them, despite various legal

>

> obligations to do so, including as part of discovery in the federal

> trials of Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols. The author of this Web

>

> site does not necessarily stipulate that every lead reported within

> the documents is provably true, but many of them are highly credible

>

> and all of them are worthy of further journalistic investigation.

>

> The documents were filed as exhibits in Jesse Trentadue's FOIA lawsuit

> against the FBI and have been credibly authenticated during

>

> the course of those proceedings. They were provided to INTELWIRE by

> Trentadue. The dates provided usually reflect the date the

>

> document was created, but in some cases may reflect the date the

> document was received and filed by FBI headquarters.

>

> Some documents contain signficant redactions. The documents were

> provided to Trentadue in redacted form by an undisclosed

>

> source. One document has additional redactions added by INTELWIRE out

> of privacy concerns. The specific redaction is noted in the

>

> index below, and an unredacted version is available for mainstream

> journalists interested in pursuing this story.

>

> FBI TELETYPE, AUGUST 1995http://intelwire.egoplex.com/1trentadue.html

>

> White supremacists planned to bomb U.S. targets

> Unnamed suspect may have assisted McVeigh

>

> This redacted document is connected to the OKBOMB investigation

> (the FBI's code name for the Oklahoma City bombing). The

>

> teletype discusses a report from an undisclosed individual regarding

> Elohim City, a white separatist compound in Vian, OK. Court

>

> records confirm that McVeigh telephoned the complex shortly before the

> OKC bombing, and numerous reports have suggested links

>

> between McVeigh and Nichols, Elohim City and the Aryan Republican

> Army, a bank robbery gang whose members were white

>

> separatists who stated that the proceeds of their robberies would be

> used to fund terrorist attacks on the U.S. government.

>

> On page twohttp://intelwire.egoplex.com/2trentadue.htmlof the

> document, an unidentified informant (name redacted) is quoted as

>

> saying that unidentified individuals at Elohim City have explosive

> devices which they intend to use on various targets around the U.S.

>

> Meetings on such plans are described, but the names of the

> participants have been redacted.

>

> On page three of the document, the writer states that "[redacted

> name] also indicated that [redacted name] may have assisted

>

> McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing."

>

> FBI TELETYPE, JANUARY 1996http://intelwire.egoplex.com/4trentadue.html

>

> McVeigh phone call to Elohim City, 4/17/1995

> Suspect cited for relationship to McVeigh

> 4/17 call was to seek additional conspirators

>

> This document dealing with BOMBROB, the bank robbery

> investigation involving Richard Guthrie, has been significantly

> redacted.

>

> However, it stateshttp://intelwire.egoplex.com/6trentadue.htmlthat

> "Information has been received through the Southern Poverty Law

>

> Center that one [name redacted], aka [name redacted], [redacted]

> telephone call from Timothy McVeigh, on or about 4/17/1995, two

>

> days prior to the OKBOMB attack, when [name redacted], per a source at

> the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound at

>

> [redacted], OK. [name redacted] allegedly has a lengthy relationship

> with Timothy McVeigh, one of the two indicted OKBOMB

>

> defendants. The source of the SPLC advised that [name redacted] is

> currently residing with [name redacted] in [redacted], N.C., and

>

> plans to leave the U.S. via Mexico in the near future."

>

> "Prior OKBOMB investigation determined that McVeigh had placed a

> telephone call to Elohim City on 4/5/1995, a day that he was

>

> believed to have been attempting to recruit a second conspirator to

> assist in the OKBOMB attack (emphasis added by INTELWIRE)."

>

> FBI TELETYPE, AUGUST 1996http://intelwire.egoplex.com/8trentadue.html

>

> McVeigh phone calls detailed

> BOMBROB suspects summoned by phone from Phila.

>

> On the second pagehttp://intelwire.egoplex.com/9trentadue.html

> of this teletype from FBI headquarters to the Philadelphia office

>

> of the FBI (involved in the BOMBROB investigation), the following

> passage appears:

>

> "Information has been developed that [names redacted] were at

> the home of [name redacted] Elohim City, Oklahoma, on 4/5/1995

>

> when OKBOMB subject, Timothy McVeigh, placed a telephone call from

> [redacted] residence to [redacted] residence in Philadelphia

>

> division. BOMBOB subjects [names redacted] left [redacted] residence

> on 4/16/1995 en route to Pittsburgh (sic), Kansas, where they

>

> joined [name redacted] and Guthrie."

>

> Some of the Aryan Republican Army bank robbery suspects lived in

> Philadelphia. The ARA maintained a safe house in Pittsburg,

>

> Kansas.

>

> SUMMARY OF INFORMANT INFORMATION, 1/16/1996http://intelwire.egoplex..com/13trentadue.html

>

> SPLC informant information discussed

> McVeigh meeting with unnamed suspect in 1993

>

> As has been reported elsewhere, the Southern Poverty Law Center

> (an independent organization that monitors hate group activity

>

> in the U.S.) maintained an informant in Elohim City. The reports of

> this informant have become the center of much ensuing controversy

>

> regarding the OKC investigation. This OKBOMB document summarizes

> information obtained through this avenue.

>

> The document states: "With regard to [redacted] wherein Timothy

> McVeigh met [redacted] being in November 1993, the

>

> information was actually that it was approximately 18 months before

> the bombing." The rest of the report appears to represent

>

> speculation on the part of the informant, but certain sections are so

> heavily redacted that it is impossible to know for sure.

>

> FBI TELETYPE, 1/11/96http://intelwire.egoplex.com/17trentadue.html

>

> Redacted information on suspect links

>

> This OKBOMB case teletype also discusses information obtained

> from the SPLC. The document is OKBOMB related and refers

>

> to relationships between individuals whose names have been redacted.

>

> FBI TELETYPE, 1/20/96http://intelwire.egoplex.com/18trentadue.html

>

> Heavily redacted

> McVeigh 4/17 call to suspect identified

> Suspect reported to plan flight from country

>

> This heavily redacted OKBOMB document contains extensive

> information on individuals whose names have been excised.

>

> According to the teletype , the FBI in Oklahoma "has received

> information [redacted name] may be an associate of Timothy McVeigh.

>

> (According to the SPLC informant,) "McVeigh attempted to

> telephonically contact [redacted] on or about April 17, 1995, while

> [name

>

> redacted] was residing in Elohim City."

>

> Massive portions of the page that follows are redacted but

> appear to contain reports from numerous confidential witnesses (CW)

>

> relating to the above claim. On the subsequent page , an informant

> reports "[redacted passage] because things were 'too hot out

>

> there.' CW understood that [redacted] was referring to the bombing of

> the Oklahoma City federal building."

>

> INFORMANT SUMMARY, 12/21/1995http://intelwire.egoplex.com/24trentadue.html

>

> Relationships to McVeigh discussed

> McVeigh 4/17 call again discussed

> Elohim City reaction to McVeigh arrest

>

> Another OKBOMB case document referencing information from the

> SPLC informant. According to the document, "In November

>

> 1993, [redacted] met Timothy McVeigh [long passage redacted] is

> described as a white male, DOB (date of birth) [redacted] POB

>

> (place of birth) [redacted]. He is a [redacted] who [redacted] with

> help from [redacted] somewhere in [redacted] and [redacted].

>

> Allegedly, McVeigh and [redacted] became associates because of their

> common background in [redacted].

>

> "[redacted] was [redacted] at Elohim City, Oklahoma. On 4/17/95,

> McVeigh called Elohim City and spoke with a female who

>

> answered the phone. He asked to speak to [redacted].

>

> "Sources have told [redacted] that [redacted] Elohim City

> anywhere from two days before the Oklahoma City bombing to two

>

> weeks before the bombing. [redacted] latest information is that

> [redacted] of Elohim City, saw McVeigh being led out of the

> courthouse

>

> on television and at that time, [redacted] was told to [redacted]."

>

> Virtually all of the remaining document is redacted, except for

> a notation that the information may be valuable to the FBI's legat

>

> (legal attache) in London, who was investigating the background of an

> individual whose name has been redacted.

>

> FBI TELETYPE, FBI HQ TO LEGAT BONN, 1/26/1996http://intelwire.egoplex.com/26trentadue.html

>

> Andreas Strassmeir likely subject of document

> Documents seized by OK police, contents redacted

>

> Although this document has been heavily redacted, one can

> reasonably speculate that it deals with German national Andreas

>

> Strassmeir, an Elohim City resident who has been linked to the BOMBROB

> suspects and also to the Oklahoma City investigation.

