The FBI Release of McVeigh Documents
By Joel Skousen
Today, only days before the scheduled execution of Timothy McVeigh, the FBI has suddenly "found" thousands of documents relevant to the McVeigh case and released them to McVeigh's attorneys. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a suspension of the date of execution to give the McVeigh team time to go through this massive ommission from the trial record. The FBI claims these tapes, papers, and transcripts of interviews were only discovered as the FBI was preparing to archive the McVeigh files.
Here is what is wrong with this picture. First of all, this is not a sudden
happening. I don't believe for a minute that the FBI had misplaced this much
material, or that they only recently "found it." They have
conveniently provided the press with a complete breakdown of the contents of the
material so that the media would not be in the dark for weeks waiting to hear
what the contents are. This kind of cataloging takes time--lots of time, which
provides some evidence that this was not a recent discovery.
Predictably, the FBI and the media, as if acting in concert, were quick to
announce that the material contains no new evidence of McVeigh's innocence. It
doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to that conclusion--McVeigh has already
confessed, so there should be no expectation of a different outcome regarding
McVeigh himself. But that isn't the issue. The issue has always been who else
was involved, and why the government is covering up any attempt to find the
other accomplices, as well as the evidence of other explosive devices in and
around the Murrah Building.
Here we have another example of an egregious omission of evidence on the part of
the FBI. In a trial of this nature, the defense team has a right to see all the
government's evidence against their client in order to prepare a suitable
defense. It is a federal offense to withhold information. The FBI withheld lots
of it. But there's more--more evidence, I mean, that the FBI is withholding. One
of the interesting things about this most recent set of documents is that the
FBI claims to be releasing interviews concerning others who may have been
involved. Suspiciously, none of these interviews brings to light the actual
identities of the other "John Does" whom witnesses saw with McVeigh.
Jayna Davis, who has done some of the most complete research into the identities
of the other "Middle Eastern" looking accomplices, has proof that the
FBI knows who they are and refuses to act on that information. Not surprisingly,
no evidence of this nature is in the recent and supposedly "complete and
final" release of documents by the FBI.
What this means is that the FBI made this release to satisfy the public about
the "other accomplices," falsely giving the impression that the Bureau
is coming clean and putting all the evidence on the table. This is nothing more
than a sophisticated disinformation operation meant to defuse conspiracy claims.
It may work with the public, but it won't faze any who know about the massive
evidence pointing to government cover-up and involvement in this, the worst case
so far of agent provocateurs being passed off as "domestic
terrorists."
So why isn't McVeigh talking? Now that he is going to die, he has nothing to
lose. I believe he still thinks his accomplices are "comrades in arms"
in the cause of doing damage to the enemy (evil government) that McVeigh
despises. Thus, he feels it a matter of duty to go to his death still protecting
their identity. McVeigh's confidence in his accomplices could probably be broken
by any of the conservative investigators who could show McVeigh the evidence of
government involvement and cover-up for the accomplices. McVeigh, like us, would
have to wonder why, if his accomplices were really anti-US government, the FBI
and CIA would be actively trying to protect the accomplices' identities. Once
McVeigh suspected he was being set up by agent provocateurs, he would probably
talk. That is why no one savvy about the conspiracy is allowed to talk to
McVeigh. That is why they want McVeigh dead, just like Oswald. This present
delay is only temporary--just long enough to help defuse the growing evidence of
cover-up and further suppress the truth.
MY ASSESSMENT OF BUSH'S FIRST 100 DAYS
Last week's Washington Times lauded President George W. Bush's first 100 days
as a resounding success. This is to be expected from the nation's most
unabashedly pro-Bush-at-any-cost newspaper. The real record of Bush's first 100
days shows the inevitable signs of saying all the right things to please the
conservatives, but making sure the liberal and globalist agenda moves forward.
1. Conservatives hailed Bush when he had the courage to dump the Kyoto
Treaty on global warming. However, the Bush administration immediately
yielded to the demands of the radical environmentalists who reintroduced their
own version to replace the Kyoto Treaty. The bad science of global warning is
not being challenged--only the administrative implementation, giving fewer
exceptions to third world countries like China, one of the world's worst
polluters, and mandating equal compliance by all. Global warming is a complete
fraud based upon computer modeling techniques designed to support the phony
eco-tragedy claims. If you want a detailed scientific examination of the global
warming claims, visit the website of the Oregon Institute of Science and
Medicine. Dr. Arthur Robinson's slide lecture is a powerful rebuttal of this
latest example of fraudulent scientific claims.
