{"id":673,"date":"2025-06-09T11:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/?p=673"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T11:04:32","slug":"fbi-lies-and-lies-and-hides-facts-about-oklahoma-bombing-tragedy-biggest-domestic-terrorist-attack-before-9-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sterlingcooper.info\/blog\/fbi-lies-and-lies-and-hides-facts-about-oklahoma-bombing-tragedy-biggest-domestic-terrorist-attack-before-9-11\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI LIES AND LIES AND HIDES FACTS ABOUT OKLAHOMA BOMBING TRAGEDY, BIGGEST DOMESTIC TERRORIST ATTACK BEFORE 9\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"
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30-Year Cover-Up: Newly Unearthed Records Confirm FBI Lied about OKC Bomb Footage<\/h1>\n
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‘These same RTA videotapes would show John Doe 2, the accomplice that 24-witnesses have said was in the truck with McVeigh that morning…’<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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(Ken Silva<\/a>, Headline USA<\/a>) There was a lot of news last week about the FBI suppressing evidence: Sen. Chuck Grassley alleged Thursday that the bureau has a \u201cProhibited Access\u201d label to hide damning documents, while Director Kash Patel<\/a> was widely criticized a day later for his dubious claims that the FBI doesn\u2019t have footage of sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s<\/a> associates abusing girls.<\/p>\n

To top it off, an attorney suing the FBI in federal court filed a motion Friday afternoon, accusing the bureau of lying about footage in another scandalous case: the Oklahoma City<\/a> bombing, which remains the deadliest domestic terrorism attack in American history.<\/p>\n

The late-Friday motion comes from Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue<\/a>, who\u2019s been suing the FBI for records on the OKC bombing for decades. Trentadue said in his motion that a researcher he works with recently uncovered previously hidden FBI records about the bombing. Those records, unearthed by OKC bomb researcher Richard Booth<\/a>, show that an agent falsely testified in court that the bureau didn\u2019t have surveillance footage of OKC bomber Timothy McVeigh and his mystery accomplice \u201cJohn Doe 2.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBooth did a text based search of those FBI records and discovered therein four documents proving that the Bureau is in possession of videotapes from security cameras at the Regency Towers Apartments (\u201cRTA\u201d) that show the destruction of the Murrah Federal Building, and Timothy McVeigh actually arming the truck bomb at approximately 8:57 am on the morning of [April] 19, 1995, when the Ryder Truck that was carrying the bomb was parked in front of the RTA,\u201d Trentadue\u2019s motion<\/a> states.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, these same RTA videotapes would show John Doe 2, the accomplice that 24-witnesses have said was in the truck with McVeigh that morning, but who the FBI insists never existed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trentadue\u2019s filing comes some 17 years after he initially sued the FBI for surveillance footage of the OKC bombing in 2008. His lawsuit went to trial in 2014, and the FBI vociferously argued that no footage from the RTA buildings exists. The presiding judge has yet to issue a final judgment, in large part due to allegations that the FBI tampered with one of Trentadue\u2019s witnesses (that wild saga can be read here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

While the court continues to investigate the witness-tampering allegations, Trentadue now also wants the presiding judge to reopen his original case that went to trial, and to consider the new evidence uncovered by Booth.<\/p>\n

According to Trentadue, the existence of new records gives him an even stronger case for the presiding judge to rule in his favor. Moreover, Trentadue said the new OKC records support Sen. Grassley\u2019s allegations that the FBI<\/a> intentionally hides FBI records by filing them under \u201cProhibited Access\u201d status\u2014meaning that they don\u2019t appear in the bureau\u2019s general records-keeping system.<\/p>\n

The FBI has declined to comment on Trentadue\u2019s case.<\/p>\n

New Records: What do They Say?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Just eight days after the Oklahoma City bombing, an FBI agent named Jon Hersley testified in court that security footage from the top of a nearby apartment complex showed the bombers\u2019 Ryder Truck heading towards the Murrah building minutes before the explosion.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe that particular camera was located on the apartment building there,\u201d Hersley said on the stand during McVeigh\u2019s April 27, 1995, preliminary hearing\u2014referring to the Regency Tower Apartments, or RTA. \u201cI don\u2019t know the exact location of the camera, but it kind of scans that whole area there \u2026 It scans in front of the Tower building and also over towards the parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

But when Trentadue sued for the footage nearly 20 years later, Hersley suddenly changed his tune. At Trentadue\u2019s 2014 trial, he testified that he was mistaken in his 1995 testimony, and that the RTA camera he described didn\u2019t exist. Instead, Hersley testified he had only seen pictures from an ATM machine\u2019s camera that was inside of the Regency Tower Apartments.<\/p>\n

