FBI Releases Edited OKC Bombing Tapes
September 28th, 2009Via: AP:
Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
“The real story is what’s missing,” said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.
Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.
The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.
“Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain’t no such thing as a coincidence,” Trentadue said.
He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because “they had run out of tape” or “the tape was being replaced.”
“The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02,” he said. “The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn’t want anybody to see.”
A spokesman for the FBI in Oklahoma City, Gary Johnson, declined to comment and referred inquiries about the tapes to FBI officials in Washington, who were not immediately available for comment Sunday.
The soundless recordings show people rushing from nearby buildings after the bomb went off. Some show people fleeing through corridors cluttered with debris. None show the actual explosion that ripped through the federal building.
FBI agents did not report finding any security tapes from the federal building itself.
The FBI in the past refused to release the security camera recordings, leading Trentadue and others to contend the government was hiding evidence that others were involved in the attack.
“It’s taken a lawsuit and years to get the tapes,” Trentadue said.
I wasn’t even going to read this article. But holy crap.
Wonder whether there was thermite used in OK as well? Or was just is all that fertilizer?
Yeah, isn’t it FUNNY that all those darn cameras went blank at the same time?
I am wondering if the Atrocities, Coincendence category covers it Kevin.
Might need an Inside Job category.
There has got to be a special hell for the collective demon that continues to do this shit.
Blowing up buildings and getting some kind of mental and maybe physical ejaculative joy out of it is a DISEASE of the SICKEST KIND that seems to be spreading round the world. To bad there’s not a vaccination for this kind of illness.
Right. In my dreams.
It’s funny that once one opens their eyes a little how many events don’t appear to be at all what they were sold as. I suppose any student of history wouldn’t be too surprised though. Let’s see, Pearl Harbor to start WW2 (for the US at least), Gulf of Tonkin – Veitnam, The uss Maine – spanish american war (I think?), and now OKC bombimg- probably to suppress the militia movement (I’m sure Waco and Ruby Ridge had a part as well)- 9/11 for the Iraq and Afgan wars. (A funny aside- I personally know the woman who was the American spokesperson for the Taliban before the war- her family is afgan royalty (the ruling family before Russia got involved)- her uncle happens to be Richard Helms- ex CIA head in the 70’s. Did she get arrested after 9/11? No – she now runs a flower shop (isn’t that grand? for some reason it reminds me of the godfather dying in his orange grove) Perfectly nice and smart woman by the way and I wish her all the best, just one piece of a puzzle that proved to me 9/11 isn’t what we are told it is.)
So just how many events in history are falsified lies? Probably more than I can imagine since history is usually written by the winners.
I seam to remember on this years 9/11 festivities Obama spoke of the “sacrifice” of the 3000 dead (nice round number by the way). So Obama, who were they sacrificed too? Your sun god? And for what? More war?
Forgive the early morning ramblings, it’s always good to vent a little! Take care all.