The fact that the tobacco companies withheld from the public some of the
health effects is not sufficient reason to make them liable for all health
consequences of smoking. Nobody smokes today who doesn't know about the health
risks of tobacco. The prime dangers of tobacco have long been recognized and
smokers' illnesses are the result of that knowing use of tobacco, even if the
full extent of the risks was obscured218. This same case could be make against
every addictive product--caffeinated colas, coffee, tea, alcoholic beverages,
and so forth. There is little danger, however, that these other damaging
products will be targeted--they have a much broader constituency than tobacco
does. What the new breed of "killer lawyers" are taking on are
politically incorrect gun manufacturers, proving that these cases are part of a
political agenda--not a crusade to protect people's health.
6. Bush has decided not to overturn or reverse Clinton's misuse of the
"Antiquities Act" in locking up millions of acres of federal
land as environmental monuments. This includes the creation of the
infamous Escalante Grand Staircase Monument in Utah, which effectively tied up
the nation's largest deposit of sulfur-free coal. In our nation's growing energy
crisis, this coal could have fueled existing and new coal plants with
non-polluting coal for years to come.
7. Rather than work to abolish the Federal Department of Education,
as Republicans have long promised to do, Bush has made proposals to increase
federal spending and control over education. His budget proposal totaled $18.6
billion more than his predecessor--a 72% increase.
8. Rather than cut off federal subsidy of the left-leaning Corporation
for Public Broadcasting, Bush is asking for increased spending of $10
million for this propaganda outfit.
9. Bush has refused to heed the call by conservatives to scrap President
Clinton's suicidal PDD-60 mandating that our military forces
absorb a nuclear first strike. Instead, Bush is proposing more unilateral
disarmament, taking our nuclear warhead stockpile down to 2,500--not enough to
win a nuclear war, and therefore not a credible deterrent to such a war. Lest
any readers believe the propaganda that "no one wins a nuclear war,"
both Russia and China are building enough new and modern nuclear weapons to do
just that. Bush has demonstrated that, even after the hostile EP-3 incident, he
is unwilling to stop this government's headlong "constructive
engagement" with China--a euphemism for continued aid, trade and
appeasement of a future mortal enemy.
10. President Bush has decided to maintain the "Gore Tax",
one of those additions to your local telephone bill each month that
funnels billions into the federal program to provide internet access to every
public school. Take a close look at your phone bill and you'll see that this has
become the favorite place to increase taxes. The amount of extra taxes and
federal charges on my phone bill exceeds my regular telephone bill each month,
literally doubling my cost for basic service. Adding special taxes to people's
cell phone bills is also a new legislative fad. It's time to start protesting
this system of selective taxation. I'm all for true user fees to fund
government, but this is not a user fee.
11. Instead of abolishing the Clinton boondoggle Americorps,
Bush is promoting increased funding of $282 million. This amounts to a domestic
peace corps. Regardless of the services performed, many of which are beneficial,
this is not an appropriate role for government and is clearly unconstitutional.
These types of federal programs use tax moneys to do what church programs have
done for years with voluntary efforts. Historically, after the federal
government moves into areas of private charity, private giving declines.
12. Bush has asked for an increase of $400 million in the IRS budget to
increase enforcement, rather than mandating true reform of IRS abuses.
13. The Bush administration has decided to not overturn President Clinton's wetlands
enforcement policies. The wetlands regulations are stretched so broadly
that virtually all private property with any significant standing water bigger
than a puddle is vulnerable to its draconian controls and restrictions on
development. Bush is missing a great opportunity here to overturn years of
administrative edict and abuse of private property rights.
There are many other examples to document that this administration is a powerful
continuation of the leftist and globalist agenda running this country, albeit a
slightly milder version. Even Bill Clinton in a recent interview expressed
surprise and admiration at the sophistication George Bush was exhibiting in his
dealing with issues. Sadly, the pawns in this sophisticated manipulation of the
issues are the Republican conservative base, who, as in Ronald Reagan's
presidency, are too enamored with having "their man" in the White
House to see the ongoing sellout on core issues.
WORLD AFFAIRS BRIEF (excerpt) April 27, 2001 Copyright Joel Skousen. Quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief. Website: http://www.joelskousen.com
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