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Before September 11, 2001 attacks there was the Oklahoma City Bombing

This is a crime in which the government actually used the death penalty as a "Jack Ruby" type killing of a witness in what should have been an on going criminal investigation. In one of the first "modern conspiracies" to coverup a Major Crime of National Importance was when Jack Ruby killed Lee Harvey Oswald, and in doing so left major questions in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. There has been much debate on that.

Oddly though, the media never framed the government's speedy trial and "Death Penalty Killing" of Timothy McVeigh, who was key to continued investigation of the crime, as a coverup. McVeigh was convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges and executed on June 11, 2001 for a crime that happened in 1995. The government killed Timothy McVeigh shortly before September 11, 2001 attacks.

Six years may not seem speedy to grieving family member of the 168 people who were killed or the hundreds who were injured in the bombing, but that was speedy. Co-Conspirator Terry Lynn Nichols was not convicted until May 26, 2004 in the State Trial; three years after the government murdered a potential witness in the Nichols trial. In the earlier Federal trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole on June 4, 1998

Terry Nichols contends a high-ranking FBI director, Larry Potts, directed Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to an affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah on February 9, 2007.

In his affidavit of February, 2007, Nichols says he wants to bring closure to the survivors and families of the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which took 168 lives. He alleges he wrote then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in 2004, offering to help identify all parties who played a role in the bombing but never got a reply.

McVeigh and Nichols were the only defendants indicted in the bombing. However, Nichols alleges others were involved. McVeigh told him he was recruited for undercover missions while serving in the military, according to Nichols. He says he learned sometime in 1995 that there had been a change in the bombing target and that McVeigh was upset by that.

And now here is a Headline: Attorney: Oklahoma City bomb tapes appear edited

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Attorney: Oklahoma City bomb tapes appear edited

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"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.

Trentadue began looking into the bombing after his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, died at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center in August 1995. Kenneth Trentadue was a convicted bank robber who was held at the federal prison after being picked up as a parole violator at his home in San Diego in June 1995.

He was never a bombing suspect, but Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mistook his brother for one and beat him to death during an interrogation. The official cause of Kenneth Trentadue's death is listed as suicide, but his body had 41 wounds and bruises that Jesse Trentadue believes could have come only from a beating.

A judge in 2001 awarded Kenneth Trentadue's family $1.1 million for extreme emotional distress in the government's handling of his death.