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Date: March 25, 2007 9:32:48 PM PDT
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Subject: FBI Opposes Inquiry into Murder of Suspect in Oklahoma
City Bombing
FBI objects to lawyer's request
to depose Terry Nichols
Attorney seeking evidence linked to his brother's death in a
federal prison facility in Oklahoma City
By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune, 03/24/2007 01:01:39 AM MDT
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5511347
The FBI on Friday objected to a Utah lawyer's motion to conduct
depositions of Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and
a death-row inmate in a lawsuit that alleges the attorney's brother
was murdered in a federal prison.
Attorney Jesse Trentadue says the two prisoners can provide
valuable information concerning his brother's death in 1995 and the
FBI's alleged refusal to turn over all relevant documents requested
in his Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) suit. He believes
authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and
that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand.
In a memorandum filed in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City,
the FBI argued to Judge Dale Kimball that his authority in a FOIA
case is limited to ordering disclosure of documents.
"FOIA does not confer jurisdiction on this court to order a
wide-ranging and unofficial investigation into the Oklahoma City
bombing or any other type of criminal conduct," Carlie Christensen,
an assistant U.S. attorney, wrote.
She also said that Kimball has determined through earlier
rulings that the FBI searches for documents in response to
Trentadue's requests were reasonable.
Kenneth Trentadue's death at the Federal Transfer Center in
Oklahoma City a few months after the April 19, 1995, bombing was
ruled a suicide after several investigations. The government has
adamantly denied any wrongdoing in his death.
However, the inmate's family rejected those findings and has
continued to press for information on the death. Jesse Trentadue
has filed three FOIA lawsuits asking for documents pertaining to
his brother's incarceration and the Oklahoma City bombing.
In February, he requested an order from Kimball allowing him to
depose Nichols and David Paul Hammer, who is on death row at the
federal penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind., along with affidavits
from the two men.
Nichols says in his affidavit that a high-ranking FBI official
"apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up
the government building and might have changed the original target
of the attack. He alleges he wrote then-Attorney General John
Ashcroft in 2004, offering to help identify all parties who played
a role in the bombing, but never got a reply.
Both Nichols and Hammer - who says he had lengthy conversations
with McVeigh during the 11 months the two were housed on the same
tier at the Terre Haute facility - say McVeigh claimed to be an
undercover operative for the military.
Hammer wrote in his affidavit that McVeigh said he made trips
in the two years before the bombing to a white supremacist
settlement called Elohim City in Adair County, Okla.
McVeigh also claimed he had robbed banks with members of the
"Rob/Bomb Gang," which became known as the Aryan Republic Army,
according to Hammer, and was present when gun dealers delivered
weapons and explosives to Elohim City.
In addition, McVeigh was present at Elohim City in September
1994 when plans were made for the bombing, Hammer wrote. McVeigh
allegedly said government informants were rumored to live at the
settlement.
"He felt this was an advantage for his government-sponsored
activities as word of his actions would be reported not only by him
to his own handler but to others in the government by their own
informants," Hammer wrote.
The FBI told The Oklahoman newspaper that it did not
participate in the bombing or have any advance warning about it.
Nichols is serving a life sentence at the U.S. Penitentiary
Administrative Maximum Facility in Florence, Colo., for his part in
the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which took 168
lives.
McVeigh, who carried out the bombing, was executed in 2001.
Hammer was sentenced to death for the 1996 slaying of a fellow
inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Allenwood, Penn.
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