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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 409
McVeigh's accomplices suddenly became non-existent and Mcveigh became the lone bomber.
Representative Key's maintains that the US government simply did not attempt to apprehend all
the bombing suspects.
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Intimidation And Suppression Of Witnesses
William F. Jasper writing for the The New American reported that “McVeigh's defense
team had sought to have [ATF and FBI informant Carol] Howe testify concerning her allegations
that she had warned her federal supervisors prior to the [Oklahoma City] bombing that subjects
of her investigation were planning to bomb federal buildings, including the one in Oklahoma
City. But jurors in the Denver trial of McVeigh never heard Carol Howe's name mentioned in
court, nor did they hear her testimony. Federal prosecutors filed motions to prevent her
appearance as a defense witness” and US District Judge Richard Matsch approved the motion.
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The FBI leaked Howe's name in a report. This put her life in danger and she had to
convince her “comrades” that she was not an informant in order to stay alive. Howe was then
charged with crimes in connection with her investigation and the actions she had to take in order
to stay alive. She was “charged with possession of an illegal explosive device, conspiracy to
make a bomb threat, and making a bomb threat.” Her attorney Clark O. Brewster, claimed the
prosecution was “'retaliatory,' intended to dissuade her from revealing potentially damaging
information she has about the [Oklahoma City] bombing.”
Howe was found innocent of all charges. Mrs. Kathy Wilburn who lost two grandchildren
in the bombing attended the trial. She reported the following to The New American: “It is
transparent to many observers that the government's entire case against Carol Howe was a
diversion and a retaliatory act meant to stop her from exposing embarrassing facts which key
people in the government desperately want to remain buried... I think it's appalling that the
government prosecuted this girl for doing exactly what they hired her to do, while at the same
time allowing... [others] implicated [in the bombing] off scott-free.” She further stated: “Carol
Howe's testimony and the ATF records lend very strong, additional support to all of the other
evidence and eyewitness testimony -- the bomb squads being at the building before the
explosion, the ATF agents being out of their offices, other undercover informants -- indicating
that the government did have prior warning.”
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After the bombing another informant suffered reprisal. FBI informant Gagan had his
immunity withdrawn by the government without ever being informed. He filed a civil suite
against the government for withdrawing his immunity and for “attempting to prevent him from
testifying in the criminal and civil trials resulting” from the bombing according to the Final
Report issued by the OCBIC. The commission further stated that Gagan “alleged the government
took this action in order to cover up their wronging in not acting on the bomb warning he had
provided to them.”
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Hoppy Heidelberg was a member of the federal grand jury that indicted Timothy
McVeigh and Terry Nichols before being dismissed. As was his duty, he asked many probing
and difficult questions. He asked questions about the middle eastern connection, about FBI prior
knowledge and about ATF involvement. He says that after asking such questions, and after the
judge called him and discovered he had taken home some notes, two FBI agents came to his
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