>

> Strassmeir was the son of a high-ranking German government official,

> according to British newspaper The Guardian

>

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/mcveigh/story/0,7369,488262,00.html.

> Strassmeir reportedly met McVeigh at a gun show in 1993.

>

> The teletype says that [name redacted] may be an associate of

> Timothy McVeigh," and reiterates several phrases from the

>

> teletype of 1/20/96http://intelwire.egoplex.com/18trentadue.html,

> suggesting both documents may primarily concern Strassmeir (who

>

> reportedly fled the country in 1996).

>

> Even more importantly in terms of furthering this investigation,

> the teletype states that it provided to the FBI several documents

>

> received from confidential sources regarding Elohim City. "Among these

> documents were documents [redacted] relating to [redacted]

>

> Some documents have the heading [redacted]. One document appears to be

> a [redacted] dated [redacted]. One document [redacted]

>

> is entitled [redacted]. This document certifies that [redacted]. The

> course included instruction in [redacted]."

>

> The remainder of the document is heavily redacted, often

> inexplicably so, such as the removal of apparent references to Terry

>

> Nichols and Michael Fortier, known subjects in the investigation whose

> identities hardly need to be concealed.

>

> TESTIMONY OF CAROL HOWE, APRIL 24, 1997http://intelwire.egoplex.com/39trentadue.html

>

> Informant gave ATF prior warning of attacks

> Evidence of ATF warnings intentionally suppressed

>

> The following sections of court transcripts record a sealed

> hearing concerning ATF informant Carol Howe, a resident of Elohim

> City

>

> at the time of the bombing. This material was suppressed, apparently

> with the explicit purpose of excluding it from consideration in the

>

> trial of Timothy McVeigh.

>

> The transcript indicates that Ms. Howe had previously been an

> informant for the ATF and was re-activated after the Oklahoma City

>

> bombing. Ms. Howe's ATF handler was questioned during the hearing. The

> explosive portion of the transcript ( click here ) states that

>

> Ms. Howe informed the ATF -- prior to the Oklahoma City bombing --

> that Andy Strassmeir had threatened to bomb U.S. federal

>

> buildings, and that Howe accompanied Elohim City residents on a trip

> to Oklahoma City of unclear intent.

>

> In the presiding judge's own words, "We have got evidence that

> the ATF took a trip with somebody who said that buildings were

>

> going to be blown up in Oklahoma City before it was blown up, or

> something of that nature."

>

> FBI FD-302 INFORMANT REPORT ON DAVID HOLLAWAY, 2/25/1997http://intelwire.egoplex.com/50trentadue.html

>

> Informant reports OKC suspicions regarding alleged white

> supremacist

>

> This report details an informant's conversation with Dave

> Hollaway, a Special Forces veteran with alleged ties to white

> supremacist

>

> groups. The information in this report is unsubstantiated and should

> not be construed as evidence of guilt, but the document is clearly

>

> relevant to the OKBOMB investigation and is included here as such.

>

> According to the document, Hollaway was associated with CAUSE, a

> white supremacist foundation and had acted as an

>

> intermediary on occasion between the federal government and militant

> white supremacist groups. According to the informant, Hollaway

>

> presented himself as a member of such groups.

> The document states that Hollaway claimed to have spoken with

> Timothy McVeigh two days before the Oklahoma City bombing.

>

> Hollaway critiqued the placement of the truck bomb used in the attack

> and provided details on the construction of such bombs,

>

> according to the document.

>

> FD-302, FBI INTERRGOGATION OF DAVID HOLLAWAY, 8/13/1996http://intelwire.egoplex.com/52trentadue.html

>

> FBI inteviews alleged white supremacist about alleged McVeigh

> call

>

> In this record of an FBI interview with Hollaway, Hollaway

> appears to confirm the general points raised in the preceding

> document,

>

> including his affiliation with the CAUSE foundation. Hollaway said he

> received a call on April 18, 1995, from an unidentified caller which

>

> had threatening overtones in the context of the following day's

> events. He claimed that he informed the FBI of the call via a tip

> hotline

>

> on April 20, 1995, and that FBI agents subsequently followed up with

> him by phone.

>

> INTELWIRE has removed some personally identifying information

> about Hollaway from the original form due to privacy

>

> considerations. Mainstream media outlets seeking more information may

> contact INTELWIRE for the unredacted page.

>

> http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/okc_bombing_trentadue_files_index...

>

> ==

>

> In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 1/5)

>

> J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

>

> Editor's note: Scheduled for Denver, Colo., today, attorneys for the

> family of the late Kenneth Michael Trentadue will renew their

>

> long-running campaign for what they see as truth and justice, this

> time in front of a federal appeals court, arguing that a loved one

> was

>

> tortured and murdered by members of the Department of Justice in

> Oklahoma City.

>

> Since the death of Kenneth Trentadue on Aug. 21, 1995, the government

> has spent millions on legal expenses, trying to escape

>

> responsibility for the suspicious death of an inmate left in the sole

> custody of federal government employees. The family is trying to

>

> collect the $1.1 million a judge awarded them for severe emotional

> distress he said was caused by federal officials, but it represents

>

> only a small portion of the damages they may someday receive if the

> 10th Circuit Court of Appeals orders a new trial in the case.

>

> Recently, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue asked this newspaper

> to review a substantial body of evidence he has collected

>

> concerning his brother's mysterious and gruesome death - a death that

> the government claims was a suicide.

>

> Both the death and its aftermath were bizarre. So heavy were the

> pressures following Trentadue's strange death that the investigating

>

> Oklahoma medical examiner, terrified of retaliation from the Justice

> Department, wrote the IRS, begging the agency to perform a

>

> "protective audit" on him.

> The Trentadue family believes a cover-up surrounding their loved one's

> death reaches to persons serving at the highest levels of

>

> government in the state of Oklahoma and the federal government at the

> time of Kenneth Trentadue's death.

> Recently the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Orrin Hatch,

> renewed his plea for the government to reveal what it knows

>

> about what happened to Kenneth Trentadue after he was brought to

> Oklahoma City in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. Among

>

> the many questions family members are asking is: Did the government

> bring Kenneth Trentadue to Oklahoma City and torture him

>

> because federal agents mistakenly thought he was the elusive John Doe

> 2 - once the subject of a nationwide manhunt after the April

>

> 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma

> City?

>

> Oklahoma City was the center of the news universe throughout much of

> 1995. The bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building

>

> focused the world's attention on the state Capitol where journalists

> from around the globe filed thousands of stories about the April 19

>

> bloody terrorist attack that took the lives of 168 persons, 19 of them

> children.

>

> On August 10, 1995, indictments were handed down in Oklahoma City by a

> federal grand jury.

> After months of hearing witnesses and examining physical evidence, the

> panel found there was sufficient evidence to charge Timothy

>

> McVeigh and Terry Nichols as principals in a conspiracy to bomb the

> Murrah federal building with a weapon of mass destruction.

>

> Grand jurors also concluded there were "others unknown" who helped the

> pair commit the terrible crime.

> Forty-eight hours after the indictments were announced, Nichols and

> McVeigh were brought into a packed federal courtroom for

>

> arraignment on multiple counts of murder and conspiracy.

>

> In the stately chamber only a block from where a 7,000-pound bomb

> decimated much of downtown Oklahoma City, the two former

>

> army buddies listened with heads bowed as the indictments were read.

> Also present, over a hundred reporters scribbling notes -

>

> occasionally looking up for a glimpse at the two most vilified men in

> the United States.

> The bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City was the most

> sensational crime in America since the assassination of President

>

> Kennedy. The spectacle drew scores of the most recognized reporters

> and journalists from around the world.

>

> On Aug. 18, only a few miles away from ground zero of the attack, a

> prisoner from California was very quietly whisked into Oklahoma

>

> City on a jet aircraft belonging to the Department of Justice. There

> were no news camera trucks or reporters there to record this event.

> Moments after landing, Kenneth Trentadue and a number of other

> prisoners were led in shackles into the U.S. Department of Justice

>

> Bureau of Prisons' new $80 million Federal Transfer Center (FTC)

> constructed for short-term confinement of some of the nation's most

>

> dangerous criminals.

