FBI Sought Satellite Photos After Bombing

FBI Sought Satellite Photos After Bombing
By PAUL FOY
Associated Press Writer

June 7, 2006, 5:06 PM EDT


SALT LAKE CITY -- In the months after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the FBI tried to buy satellite photos from a Russian company to track Timothy McVeigh's movements before the attack, a newly released FBI teletype shows.

The teletype, filed Friday in federal court in Salt Lake City, is the latest disclosure ordered for an insurance lawyer who is dogging the FBI for information about its bombing investigation.

The lawyer, Jesse Trentadue, is seeking evidence he contends will show that federal agents were tipped off to McVeigh's plans but failed to stop the bombing, which killed 168 people and destroyed a federal office building.
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Trentadue is also trying to prove that his brother -- a bank robber who died in federal custody after being picked up on a parole violation -- was mistaken for an associate of McVeigh's in the frantic search for conspirators after the bombing, and was killed by federal agents during an interrogation.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-fbi-oklahoma-bombing,0,2135592.story?coll=sns-ap-nationworld-headlines

How can the FBI investigate military torture when they tortured this guy to death trying to get a false confession?

.. fellow's "research," including claims that the Southern Poverty Law Center was somehow wrapped up in the Oklahoma City bombing. And by "Wingnut World," I mean a gaggle including the Usual Suspects and the Hooked Crossers. In addition to making sixshooter withdrawals from banks, the brother seems to have been a heroin addict, who either hanged himself in jail or was tortured to death with a subsequent cover-up, depending on who you believe. I think Jesse has sometimes claimed his brother was actually mistaken for McVeigh himself. There's some story that the Feds have recently re-opened the case.

I don't think I'll try to sort it out right now.

.. Though he abhors that indiscriminate massacre of 168 people on April 19, 1995, Trentadue shares with its perpetrators a gutful of spite for the federal government. Asked what separates him from “right-wing whack jobs” bent on armed insurrection, he admits half-considering “Plan B” himself ..

.. “They had a sign there on the bathhouse reading, if the top is bad, meaning danger of a cave-in, you use men to move the car from the face to the main line, not an animal,” Jesse says. “If a miner gets killed, the company can hire another one. If a mule gets killed, the company has to pay for that.” ..

.. In 1987, Kenny was paroled after serving six years of a 20-year federal term for robbing a savings and loan. Adjusting to life on the outside was difficult, Jesse says, but Kenny married, had a son, bought a home and found work in construction. A year later, though, he stopped reporting to his probation officer, Jesse says, in defiance of a no-alcohol provision added to his parole agreement ..

.. Jesse Trentadue enlisted a powerful, yet ultimately impotent, ally in Sen. Orrin Hatch, who confronted then-Attorney General Janet Reno during a Senate hearing in 1997, saying it appeared someone “murdered” Kenny. Hatch also repeatedly promised a Senate Judiciary Committee inquiry which, unlike the Trentadues, could subpoena government witnesses and documents. “Congress isn’t going to go away,” Hatch insisted during an NBC Dateline segment. “We want answers to this.” ..

http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2006/feat_2006-06-01.cfm

sat photos, when they can get all the ones they want from NRO?

IIRC, that is how they put the OK Highway Patrol on him, from sat photos in the first place.

other.

The game lots of deviant's with clerical collars play

As bad as some of these "wingnuts" are, there was always something fishy about this case from the beginning. When Ashcroft waited until the case was almost over to produce "missing documents", that tells me he was covering for the FBI. Why would he have to do that unless Hoover's finest did something wrong or illegal?