MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND
"Busted Sting Operation" A Fairy Tale Government Ploy Strains Credulity of OKC Author
Attn: Pat Shannan @ Media Bypass Magazine
Among the reasonably informed it has been almost universally accepted that the April 19, 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City was the result of a government sting operation gone awry. It was discovered very soon after the bombing that BATF agents were curiously absent from their duties within the building itself indicating that someone in government, at least within the BATF, may have had prior knowledge about a plan to blow up the Murrah Building. When informed victims (particularly Edye Smith) began voicing their concerns about the lack of BATF agents present in the building when the bombs exploded, excuses and lies about certain agents' heroic experiences began emanating from the BATF public relations experts.
Immediately after the bombing it was also reported and then confirmed by Bomb Squad experts, that unexploded bombs larger than the one responsible for the explosion inside the building had been located, removed from the building and successfully defused. Within a few hours after the bombing these accurate, early reports were changed to convince listeners and viewers that the additional bombs discovered were, in reality, just training devices. The reported explosion inside the building would disappear completely from all future news reports. To a thinking person, bombs discovered inside the Murrah Building itself might suggest the possibility of an inside job so the facts had to be altered quickly to end widespread suspicion of any government complicity.
In spite of the "changing of facts" by the media and pressure by government as well as other victims' family members, the late Glen Wilburn, his wife Kathy and their daughter Edye Smith just wouldn't shut up about the probability that some in government had prior knowledge. Although prior knowledge doesn't necessarily prove complicity, it certainly brings it within the realm of possibility......Enter: Government damage control agents to promote the believable and very convincing "blown sting operation theory." The primary subjects that needed convincing to help spread the word were Glen, Kathy, Edye, James Nichols and yours truly.
We must keep in mind, if government involvement in such a horrendous crime is suspected and can eventually be proven, the walls would come tumbling down around some of the heretofore untouchables. But, if the people could be convinced this was a sting operation gone bad, there would be no criminal accountability, only financial compensation for victims which, technically costs the government nothing. The losses, if you can call them that, are passed along to the taxpayers, if you call them that.
It has been rumored and then reported that the feds expected this bombing would take place in the wee hours of the morning on April 19, 1995. This conveniently explains why so many people witnessed unusual things in and around the Murrah Building during the days and hours prior to the explosions.
Some witnesses have told investigators they saw a construction crew working on the foundation in the parking garage under the Murrah Building just a few days before the explosions. Two other witnesses working in the Federal Courthouse across the street claim to have seen persons with flashlights going floor to floor inside the Murrah Building sometime between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. on April 19th. There were no regular maintenance or security personnel on duty and no one was supposed to be inside the building at that time. Other witnesses saw what they thought were law enforcement agents, including BATF and Bomb Squad personnel, around the Murrah Building several hours before the bombing.
At first thought, these sightings would clearly indicate that the feds were preparing for a sting operation. But to accept the "blown sting theory," one first has to believe that the feds, somewhere along the way, lost track of the Ryder "bomb truck" and that the truck didn't show up as planned. The first problem we had with this theory was the visibility of the agents who were allegedly waiting to pounce on the terrorists. If you were an FBI, BATF or Bomb Squad agent getting into position to initiate a sting operation, would you be walking around with big letters BATF or BOMB SQUAD written on your back in plain sight for someone to see or would you be just a little less visible?
Just imagine, for the moment, that you are an agent of the FBI or BATF and for quite some time you have been intimately involved in a terrorist sting operation. Your job is to intercept a gang of terrorists just before they light a fuse to a massive bomb in front of a large, new federal building in downtown Oklahoma City. You and dozens of other agents have dedicated your every waking hour, your very souls to this project. For months you have been planning and preparing for this very moment. This is the climax that you and all of your colleagues have been anticipating. You will actually be involved in stopping the most elaborately planned act of terrorism in the history of this country, the real crime of the century. You will be responsible for saving hundred of lives. You will literally be a part of history.
Right now is the most important moment in your career, in your life! You're thinking to yourself: "It's 3 a.m. and they should be arriving soon. Stay alert....Now it's 4a.m. and they're an hour late.... It's 6 a.m.....The building's still empty and the terrorists aren't here yet. Maybe they got a flat tire. I sure hope they get here before the streets get busy with traffic and people start going inside the Murrah Building....It's 7:30 and they still aren't here yet? It's 8:30. The streets are loaded with traffic and the building is filling with people. The heck with it. I'm going home or maybe I'll just go the golf course and play with Bob Ricks and the rest of the good ol' boys."
As you can see, if this ridiculous theory were true, every BATF agent or any other agent assigned to this case would have had to come to the same conclusion at exactly the same time, or at least by 8:30 a.m. They couldn't have had any concern whatsoever about the hundreds or maybe even thousands of people in and around the proposed target. They couldn't have left any agents behind, just in case the bad guys were a few hours late. The feds couldn't have left anyone standing guard, monitoring the situation for a couple of days or even a couple of hours just for safety's sake.
If you choose to believe in J.D. Cash's "blown sting operation" theory you have to choose not to believe the witnesses who saw the Ryder truck, white four-door sedan, brown pickup, men in camos and the men in suits at Geary Lake on April 10-12, indicating a government operation.
You have to choose not to believe rescue workers at the scene who claim to have seen fulminate of mercury canisters inside the Murrah Building after the explosions. You have to choose not to believe some survivors of the bombing who felt a rumble and had time to hide under their desks before the primary charges exploded.
You have to choose to believe that the support columns were not sheared as the result of an inside job but were instead knocked over by air blast pressure. You have to choose not to believe an FBI agent with 25 years demolition experience who said you have to "bore in to bring those columns down." You have to choose not to believe General Partin and many other experts who have said that air blast pressure could not possibly have sheared those columns.
You have to choose not to believe the witnesses who saw persons with flashlights going floor to floor inside the Murrah Building in the wee hours of the morning while other witnesses saw BATF and Bomb Squad personnel standing guard outside. You have to choose not to believe all of the early reports about bombs being removed from the building.
You have to choose to believe that Bomb Squad professionals could not find the planted bombs inside the Murrah Building before the explosions. You have to choose to believe that Bomb Squad professionals could not read and therefore could not tell the difference between a clearly marked training device and a real bomb and, because of that incompetence, allowed seriously injured victims to bleed to death while they twice ordered the area to be evacuated because of those "non-bombs."
You have to choose not to believe FBI whistle-blowers who have stated in court, under oath, that the FBI has falsified and tainted evidence in this case. You have to choose to believe that the government had nothing to hide when they imploded the Murrah Building , filled in the crater and refused to allow defense investigators even one little speck of virgin rubble for independent analysis.
You have to choose to believe that, after months of preparation, during the final hours of a carefully planned sting operation, dozens of federal agents with all of the power and resources of the federal government at their fingertips, lost track of a couple of big, yellow, slow moving Ryder trucks, 5,000 pounds of ANFO, two yellow 1977 Mercury jalopies (at least one of which was allegedly parked only a block away), and several conspirators. You also have to believe that these dedicated federal agents simultaneously decided to abandon the operation and to abandon hundreds of innocent citizens in the Murrah Building simply because the bomb truck didn't show up on time!
And finally, I think you have to choose to believe in the Tooth Fairy, kids!!
Bob Papovich Author - "Freedom's End: Conspiracy In Oklahoma"