> Whether the government's star witness in the Oklahoma City bombing

> case was also at the transfer center that day is a matter of

>

> speculation.

> Michael Fortier had been taken into federal custody on Aug. 7 after

> his formal plea agreement was approved and signed by U.S.

>

> Attorney Patrick Ryan and Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy.

>

> Under heavy federal surveillance around the clock, Fortier had been

> cooperating for months with the FBI - providing snippets of

>

> information about McVeigh, Nichols, and their activities and

> associates.

> No evidence has been uncovered yet that Fortier ever mentioned to the

> FBI the name of Kenneth Trentadue or his alias, Paul

>

> Brockway - the name Trentadue used back in the days he robbed banks.

>

> However, records obtained by this newspaper do show that FBI agents

> during a long series of interviews on June 21 and 22, 1995,

>

> asked Fortier about McVeigh's connections to bank robberies. Fortier

> was vague about what he knew about McVeigh's associates and

>

> any bank robbery plot.

> McVeigh's sister, Jennifer, though, had already admitted under intense

> pressure that she helped launder proceeds from at least one

>

> bank robbery in which her brother participated.

> Jennifer McVeigh told the FBI on May 2, 1995, that her brother had

> been involved with a bank robbery group made up of like-minded

>

> men. Like Fortier, she divulged no names.

>

> Search for John Doe 2

>

> In the frantic days after the bombing, the FBI issued worldwide alerts

> focusing on a second subject present when the truck used to

>

> carry the explosives to the front entrance of the Murrah building was

> rented in central Kansas two days before the attack.

>

> By the date of the arraignments of McVeigh and Nichols, though, no

> further arrests

> had been made by the FBI in the bombing case.

> Appearing to step away from other suspects, the bureau seemed to be

> making an about-face in the high-profile case, telling the media

>

> that there may have been some confusion about a second subject at the

> truck rental. Maybe there wasn't a John Doe 2 after all.

>

> Justice Department officials told the press that the three witnesses

> at the truck rental might have been confused when they were

>

> originally interviewed.

> The clear impression given by these high-ranking officials was that

> the witnesses from Elliott's Body Shop recanted their earlier

>

> statements regarding the presence of someone else with McVeigh when

> the truck was rented.

> And finding out otherwise was impossible for most reporters, because

> the witnesses in Kansas were under intense pressure by the

>

> FBI not to talk to the press. A full-time private security guard had

> even been placed at the Junction City, Kan., business to keep the

>

> media away.

>

> As a result of all the secrecy, few outside the top rungs of the FBI

> and Justice Department were aware that a number of suspects were

>

> still at large.

> However, senior level FBI agents working the case knew that the

> witnesses at Elliott's Body Shop never wavered in their belief a

>

> second subject was with McVeigh when the truck was rented.

>

> And the bureau was certain that the man with McVeigh at the truck

> rental was not Terry Nichols. Nichols had an ironclad alibi for that

>

> time, placing him many miles away when the truck was rented.

>

> The description

>

> In the wake of the bombing, federal agents distributed a description

> of the man who was present when the Ryder truck was in Kansas.

>

> John Doe 2 was variously described to be muscular, with a dark

> complexion, 185 pounds, approximately 5-foot-eight to five-foot-10

>

> inches tall, and bearing a tattoo on his left arm. Several reports

> stated that he could be driving an older model pickup truck.

> According to an employee at Elliott's shop where the Ryder truck was

> rented, John Doe 2 had a very unusual tattoo partially visible

>

> beneath his T-shirt.

> Mechanic Tom Kessinger told federal agents that it might have been a

> tattoo of a serpent or dragon.

>

> Kessinger explained his early dealings with the FBI in a 1996

> interview with this reporter.

> "I just saw part of a tattoo that I thought could have been the tail

> of something below his shirt, John Doe 2's T-shirt. I told the FBI it

>

> may have been the tail of something like a dragon or serpent. I could

> only see a part of the tattoo. I was guessing about the part that

>

> was hidden under the shirt I couldn't see."

> Regardless of the fact the witnesses at the truck rental were holding

> firm, by the time the much-anticipated murder and conspiracy

>

> trials for McVeigh and Nichols began in Denver in 1997, the government

> was working overtime trying to dismiss evidence that there

>

> had ever been a John Doe 2, or any other suspects that might muddy

> their cases against McVeigh and Nichols.

>

> Also at this time, the Justice Department was under tremendous

> pressure to explain one of the most bizarre murders to ever take

>

> place in the federal prison system.

>

> The Trentadue nightmare

>

> According to Jesse Trentadue, his younger brother took a different

> route after their parents in 1961 uprooted and moved the family from

>

> the coal mining camps of West Virginia to the land of promise: sunny

> southern California.

> Jesse Trentadue sought a better life than his coal-mining father had

> known. He would find it through a good education.

> With an athletic scholarship to pave the way, the older brother

> graduated from the University of Southern California and then Jesse

>

> Trentadue went on to study law at the University of Idaho.

>

> Kenneth Trentadue traveled a much different route to his fortunes: He

> robbed banks.

> In 1982, Kenneth Trentadue was arrested and sent to federal prison

> where he served six years for his criminal lifestyle.

> At the age of 37, he came out of prison with a new perspective. He set

> out to get married, raise a family and take what legitimate jobs

>

> he could find.

> "My brother was pretty easy going about life," Jesse told this

> newspaper. "His wife Carmen is Hispanic with family and property in

>

> Mexico. Jesse took construction jobs in the states when the family

> needed money. Much of the time they spent at Carmen's place in

>

> Mexico or in San Diego."

>

> Still responsible for living up to the terms of his parole agreement,

> Kenneth Trentadue had a real problem with his parole officer - the

>

> fellow wouldn't let him drink beer.

> "We went through the administrative hearing process trying to get the

> beer drinking ban lifted," Jesse Trentadue recalled.

> "Kenny was working, married and a good provider. He just wanted to be

> able to have a beer. They wouldn't let him. So in 1989, Kenny

>

> just quit reporting to his parole officer and a warrant was issued. No

> one came looking for him. And nothing came of it until 1995."

>

> It was just weeks after the Oklahoma City bombing when a border guard

> near San Diego stopped Kenneth Trentadue while he was

>

> making one of his regular trips into the country for work. The

> arresting officer said he thought Ken Trentadue was drunk.

> Days later, on July 10, 1995, U.S. Marshals took Trentadue into

> federal custody after locating him at the county jail on the Mexican

>

> border.

> Documents obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette show that the

> arresting officer noted Trentadue's alias of Vance Paul Brockway,

>

> his height, 5 feet, 8 inches; weight, 200 pounds; brown hair; brown

> eyes and a dragon tattoo on his left arm - visible all the way to his

>

> elbow.

>

> Adding to the suspicious nature of the situation, Trentadue did not

> divulge his wife's name or U.S. address - only providing authorities

>

> his parents' address in Westminster, Calif., as a contact.

> When this information was compiled, an unfortunate picture emerged:

> Trentadue appeared to be an almost perfect match for the

>

> subject of a worldwide manhunt: John Doe 2.

> Making matters even more suspicious, Trentadue was driving a 1986

> Chevy pickup very similar to the one the FBI believed John Doe 2

>

> might be traveling in. And possibly sealing his fate, the arresting

> officer noted that a check of the national database of criminal

> records

>

> turned up four hits for Trentadue, a.k.a Vance Paul Brockway - at

> least one was for bank robbery.

>

> Suddenly, after six years of being ignored by the authorities, Kenneth

> Trentadue was arrested and flown all the way to Oklahoma City -

>

> supposedly to attend a hearing for violating his parole agreement in

> southern California.

> His family now wonders if Trentadue might not have really been a

> target for interrogation by agents working the OKBOMB case. But

>

> whatever the reason for Trentadue's Aug. trip to Oklahoma City soon

> turned to disaster.

>

> On the morning of Aug. 21, the acting warden at the Oklahoma City

> Federal Transfer Center, Marie Carter, called Trentadue's mother

>

> to inform her that her son had committed suicide hours earlier.

> During this brief conversation, Trentadue family members say the

> prison official asked for permission to cremate the body.

> Mrs. Trentadue said she would consult the rest of the family,

> including the widow.

