Dennis Romboy
Deseret News
March 27, 2012
SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge on Wednesday continued to question the FBI’s explanation for not producing videotapes associated with the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that a Salt Lake lawyer has sought for nearly six years.
“It’s quite astounding that documents as important as these went missing and the FBI says, ‘Well, they’re gone,’” U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups said during a motion hearing.
At issue is whether the FBI adequately responded to Jesse Trentadue’s Freedom of Information Act request for footage of Timothy McVeigh parking a truckload of explosives at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Specifically, the Salt Lake attorney is after a building surveillance tape and dashcam video from the Oklahoma state trooper who stopped McVeigh 90 minutes after the explosion that killed 168 people.
The FBI has submitted several declarations from its top records manager to show the agency has searched electronic databases and evidence warehouses without success. But Waddoups said the declarations lack credibility because they do not include firsthand knowledge or details about who, when, where or how the searches were conducted.
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More proof our government institutions are run by our enemies. It’s sad when the people we pay well to protect us turn out to be behind these heinous crimes. Theres plenty of proof already.
Nothing new here. Remember when the LA police destroyed all the evidence in the Robert Kennedy murder? Or when the FBI framed Leonard Peltier?
It’s the 1% who call the shots in this country, and the cops, and the FBI are their errand boys to kill or put you in prison. That’s the only way to keep this bordello running smooth.