At the time, Trentadue expressed skepticism over Hersley\u2019s contradictory testimony.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe testimony about this videotape given by Mr. Hersley 20 years ago just after the bombing conflicts with the testimony that he gave at this trial,\u201d Trentadue said in a December 2014 proposed findings of facts, which he filed after the trial concluded. \u201cThe testimony given by Mr. Hersley at the [April 1995] Preliminary Hearing is the more credible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fast forward another 10-plus years: OKC bombing researcher Booth has apparently proven that Trentadue was correct.<\/p>\n

In a sworn declaration<\/a> accompanying Trentadue\u2019s Friday motion, Booth said he was tasked to search through a trove of some 1.5 million pages of documents from the FBI<\/a> case file of Terry Nichols\u2014one of McVeigh\u2019s accomplices who helped him build a bomb, but who wasn\u2019t in Oklahoma on the day of the attack. Booth said he found records about the Regency Tower Apartments\u2019 security footage\u2014records that were hidden from Trentadue and the public for decades.<\/p>\n

The first record Booth found is an FBI report detailing an interview agents conducted with Wesley Edward Bogie, who worked security at the Regency Tower Apartments. According to the FBI report, agents showed Bogie \u201cthree still photographs taken from the RTA security camera,\u201d which depicted McVeigh\u2019s Ryder Truck and two individuals nearby. The significance of this report is that the footage it describes couldn\u2019t have been from the ATM machine inside the apartment complex\u2014it must\u2019ve been from another camera, according to Booth.<\/p>\n

Another record Booth found describes footage clear enough that the Regency Tower Apartment\u2019s assistant manager was able to identify a tenant that was pictured. Again, this indicates that the footage came from a camera other than the ATM inside of the building, Booth said in his declaration.<\/p>\n

A third record Booth found is from the FBI\u2019s June 1996 interview of Oklahoma City Police Department Sgt. Ritchie Willis, who told agents that he recovered film from a Regency Towers security camera that \u201cwas still recording\u201d at the time it was removed. Willis said he provided that film to FBI agent Lou Ann Sandstrom about eight hours after the bombing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis document is highly significant because it establishes as a fact that the tape obtained by Sgt. Willis was still recording when it was taken into custody, that the recording came from one of the RTA security cameras, that the camera depicted 5th<\/sup> Street, and that it was removed from a VCR,\u201d Booth said in his declaration.<\/p>\n

The fourth record states that the private firm ADT Security serviced the external security cameras at the Regency Tower Apartments\u2014another indication that such footage exists, but is being suppressed by the FBI.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore importantly, the obvious conclusion one can draw from these documents is that the RTA videotapes contain material that the Bureau does not want people to see, namely, the still-unidentified John Doe #2,\u201d Booth added\u2014referring to McVeigh\u2019s accomplice, whom the FBI initially launched a massive manhunt for, only to later claim that he never actually existed.<\/p>\n

What Now?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In his Friday motion, Trentadue asked for the judge to reopen his case to consider the new records unearthed by Booth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis newly discovered evidence consists of the Bureau\u2019s own records that were deliberately withheld from both the Court and Plaintiff,\u201d Trentadue said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis evidence is also very important because it shows that the FBI did not conduct a good faith reasonable search for responsive records and, in all fairness, the Court should receive and consider this evidence especially given the FBI\u2019s attempts to mislead the Court about the \u2018search\u2019 that was actually done in response to Plaintiff\u2019s FOIA<\/a> Request and the results of that search,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department must now respond to Trentadue\u2019s motion. What happens next is unclear, as Trentadue\u2019s case is already in uncharted territory\u2014this writer is unaware of any other FOIA case in history to go to trial, and the transparency group Judicial Watch has described the lawsuit as one of the most extraordinary FOIA cases in American history.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re one of the largest FOIA litigants in this country, and we\u2019ve never been involved in anything that involves that degree of alleged misconduct by the [FBI]. It\u2019s astounding,\u201d Judicial Watch investigator\u00a0Sean Dunagan told this reporter in 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If the judge rules in his favor, Trentadue seeks to depose FBI agents and search their physical archives to see what they did with the missing surveillance footage. But the FBI has said in court briefings that the court doesn\u2019t have the power to let Trentadue do that\u2014suggesting that the bureau would appeal any judgment against it.<\/p>\n

Such an appeal could extend the litigation for years. Meanwhile, Trentadue still awaits a separate judgment in the same case, over the witness tampering allegations he made a decade ago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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