> The acting warden responded, "He's not married?"

> Stunned but suspicious, the mother of the deceased told the prison

> official, "Yes, he's married and he also has a 2-month-old child

>

> and his brother is a lawyer. We'll get back to you!"

>

> Recently, Jesse Trentadue told this newspaper: "When we look back on

> that first conversation with the acting warden, she didn't know

>

> Kenny's real name or anything about him that was accurate. She seemed

> to think she knew everything about someone that he wasn't.

>

> Who the hell did she really think he was? Did someone kill him trying

> to get him to confess to being involved with the Oklahoma

>

> bombing?

>

> http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/kenneth_michael_trentadue_01.htm

>

> In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 2/5)

>

> J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

>

> When two members of the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's office arrived at

> the sparkling new Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center

>

> (FTC) at 7 a.m. on Aug. 21, 1995, what they found in the infirmary was

> the body of a man badly bruised, bloody and his throat cut.

>

> Guards and supervisors at the institution were calling it a suicide.

>

> When questioned in more detail by the medical examiner's investigator,

> Tammi Gillis, Federal Transfer Center personnel stood by their

>

> story that the subject hanged himself while in isolation. One even

> said he thought the inmate had tried to slash his throat first. It was

> a

>

> bizarre story even from the beginning.

> Adding to the strange nature of the situation, prison officials

> refused Gillis access to

>

> the cell where the inmate was supposedly found - a clear violation of

> Oklahoma law.

> Gillis was told the inmate on the gurney, with his scalp split to the

> skull in three places and throat slashed from ear to ear, had used

>

> his bed sheet and a couple of tubes of toothpaste to commit suicide.

> Numerous bruises on the inmate's feet, legs, torso, both arms and back

> were passed off as self-inflicted, also, by the center staff.

>

> Officials at the prison said they found the inmate hanging from a

> grate mounted on the wall in his cell at 3 a.m., during a routine

>

> inspection made by a guard on his regular rounds of the Special

> Housing Unit (SHU).

>

> The SHU at the Oklahoma City facility is a high-security unit where

> prisoners are kept in solitary confinement, safe from other

>

> inmates.

>

> Inmate records obtained from the institution reflect that the subject

> was strip searched before entering the SHU, 17 hours before his

>

> death. At that time, guards only noted a single blister on one of the

> inmate's feet and listed no other medical problems.

>

> Inspection denied

>

> After a closer physical examination of the body revealed a myriad of

> bruises and serious wounds, Gillis once again demanded an

>

> inspection of the cell for evidence of foul play. The investigator

> suspected that the inmate had been subjected to a violent beating.

>

> Federal Transfer Center officials responded that a federal

> investigation was taking place and any investigation by the medical

>

> examiner's office would have to be put on hold.

>

> Voluminous evidence would later surface, however, that proved the

> staff at the center were not investigating anything at the time of

> the

>

> incident.

>

> No meaningful outside investigation was done that day by any federal

> or state agency. The staff at the center, however, tried to turn

>

> away outside investigators at the same time the scene of Trentadue's

> death was undergoing changes.

>

> Records later would show that even before Gillis arrived to

> investigate the inmate's death, an Oklahoma City police officer was

> also

>

> turned away when he arrived to investigate why an ambulance was

> initially called to resuscitate a suicide victim.

>

> Like Gillis, the police were told federal officials would take care of

> their own investigation. Later, investigators would discover that the

>

> ambulance team had been turned away at the gates.

>

> Denied unfettered access to the inside of the cell, Gillis was only

> offered a brief look through the window on the door of the A709.

>

> After a quick peek, the state investigator and her assistant left with

> Trentadue's body.

>

> Records obtained by this newspaper indicate the pair were only on

> federal property 20 minutes that morning.

>

> Trentadue held under

>

> an alias at center

>

> Documents obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette reveal a most

> unusual fact: Kenneth Trentadue was not listed at the Oklahoma

>

> City Federal Transfer Center by his real name. Instead, the inmate was

> listed as Paul Vance Brockway - an alias Trentadue used

>

> many years earlier.

>

> And there would be more mysteries to emerge from the Oklahoma City

> Federal Transfer Center as Trentadue's death came under

>

> scrutiny.

>

> According to Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, his mother

> received notification of his brother's death on the morning of Aug.

> 21

>

> from Marie Carter, acting warden at the Oklahoma City facility.

>

> "After they told my mother that Kenny had killed himself, they said

> they wanted to cremate the body and send the ashes to us. My

>

> mother refused," Trentadue told this newspaper.

>

> "I knew this was all bull---! Kenny had been on the phone with us a

> day or so earlier and was fine. He had no reason to kill himself. He

>

> hadn't committed a serious crime. He had been working, taking care of

> his family. He messed up with his parole officer, but was not

>

> robbing banks. Kenny was just going to appear before a hearing on a

> minor parole violation. He had a new baby and a wife to come

>

> back home to. If he had to serve a few weeks on the parole violation,

> no big deal."

>

> Deep suspicions

>

> The Trentadue family was not the only group to find the government's

> suicide story hard to believe.

>

> >From the outset, the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner's staff was

>

> highly skeptical.

>

> The day following Trentadue's death, an Oklahoma City FBI agent

> received a murder complaint from Kevin Rowland, the medical

>

> examiner's lead investigator.

>

> Once the medical examiner's office completed the Trentadue autopsy,

> they found the suicide claim very unlikely.

>

> According to former FBI special agent Jeff Jenkins, Rowland told him

> in a telephone call that the inmate's wounds were inconsistent

>

> with a suicide and were likely the result of a murder.

>

> In a Dec. 6, 1995, internal FBI memo marked NOT APPROPRIATE FOR

> DISSEMINATION TO THE PUBLIC, special agent Jenkins

>

> advised his superiors that the Oklahoma Medical Examiner's official

> findings would, "...likely rule that Trentadue's death was a

>

> homicide."

>

> The memo went on to advise the Asst. Special Agent in Charge of the

> Oklahoma City FBI office that efforts were being made by

>

> Federal Transfer Center personnel to avoid polygraph examinations

> concerning the inmate's death.

>

> "SA Jenkins stated that the new warden at the FTC will not allow any

> of the guards/officials to take polygraph examinations. The

>

> prison guards are represented by a strong union which will probably

> also object to their members taking a polygraph."

>

> Destroying evidence?

>

> Material obtained by this newspaper reveals that destruction of

> potential evidence by guards and officials at the FTC in Oklahoma

> City

>

> began in earnest on Aug. 21, 1995 - moments after Kenneth Trentadue

> took his last breath.

>

> As soon as the medical examiner's investigator left with Trentadue's

> body, a team of guards and inmates began cleaning all the blood

>

> from the cell, before the local FBI or Bureau of Prisons special

> investigators flying in from Texas could conduct outside

> investigations

>

> as required by law.

>

> In a sealed report of the investigation obtained by this newspaper,

> the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of

>

> Justice determined that staff members at the Oklahoma City Federal

> Transfer Center immediately destroyed crime scene evidence

>

> and several months later lied about what they had done to federal

> investigators and grand jurors.

>

> The man responsible for securing Trentadue's cell, Lt. Kenneth W.

> Freeman, was charged under law with notifying the FBI of the

>

> inmate's suspicious death so agents could investigate the scene.

>

> Freeman was the special investigative supervisor responsible for

> conducting the initial investigation of Trentadue's death.

>

> The Office of Inspector General found that Freeman did not immediately

> contact the FBI as the law required.

>

> Instead, the OIG determined that center officials set about the

> process of cleaning the cell after learning that a special team of

> Bureau

>

> of Prisons investigators were winging their way to Oklahoma City for

> an internal investigation and could arrive at any moment.

>

> Dated November 1999, the OIG report states:

>

> "Later that morning (Aug. 21, 1995), Associate Warden Flowers decided

> that Trentadue's cell should be cleaned. Flowers told the OIG

>

> that when he asked Freeman during the morning of Aug. 21 if the FBI

> had been notified, Freeman told him the FBI had been notified

>

> and had instructed Freeman to send in a report about the incident. In

> addition, Flowers said that he had been informed by the FTC

>

> medical staff that Trentadue's blood count indicated a high

> probability that he was HIV-positive. (In fact, he was not HIV-

> positive.)

