Lawyer says Oklahoma City bombing tapes edited
BY NOLAN CLAY
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Published: September 28, 2009
A Utah attorney claims the FBI edited some security camera videotapes from the morning of the Oklahoma City bombing before releasing the recordings to him.
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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,”
Jesse Trentadue told
The Associated Press Sunday.
"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.”
Trentadue is conducting a personal inquiry into the attack. Trentadue made similar statements to
The Oklahoman in the weeks before giving the newspaper copies of the security camera recordings. He provided them because of their historical value.
The recordings cover hours.
The Oklahoman Sunday put online excerpts from the recordings from cameras at Southwestern Bell and the public library.
None of the recordings show the bomb truck exploding outside the
Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building at 9:02 a.m.
A review of the tapes by
The Oklahoman shows some cameras, like the one at the library, clearly record the moment of the explosion. Some do not. A tape from the Regency Tower, an apartment building west of the Murrah Building, turns to static. The time on the Regency Tower tape is 9 a.m. A Southwestern Bell tape skips a few seconds and also goes black briefly. The time on that tape is 8:59 a.m. and 9 a.m. However, many clocks on the tapes are slower than the actual time and the glitches could be from the explosion itself.
Trentadue began looking into the bombing after his brother,
Kenneth Trentadue, died at the
Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center in August 1995.
The brother was never a bombing suspect, but Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mistook his brother for one and beat him to death during an interrogation.
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You can bet OKC Police homicide detectives were among those who beat Kenneth Trentadue to death
I must agree that there are some off the wall conspiracies out there. But, with regard to the Murrah Building Bombing, there is solid, fact-based evidence that was ignored by the FBI which allowed the true masterminds of the crime to walk free. It's no coincidence that Hussain Al-Hussaini is now on the terror watch list and cannot be found. READ THE BOOK! "The Third Terrorist", Jayna Davis. NY Times Best Seller
percy sounds like the clintons, we dare you to find the evidence (knowingly they had buried it with the bodies)and by his blabbering he also sounds like a so called "law enforcement" butthead, so you know that he will never ever tell the truth
who knows, maybe the missing tape was showing one our infamous stae cops headlocking or kicking some one elsew, who knows?
Had to make that correction.
Coincidence you don't believe in precisely because there is no evidence available, but conspiracy you do believe in precisely because there is no evidence available. Go figure.
Just for the record, those Murrah Building surveillance tape omissions also fail to show the comings and goings of undercover agents for the FBI and the ATF immediately prior to the bombing. To expose these comings and goings and risk exposing their identities to the very people who have the most to gain from eliminating those agents is unconscionable. But sometimes lawyers don't care about such things in their quest to win at all costs. Especially when an argument about "coincidence" is one they can handle, and an argument about threats to national security is not. Never blame an attorney for raising an argument he feels confident he can defeat while hiding one he cannot. Not if he has a personal stake in the outcome. After all, if he can discredit law enforcement with a conspiracy theory in the one instance, maybe he can discredit law enforcement with a conspiracy theory in his brother's case.
I'm not suggesting a conspiracy but just a lot of cloak and dagger stuff on the part of the F.B.I. on which it thrives. As for the J.F.K. incident if you want to follow a thriller of a conspiracy focus on the death of officer J. D. Tippit who was killed by Lee Harvey. I've gone as far as visiting the theatre and talked to the operator of the day. I started out mainly as a theatre enthusiast and when I learned that officer Tippit was considerably out of his patrol district and he had possibly stopped by Oswald's home it interested me. Then when I learned that a witness says that Tippit called Oswald by name it got considerably interesting to me. Wow, not a random killing but Oswald was about to be arrested by a man who knew him and Oswald was not going to be the patsy.
The seat where Oswald was arrested has a plaque if you ever visit it. Thankfully the Dallas Art Commission bought the theatre and converted it much like they did to the Plaza for the Lyric system.
And, when his next-of-kin was finally informed of his "suicide" while in Federal custody, they ever so kindly offered to have the body CREMATED by the Bureau of Prisons. Gratis.
His family declined, and upon examining the body, verified that he had been savagely beaten. The post-mortem photographs still exist on the Internet.
Without admitting to anything, the Bureau of Prisons paid the Trentadue Family $1.1 million for "suffering".
The deceased man's brother, Jesse Trentadue, an attorney, has been tenaciously pursuing this matter since 1995.