>

> Flowers said he thought the cell should be cleaned promptly because of

> the potentially infectious blood. ... Flowers said he therefore

>

> instructed the FTC health unit to clean the cell.

>

> "Although the center staff had been told by the medical examiner's

> office that the condition of the body required them to immediately

>

> report the incident to the FBI and be careful to treat the cell as a

> crime scene and not disturb anything, the OIG report notes that

>

> statements made by the center's special investigative supervisor, Lt.

> Freeman, were not truthful about how he handled the situation.

>

> However, contrary to Freeman's representations, he still had not

> spoken to the FBI when he told Flowers he had. SA Jenkins stated

>

> that Freeman did not speak with him until approximately 11:30 a.m.

> Although Freeman falsely represented to the BOP and other

>

> investigators about when he first spoke with Jenkins, Freeman

> eventually admitted to the OIG that he had tried to contact Jenkins

>

> early in the morning on Aug. 21, but he did not provide full details

> about Trentadue's death. Although their recollections of the

>

> conversation of Aug. 21 differed, Freeman said he told Jenkins that

> FTC correction officers had found Trentadue hanging in a secure

>

> cell, that Trentadue had committed suicide by hanging himself, and

> that there was a little bit of blood. Jenkins said that Freeman did

>

> not mention any blood and did not describe the extent of Trentadue's

> injuries. ... At approximately 1 p.m., FTC medical staff and

>

> inmates cleaned Trentadue's cell."

>

> The OIG investigation record is replete with details that while staff

> at the center mopped up blood from the floor and wiped away

>

> bloodstains from walls and furniture, others removed the bed sheet

> that Trentadue was supposed to have used to hang himself.

>

> Also, most of the inmate's clothing would disappear that day. And

> prior to the rush to clean the cell, some photographs and a

>

> videotape were made of the scene and victim. Much of this evidence

> would also disappear - some for years, some forever.

>

> At 2 p.m., the Bureau of Prison's Psychological Reconstruction Team

> landed in Oklahoma City to conduct an investigation that is

>

> required under BOP rules of every suspected inmate suicide case.

>

> But once on Federal Transfer Center grounds, investigators would be

> shocked to discover the cell had been meticulously cleaned and

>

> what little evidence remained in the cell had been rearranged by the

> staff. The next day the team would leave Oklahoma City, unable to

>

> conduct a meaningful investigation.

>

> The OIG report notes that transfer center officials had been aware

> since 8 a.m. that this special unit would be arriving that day.

>

> Subsequent state and federal investigations concluded that by the time

> the team of Bureau of Prisons investigators walked into the

>

> facility, crucial evidence that might implicate others had been

> removed or washed away.

>

> While the methodical destruction of the crime scene evidence was going

> forward, the Federal Transfer Center's psychologist, David

>

> Wedeking, had a meeting with his superiors.

>

> After the meeting, Wedeking prepared a suicide watch report stating

> that Trentadue had been placed on a suicide watch shortly before

>

> his death. It was a lie.

>

> While under oath, later, Wedeking admitted the report was false and

> that inmate Kenneth Trentadue was never under a suicide watch.

>

> http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/kenneth_michael_trentadue_02.htm

>

> In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 3/5)

>

> J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004

>

> Shortly after the bloody body of the inmate was discovered hanging

> from a bed sheet in a solitary confinement cell at the Oklahoma

>

> City Federal Transfer Center (FTC), over a thousand miles away an

> unsuspecting family received the shocking news that a loved one

>

> had committed suicide.

>

> The dead man's brother, lawyer Jesse Trentadue, recalled the events

> for this newspaper.

> "Acting Warden Marie Carter called my mother, Wilma Trentadue, at

> about 7 a.m. West Coast time on Aug. 21, 1995, and said my

>

> brother had committed suicide. She tried to get my mother to agree to

> cremate the body and even offered to pay for the cremation.

>

> "We now know that BOP (Bureau of Prisons) regulations do not allow for

> cremation. My mother told Carter that funeral arrangements

>

> would be the decision of Kenney's wife, Carmen. When Carter heard that

> she went ballistic, telling my mother that Kenney did not

>

> have a wife, my mother told Carter he did and that I would be

> contacting Carter to deal with funeral arrangements and that I was a

>

> lawyer.

>

> "Carter lost it again, telling my mother that Kenney did not have a

> brother. My mother said yes, he did. He had two brothers and a

>

> sister."

>

> "About 8 a.m. on the 21st, Trentadue continued: "My mother calls and

> tells me about Kenney's death. I was stunned. I had just

>

> spoken with him the evening of the 19th and nothing was unusual. I was

> immediately suspicious. So, too, was everyone in our family. I

>

> contacted Carmen to tell her about Kenney's death, but first called

> Carmen's sisters so they would be there when the bad news

>

> arrived. Kenney's son was about 2 months old at the time.

>

> "Later that morning, I called Carter, who seemed very defensive. I

> kept asking for an autopsy and she refused, saying that my mother

>

> would have to ask for one in writing. I explained to Carter that I was

> a lawyer and represented my family and that we wanted an

>

> autopsy. She still refused. I had to prepare written authorizations

> for an autopsy, have my mother sign them and send them to Carter."

>

> What the Trentadue family and possibly even the acting warden at the

> Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center didn't know was at that

>

> moment an autopsy was already under way.

>

> "We did not know that an autopsy was being done as Carter and I

> spoke," Jesse Trentadue commented. "I don't believe she knew

>

> either until later that day. After I told Carter we wanted my brother

> sent home, not cremated, I subsequently learned that Carter called

>

> the medical examiner's office to ask what she needed to do to have the

> body cremated.

>

> The medical examiner's investigator, Kevin Rowland, told Carter she

> would need our consent. It was then Carter learned of the autopsy

>

> and sent over a request to the medical examiner to do an autopsy that

> had already been done. All Carter or anyone would say was

>

> that he had killed himself."

>

> When the medical examiner's report of investigation was eventually

> released, Dr. Fred B. Jordan listed more than two-dozen injuries to

>

> the body of Kenneth Trentadue. Literally from his feet to the top of

> his head, Trentadue received a large number of bruises and

>

> lacerations before he took his last breath, experts said.

>

> What the experts don't agree on is who was responsible for the

> remarkable condition of the inmate's body.

>

> The Trentadue family and their experts say their loved one was

> tortured and killed by the government.

>

> The government takes the position the inmate spent a considerable

> amount of time and energy trying to kill himself that night in the

>

> cell.

>

> Both theories are bizarre and both sides have spent huge sums trying

> to establish the more convincing case.

>

> During the autopsy examination, Dr. Jordan photographed three large

> wounds to Trentadue's skull, injuries consistent with blows from

>

> a blunt instrument.

>

> Also, Jordon noted that Trentadue's throat had been slashed. All this

> the staff at the center claimed the 44-year-old parole violator

>

> accomplished before he supposedly hanged himself.

>

> For nearly three years after this autopsy, the Oklahoma chief medical

> examiner refused to issue a final determination on a cause of

>

> death for Kenneth Trentadue. Instead, Dr. Jordan's initial finding was

> death by asphyxiation, "cause unknown."

>

> As a result of his reluctance to agree with prison officials that the

> case was suicide and therefore close the investigation, as well as

>

> the Trentadue family's belief that their loved one was murdered, years

> of investigations have followed and millions of dollars expended

>

> trying to determine, or some would say cover up, what really happened

> that night in cell 709A at the FTC in Oklahoma City.

>

> Federal refusal to cooperate

>

> Within 24 hours of receiving the bloody and battered body for autopsy,

> an assistant medical examiner called the Oklahoma City FBI

>

> office and reported that Trentadue's injuries were consistent with a

> beating and murder - certainly not a suicide. The medical

>

> examiner's office also advised the FBI to treat Trentadue's death as a

> homicide.

>

> Special agent Jeff Jenkins recorded this exchange in an FBI report

> obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette.

>

> "A subsequent autopsy by the State Medical Examiner in Oklahoma City

> revealed that (Trentadue) had been severely beaten prior to

>

> death by asphyxiation."

>

> However, the FBI was not talking to the family at this time and the

> report was not available in the days following Trentadue's death.

>

> Certainly the Bureau of Prisons had not disclosed the extent of the

> inmate's injuries or any other information to the family regarding

>

> Trentadue's final days in federal custody.

>

> While officials declined to speak on the record, the body was sent

> from the medical examiner's office over to a funeral home to be

>

> prepared for viewing and burial. It would take a lot of makeup to make

> the body presentable for the family.

>

> Jesse Trentadue recalled the shipment of his brother home: "The body

> did not arrive in Orange County until the next Saturday. I had to

>

> repeatedly call the FTC to inquire about having the body shipped home.

> It took almost a week and many heated conversations with the

>

> FTC administration. They did not want to release him and I now know

> why.

>

> "I was in Utah preparing to travel to California when his body

> arrived. My mother, sister and Kenney's wife went immediately to the

>

> funeral home and took a camera.

>

> "The body was heavily made up so that all of the injuries were

> concealed except for his slashed throat. No makeup was placed on that

>

> wound; in fact, the collar on his shirt was deliberately turned down

> so that the wound was obvious. I suspect they wanted us to think

>

> that was a rope burn."

>

> He explained that the women took the most important step in the

> family's early investigation. "My mother, sister and Carmen had

>

> Kenney's clothes removed and took a few photographs. They took the

> camera with them because we knew that if Kenney were

>

> murdered, he would go down fighting. When I arrived, we spent the

> better part of a morning photographing and videotaping Kenney's

>

> body. It turned out that we have the only photographs of many of his

> injuries."

>

> The Trentadues contacted the Oklahoma chief medical examiner in

> person. Jesse Trentadue explained the revelations that emerged

>

> from this initial meeting.

>

> "Jordan repeatedly told us this was a murder, but because the crime

> scene had been destroyed, he had to list the manner of death as

>

> unknown. He also looked my mother, Carmen and sister in the eye and

> told them he would never go back on them."

>

> Bitter after years of disappointments, Jesse Trentadue recalls now,

> that, "In the weeks following Kenney's murder, I went to Dallas,

>

> Texas, to speak with the BOP's regional counsel Michael Hood. Hood

> told me the BOP investigation was over, but would not tell me

>

> the conclusion.

>

> "Hood also suggested that we had done the injuries to Kenney's body.

> Hood made one comment that I will always remember. He said,

>

> 'The BOP, FBI and U.S. Attorney's Office - we're one big ole' Justice

> Department.'"

>

> Trentadue explained his frustrations further: "But when I would ask

> for information, I was repeatedly told to file a Freedom of

> Information

>

> Act Request. No one within the government would talk to us. In fact,

> on Sept. 1, 1995, the BOP issued a press release saying that

>

> Kenney's death had tentatively been ruled suicide and that all of his

> wounds were self-inflicted. That press release occurred after my

>

> brother's body arrived home and after we had discovered the trauma."

>

> The BOP's declaration of suicide had no legal effect. It was designed

> for the media. The person with the authority of determine the

>

> legal cause of death was with the Oklahoma medical examiner's office

> and Dr. Jordan was still uncommitted.

>

> Jesse Trentadue said the next step was to lobby senior members of the

> Department of Justice.

>

> "By early October, I had gone up the DOJ food chain to Janet Reno,

> because by early October, I knew the BOP was lying to me, but I

>

> did not suspect the FBI until later."

>

> It would be more than two years before Trentadue would learn that the

> FBI had not even inspected the death scene in a timely manner

>

> after receiving the medical examiner's opinion that Kenneth

> Trentadue's case should be worked as a homicide.

>

> Instead, more damning information concerning the government's

> questionable investigation of his brother's mysterious death would be

>

> investigated and confirmed by Justice Department officials, but no one

> would lose his job or be sent to prison as a result.

>

> One sickening thing to the Trentadue family is the Office of Inspector

> General's findings that Federal Transfer Center staff admitted

>

> lying about important facts in the investigation. Beyond committing

> perjury, some staff members admitted destroying evidence in the

>

> case.

>

> But most upsetting to the family are admissions from the staff that

> key medical personnel were not allowed to administer first aid to

>

> Trentadue during the first minutes after the inmate's body was found

> hanging in his cell.

>

> Jesse Trentadue calls the whole thing a murder and sloppy cover-up

> that no one has paid for.

>

> "My brother didn't have a reason to kill himself. Someone else did it.

> We want to know who and why!"

>

> The Ricks investigation

>

> Oklahoma City FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Bob Ricks assigned the

> gruesome homicide investigation to an agent known to complain

>

> he couldn't bear to look at pictures of dead people.

>

> In spite of the problem, Special Agent Jeff Jenkins was handed the

> case by a man only days from leaving the bureau.

>

> Ricks had been ordered out of the FBI by director Louis Freeh only

> days after the Oklahoma City bombing.

>

> Ricks now admits he stopped a raid that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco

> and Firearms had planned on a group of radicals at Elohim

>

> City, which Timothy McVeigh had contacted only a few days before the

> bomb blast in Oklahoma City left 168 dead, including 19

>

> children.

>

> Like Ricks, Jenkins' days at the bureau were numbered. Evidence

> suggests Jenkins' ouster was not linked to the bombing of the OKC

>

> federal building but problems with his handling of the Trentadue

> matter.

>

> Instead of getting in his car and immediately going across town to the

> Federal Transfer Center to begin the crucial process of

>

> conducting interviews and collecting evidence while the scene was

> fresh, Jenkins stayed in his Oklahoma City office that afternoon

>

> and then went home to enjoy the next day off as paid leave.

>

> While the official case agent lolled, inmates were transferred from

> the Oklahoma City prison, and the cell where Trentadue is believed

>

> to have died was scrubbed clean.

>

> When Jenkins did finally manage to make it to the facility on the 24th

> - a full three days after the death was reported - the agent failed

>

> to conduct a single interview with an inmate, nor did he bother to

> visit the cell where the body was reported to have been cut down.

>

> Instead, Jenkins spent the first day at the facility with the acting

> warden and two members of her staff. What evidence Jenkins

>

> collected that day he later admitted was either placed under his desk

> or left in his car trunk.

>

> A subsequent investigation by the Office of Inspector General for the

> Justice Department concluded that pieces of blood-soaked

>

> evidence that might have yielded DNA evidence linking other persons to

> the scene putrefied in the agent's car truck in the stifling hot

>

> August Oklahoma weather.

>

> By the time the evidence was turned over, it was impossible for the

> FBI lab to examine for clues of other suspects.

>

> The FBI said nothing of this to the family. Evidence of the

> extraordinary amount of missing and destroyed evidence in the case

> would

>

> keep FBI and BOP officials busy explaining for years to come.

>

> In the meantime, the Trentadue investigation languished.

>

> However, brother Jesse refused to wait. The lawyer began a national

> campaign for justice, lobbying hard for answers - coast to coast.

>

> "I had to beg to get the FBI to send anyone to our home to interview

> us about Kenney. Finally I flew to Oklahoma and took the pictures

>

> of Kenney we took after the body arrived in Utah. I knew we were in a

> lot of trouble when Jenkins said he couldn't look at those

>

> pictures, because he might get sick."

>

> Jordan frustrated, too

>

> Eventually the Oklahoma medical examiner became enraged over the FBI's

> lack of interest in the case, too. Like Jesse Trentadue, Dr.

>

> Jordan decided to make some phone calls. He took his complaints to the

> Justice Department, just as Trentadue had been doing.

>

> Sensing the pressure, the case agent on the investigation, Jeff

> Jenkins, wrote that he believed the medical examiner would eventually

>

> conclude that Trentadue was murdered.

>

> Jenkins notes' include references to the building media interest in

> case. His handwritten notes obtained by this newspaper describe

>

> Jordan to his superiors as: "A loose cannon." And in those same notes,

> Jenkins warns:

>

> "CBS been to ME's office earlier today. Talked to OC media rep and

> gave standard no comment on pending investigation. Things at

>

> the prison seem to have gotten a little more tense."

>

> Certainly the FBI had plenty of reason to worry about the media and

> Jordan.

>

> On Dec. 20, 1995, Dr. Jordan placed in his file a memo obtained by

> this newspaper listing efforts he was making to urge the FBI and

>

> Bureau of Prisons to do a proper investigation into Trentadue's death.

>

> In that memo, Jordan records that he placed a call to Eric Holder, a

> top official in Janet Reno's Justice Department in Washington,

>

> D.C.

>

> After failing to make contact with Holder, Jordan notes that he turned

> next to Asst. U.S. Attorney Arlene Joplin in Oklahoma City.

>

> "I advised her that I felt the Trentadue problem was a very serious

> issue that needed full support of the investigative services of the

> FBI.

>

> I believe I further informed her that last week in frustration I

> indicated to Agent Hunt of the FBI that it could not help but occur to

> me

>

> that perhaps the FBI and the BOP were not expediting this

> investigation as quickly as we hoped would occur. I told her I thought

> there

>

> was a very serious problem at the prison. And about that time, Mr.

> Ryan (U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma) got on

>

> the line. I indicated that I felt Mr. Trentadue had been abused and

> tortured and at this point was not sure whether his death could be

>

> explained as a suicide or whether it should be regarded as a

> homicide."

>

> The memo concludes with Jordan's comments that Ryan thanked him for

> the information and gave him his pager number.

>

> Festering with rage, Jesse Trentadue felt the local FBI had no

> intention of conducting a real investigation, either. The Salt Lake

> City

>

> attorney began a letter-writing and information campaign of his own,

> sometimes even plastering gory pictures of his bloodied brother at

>

> bus stops and posting them on the Internet.

>

> In a letter accusing the BOP of murder, Trentadue wrote: "I will

> always be grateful to my brother for his love of life, great heart

> and

>

> strength. Had my brother been less of a man, your guards would have

> been able to kill him without inflicting so much injury to his

>

> body. Had that occurred, Kenney's family would forever have been guilt-

> ridden over his death. Each of us would have lived with the pain

>

> of thinking that Kenneth took his own life and that we had somehow

> failed him. By making the fight he did for his life, Ken has saved

>

> us that pain and God bless for having done so!"

>

> After years to reflect on his ordeals and his loss, Trentadue told

> this newspaper: "The only other thing I remember saying during those

>

> early days was in response to a question: Why should people get upset

> over the death of a parole violator?

>

> "My response: Because the Department of Justice did this and that

> should scare the hell out of every American. I believe that now

>

> more than ever!"

>

> In the next installment: The pace of state and federal government

> investigations pick up only after the Trentadue family and the media

>

> begin asking questions. At this same time, pressure is brought by

> local and federal law enforcement officers on the state medical

>

> examiner to change his opinion of Trentadue's death from "unknown" to

> "suicide."

>

> http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/kenneth_michael_trentadue_03.htm

>

> In the matter of Kenneth Michael Trentadue (Part 4/5)

>

> J.D. Cash / McCurtain Dailey Gazette | April 7, 2004http://www.mccurtain.com/articles/2004/04/07/okc_bombing/okc10.text.txt

>

> Oklahoma's Chief Medical Examiner Fred Jordan, M.D., was a very

> worried and nervous man for years after he autopsied the remains

>

> of Kenneth Michael Trentadue.

>

> In Jordan's long career as the state's medical examiner, his record

> had been a good one - marked with accolades for his abilities in

>

> solving many difficult cases. Indeed, Jordan was deeply respected by

> his peers and the law enforcement community. Even most

>

> criminal defense lawyers practicing in Oklahoma believed Jordan and

> his staff labored hard and their work was unbiased.

>

> The year of 1995, though, tested Jordan and his staff as few medical

> examiners' offices around the world had ever been tested.

>

> On April 19, Jordan's office arrived at the bombed-out remains of the

> Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to begin the process of

>

> establishing positive identifications for 168 bodies, several mangled

> beyond easy recognition after a 7,000-pound truck bomb was set

>

> off in front of the nine-story structure.

>

> Shortly after that gruesome task was accomplished the bloody and

> heavily bruised body of 44-year-old Kenneth Trentadue arrived from

>

> the new Federal Transfer Center where the inmate had been held on a

> parole violation for only three days.

>

> Prison officials surmised the inmate had committed suicide by hanging,

> after beating himself repeatedly and cutting his throat.

>

> After carefully examining the body, Jordan was convinced it was

> murder. And since the prison admitted Trentadue was being held in

>

> isolation, away from other prisoners, that turned the spotlight

> directly on federal workers.

>

> Cover-up began immediately

>

> At the very beginning of his department's investigation into the

> August 21, 1995 brutal death, the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons (BOP)

>

> refused to cooperate. An investigation by the Department of Justice

> Inspector General would later report outrageous examples of

>

> perjury and mishandling of evidence in the case.

>

> Officials at the Oklahoma City Transfer facility initially barred

> Jordan's investigators from the cell after the body of Kenneth

> Trentadue

>

> had been found. And the FBI later admitted their agents misplaced or

> destroyed critical crime scene evidence they received in their

>

> own investigation.

>

> Jesse Trentadue summarized his experiences with federal agencies

> working on the case this way: "The government accused everyone

>

> of wrongdoing. They even accused us of having mutilated my brother's

> body and said that Kenney killed himself because he had AIDS.

>

> (Jordan proved he did not)

>

> "The government was especially concerned about the Medical Examiner's

> Office because of all the evidence we were providing to Dr.

>

> Jordan and his Chief Investigator Kevin Rowland. In fact, we were the

> source of most of the evidence the Medical Examiner's Office

>

> received since they were getting nothing from the government, not even

> cooperation.

>

> "The government infiltrated and/or controlled every "investigation"

> into Kenney's death. And if it could not do that, the government

>

> interfered with those investigations by destroying or withholding

> evidence. I now see that from the minute Kenney drew his last breath,

>

> the government reacted like some wounded animal using all of its

> strength, powers and resources to protect itself."

>

> Jordan under pressure

>

> Echoing many of Jesse Trentadues conclusions, during a rare interview

> for Fox News on July 3, 1997, Dr. Jordan bared many of his

>

> own concerns as he publicly called for a county grand jury

> investigation into the bizarre death of Kenneth Trentadue. The

> remarkable

>

> exchange opens with Jordan pointing the finger at the federal

> government as the culprit in the murder and cover-up.

>

> "I think it's very likely he (Kenneth Trentadue) was murdered. I'm not

> able to prove it. I have temporarily classified the death as

>

> undetermined. You see a body covered with blood, removed from the room

> as Mr. Trentadue was, soaked in blood covered with

>

> bruises, and you try to gain access to the scene and the government of

> the United State says no, you can't.

>

> "They continue to prohibit us from having access to the scene of his

> death, which is unheard of in 1997, until about five months later.

>

> When we went in there and luminalled, it lit up like a candle because

> blood was still present on the walls of the room after four or five

>

> months. But at that point we have no crime scene, so there are still

> questions about the death of Kenneth Trentadue that will never be

>

> answered because of the actions of the U.S. government.

>

> "Whether those actions were intentional - whether they were

> incompetence, I don't know - it's not easy to communicate with the

>

> federal government. It was botched. Or worse, it was planned."

>

> The huge problem created for Jordan and his staff was the government

> cleaned up the cell where they said Trentadue killed himself.

>

> Adding to suspicions, the medical examiner's office was kept away from

> the cell for five months.

>

> During this time, Jordan would later learn that a huge volume of

> evidence in the case disappeared and some was destroyed. Key

>

> witnesses interviewed by authorities would subsequently admit they

> initially lied to federal investigators and grand jurors, as well.

>

> The victim's brother, Jesse Trentadue, told this newspaper, "At first

> we pinned so much hope on Dr. Jordan. He seemed sincere to us.

>

> He knew Kenny did not kill himself, but had been killed. He promised

> our family he would never give up on this case until he found the

>

> truth. He also promised he wouldn't buckle under all the pressure he

> was being hit with by the FBI.

>

> "The government desperately needed Jordan to rule the case a suicide

> so they could stop a grand jury and other federal investigations

>

> from going forward. Jordan was the key they needed to close the case

> and he wouldn't."

>

> In notes obtained by this newspaper, an FBI agent reported the medical

> examiner's original stalwart position that Dr. Jordan was: "A

>

> loose cannon." And furthermore, the FBI agent noted, "The medical

> examiner's findings will probably rule that the death was a

>

> homicide."

>

> Growing nervous by FBI agents repeated attempts to pressure him to

> rule the case a suicide, Jordan began contacting officials he

>

> believed would help him.

>

> After the United State's Attorney General, Janet Reno, refused his

> phone calls, Jordan was successful in getting the attention of U.S.

>

> Attorney Patrick Ryan in Oklahoma City, after he told one of Ryan's

> assistants that Trentadue was probably killed by persons

>

> employed by the federal government.

>

> During the exchange, Ryan says he will pursue the case and take

> Jordan's evidence before a federal grand jury.

>

> Despite these assurances, the FBI continued to pressure the Oklahoma

> medical examiner to declare the inmate's death a suicide.

>

> Desperate for protection from government retribution, Jordan began

> contacting other officials about his fears.

>

> An example of Jordan's concerns are reflected in a letter to the

> Commissioner of the IRS, Margaret Milner Richardson.

>

> Dated Aug. 25, 1997, the letter said: "The requirements of my job as

> Chief Medical Examiner for the State of Oklahoma are frequently

>

> currently bringing me into an uncomfortable juxtaposition with the

> United States Department of Justice.

>

> "In order to protect myself from retribution I would like information

> as to how to request a protective audit from your agency. By this, I

>

> simply mean a standard audit in order to avoid having your agency used

> to harass me as I proceed with my inquiries into a death that

>

> directly relates to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City."

>

> As the FBI continued to pressure Jordan in 1997, the medical examiner

> also sought political protection from various elected officials.

>

> Jordan fights back

>

> In a handwritten memo obtained by the McCurtain Daily Gazette, Jordan

> records the highpoints of a telephone call he made to North

>

> Dakota's United States Senator Byron L. Dorgan.

>

> Explaining his difficult situation, the ME noted that he told the

> senator that the Trentadue investigation had been "... crippled by

> the

>

> federal government and that Kenneth Trentadue was at the least beaten

> before he died." Jordan added: "Reiterated my lack of trust in

>

> the federal government; things inside the D.C. beltway; and the Dept

> of Justice in particular."

>

> With the Department of Justice at this time mired in a civil suit with

> the Trentadue family, lawyers in the civil division of the Justice

>

> Department appeared to be using the FBI to pressure the medical

> examiner into changing his ruling.

>

> Also casting long shadows over the matter, several important senators

> had begun asking questions and threatening Janet Reno with a

>

> full Senate Judiciary Committee investigation to get to the bottom of

> the case - if she couldn't do it herself.

>

> The Trentadue case was catching national headlines and creating havoc

> for DOJ officials.

>

> Members of Reno's staff knew if Jordan would change his mind and rule

> the death a suicide, then the mounting pressure for hearings

>

> on Capitol Hill and the flood of news coverage about the terrible

> situation would likely go away.

>

> Responding to the mounting pressure, Dr. Jordan continued to complain

> bitterly about his treatment. He went to the Oklahoma

>

> Attorney General with his problems. Soon afterward a letter was sent

> to the civil division of the Justice Department.

>

> On March 12, 1998, Assistant Attorney General Patrick Crawley attacked

> the Justice Department attacks on Jordan and his staff.

>

> Crawley opens the letter commenting that he presumes the DOJ lawyer

> also represents the FBI and the BOP.

>

> Next Crawley launches into a vigorous assault on the US Justice

> Department's handling of the Trentadue investigation.

>

> In a sort of "Alice through the Looking Glass" set of circumstances,

> truth has been obfuscated by the agendas of various federal

>

> agencies (mostly your clients). Particularly in the initial, and most

> critical, stage of the investigation when your clients (BOP and FBI)

>

> muddled and meddled their way into the investigative operation. In the

> process, your clients prevented the medical examiner from

>

> conducting a thorough and complete investigation into the death,

> destroyed evidence, and otherwise harassed and harangued Dr.

>

> Jordan and his staff. The absurdity of this situation is that your

> clients outwardly represent law enforcement or least some arm of

> licit

>

> government.

>

> Nevertheless, even though the chances of ever establishing what really

> happened in this case have essentially vanished, the medical

>

> examiner will still look at any evidence that may be for the coming in

> an attempt to uncover the real truth in the death of Kenneth

>

> Trentadue. Whether the truth of the matter is that Kenneth Trentadue

> severely beat and bruised himself, slashed his own throat, and

>

> ultimately hung himself, which may displease the Trentadue family, or

> that he was beaten and killed by others, which may displease

>

> you and your clients, matters not to the medical examiner. The only

> item of interest in the medical examiner's investigation is the truth

>

> about what happened. It is, in the end, the task of the medical

> examiner to establish the cause and manner of his death.

>

> The real tragedy in this case appears to be the perversion of law

> through chicanery and the misuse of public trust under the guise of

>

> some aberrant for of federalism. In a succession of either illegal,

> negligent, or just plain stupid acts, your clients succeeded in

> derailing

>

> the medical examiner's investigation and, thereby, may have obstructed

> justice in this case. As more and more information is revealed

>

> in this case, primarily through the efforts of Jesse Trentadue, it

> appears that your clients, and perhaps others within the Department

> of

>

> Justice, have been abusing the powers of their respective offices. If

> this is true, all Americans should be very frightened of your clients

>

> and the DOJ. Undaunted, when you come into possession of the least

> little tidbit of misinformation you immediately conclude that my

>

> client, who has always acted honorably, has suddenly abandoned his

> principles to improperly torpedo your group.

>

> Summarizing the government's alleged interference in the ME's work,

> the letter concludes: "The investigation into the death of Kenneth

>

> Trentadue remains open. If it appears that the medical examiner is not

> particularly fond of your clients and is openly distrustful of them

>

> and the DOF, it is not any more curious than a similar posture taken

> towards other criminal defendants who appear to have some

>

> liability in a case under investigation and seek to intervene or

> otherwise control the medical examiners' investigation. I will remind

> you

>

> that, to date, any and all evidence of wrongdoing points only to your

> client or clients. This is true regardless of how Kenneth Trentadue

>

> was killed. On the primary distinguishing features o this

> investigation has been the power of possible suspects to interfere

> with the

>

> inquiry under color of law. Naturally we view any participation by

> suspects in an investigation with no small amount of alarm and

>

> distrust."

>

> Clearly the medical examiner's office was holding firm at this time.

> At least when Jesse Trentadue read the letter copied to his law

>

> office he felt satisfied that he had at least one stalwart friend

> fighting with him for truth and justice in the matter of his brother's

> revolting

>

> and mysterious death.

>

> Then, suddenly Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy's office

> entered the picture.

>

> Macy and his staff came to the case on the guise they would conduct an

> independent investigation into the death of Kenneth

>

> Trentadue at the Federal Transfer Center.

>

> The Patrick Ryan, the U.S. attorney charged with prosecuting the

> OKBOMB case stepped encouraged Macy's intervention. The stated

>

> rationale was that everyone seemed to have lost confidence in the

> FBI's and BOP's handling of the matter.

>

> In very little time after Macy's staff entered the case and began

> visiting with the medical examiner, Dr. Jordan suddenly changed

>

> Trentadue's cause of death from unknown to suicide.

>

> Shocked by the sudden turnaround, Jesse Trentadue immediately began

> researching who was behind getting Jordan to change his

>

> findings to suicide. Trentadue was told the man was a former Oklahoma

> City police detective named Tom Bevel.

>

> Retained by District Attorney Bob Macy and assisted by Richard

> Wintory, a prosecutor working in Macy's office, Tom Bevel was a

>

> very well known local crime scene reconstruction expert.

>

> Trentadue explained Bevels unusual relationship to the various parties

> involved in the wide-ranging investigations and a wrongful death

>

> civil suit, "The expert witness hired to help defend the government

> against my family's civil suit, Tom Bevel was also being paid by the

>

> government to help write the OIG's report of its official

> investigation into the circumstances of my brother's death.

>

> "More incredible still, Bevel was being paid by the government at the

> same time he was part of the Macy/Wintory investigation!"

>

> Thus, all the investigations were linked through one individual. A

> crime scene investigator brought in by Bob Macy.

>

> Tom Bevel would not only be charged with investigating the FBI, but he

> also was working for the Justice Department's Inspector

>

> General charged with investigating the FBI and Department of Justice's

> handling of the case. Additionally Mr. Bevel was collecting

>

> money from the Department of Justice to help them defend themselves

> against the Trentadue's family's wrongful death civil suit.

>

> Jesse Trentadue is bitter about what his family has experienced: "The

> sick thing about the entire situation was the epidemic of

>

> government corruption we dug up. Perjury, subornation of perjury,

> threats to witnesses, destruction of evidence, fabrication of