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{{This is an 'anonymous' publication that is really
covering the search for the co-conspirators in the OKC bombing. Lots of
good articles and information. }}
~Amelia~
Subject: NJDT,V.1.No.3: JOHN DOE #2 Loose Upon the World
Again. THE NEW JOHN DOE TIMES Volume 1, No. 3 Friday, 11 May 2001 ***JOHN DOE #2 UPDATE: HE'S LOOSE!!! ***BOP Confirms Brescia Released Almost A Year Early!!! ALSO: ***FBI TELLS NEW YORK TIMES: "THE COMPUTER ATE OUR HOMEWORK"!!??!! ***FEDERAL BUREAU OF INCOMPETENCE?: McVeigh & Nichols Denied "Brady" Material ***DO YOU THINK THE FOIA REQUESTS FILED BY J.D. CASH & Lt. Col. ROGER CHARLES MIGHT HAVE HAD JUST A TEENSY-WEENSY THING TO DO WITH THE DISCOVERY? ***Connection Between Document Dump & Brescia Release? Inquiring Minds Want To Know. ***"We're Shocked! Shocked! To Find A Coverup Going On Here....." AND: ***LONDON INDEPENEDENT READS JOHN DOE TIMES, DISCOVERS McVEIGH-ARA CONNECTION! ***ALMOST THE WHOLE ENCHILADA!! INDEPENDENT LAYS IT ALL OUT IN 4-PART STORY.. **************************************************************************** **************************************************************************** **** From the Editor, Well, once again things are breaking fast and furious on the OKC bombing story. Michael Brescia, we now discover, was released from Federal Correctional Institution Schuykill, PA almost a year early. Journalist-correspondents of the New John Doe Times are working overtime to find his little-white supremacist gluteus maximus (that's a classical reference for those of you who haven't seen "Gladiator"). Hard upon the news of the premature end of Mikey's Landsberg Prison gig (if you don't understand the reference, check out the indroduction to "Mein Kampf" by A. Schicklegruber), comes the announcement that "boxes and boxes" of FBI documents mostly relating to John Doe #2 information, were withheld by the FBI from the McVeigh and Nichols defense teams. Six days before the execution! How could this happen??? clucked the talking heads. Well, let me give you a New John Doe Times clue....Since September of last year, Lt. Col. (retd)Roger Charles & dogged McCurtain County (OK) Gazette reporter J.D. Cash have been filing numerous, detailed Freedom of Information Act requests of various federal agencies including the FBI. If the FBI was "archiving" it was because they had been prompted to by these FOIA requests. We will have more in the next issue about how these requests may have played into the "discovery." Also, the London Independent has just published the most detailed series of stories on the McVeigh-ARA connection ever seen (unless you count the John Doe Times). These are a must read, especially for new readers of the JDT/NJDT. Query: What does Mike Brescia's early release have to do with the "document dump"? Nothing or everything? Stay tuned, gentle reader. Stay tuned. **************************************************************************** **** ***JOHN DOE #2 LOOSE AGAIN UPON THE WORLD..... ***MIKE BRESCIA'S LANDSBERG PRISON GIG CUT SHORT..... ***SO, DO YOU SUPPOSE HE'S GOING TO TAKE UP KNITTING AS A SECOND CAREER? I GUESS BEING A BANK TELLER'S OUT OF THE QUESTION. ***J.D. CASH OBSERVES: "HE'S LEARNED A WHOLE NEW TRADE, HE'LL NEVER HAVE TO BUY A LICENSE PLATE AGAIN." -----Original Message----- From: JD Cash [REDACTED] Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:41 AM To: Vanderboegh, Michael Subject: Our worst nightmare has come true..... He's loose! ----- Original Message ----- From: "OGC Electronic Freedom of Information" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADDRESS REDACTED> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Mike Brescia -Reply -Reply The above inmate was released on 03/22/2001 from FCI Schuylkill, PA. >>> "JD Cash" <ADDRESS REDACTED> 05/08/01 10:18am >>> Please recheck your records. Michael William Brescia was taken into custody by the FBI on 1/30/97 in Philidelphia, Pa. (FBI case 91A PH 80713) Mr. Brescia subsequently pled guilty to a single count of bank robbery and was sentenced to 5 years in a federal prison. His DOB is 5/10/72 His SS #177 52 8776 His BOP #50596 066. ----- Original Message ----- From: "OGC Electronic Freedom of Information" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <ADDRESS REDACTED> Sent: Monday, May 07, 2001 8:19 AM Subject: Mike Brescia -Reply **************************************************************************** ** FBI TELLS NEW YORK TIMES WITH A STRAIGHT FACE: "THE COMPUTER ATE OUR HOMEWORK!" NEW YORK TIMES, 11 May 2001 ***F.B.I. Kept Reports From the Defense in McVeigh's Trial By DAVID JOHNSTON and CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS WASHINGTON, May 10 - The F.B.I. has discovered thousands of pages of interview reports and other materials about the Oklahoma City bombing that the government failed to turn over to a lawyer for Timothy J. McVeigh, Justice Department officials said today. In response, Mr. McVeigh's lawyer said he was weighing whether to seek a delay in his client's execution, which is scheduled for Wednesday. The documents were found by bureau archivists in Oklahoma City as they canvassed the agency's 56 field offices in a final search of records related to the deadly bombing in anticipation of Mr. McVeigh's execution, law enforcement officials said. Lawyers for Mr. McVeigh and for Terry L. Nichols, the other person convicted of the bombing, were legally entitled to review the records as they prepared for the two trials. In a statement tonight, federal prosecutors sounded embarrassed *******************************************************************] NJDT: "Embarrassed"??? You bet, sort of along the lines of "Oh, crap! They caught us!" ******************************************************************* and acknowledged that the materials should have been turned over to Mr. McVeigh's lawyer. But they said they had concluded that the documents were not material to the case and gave no indication that Mr. McVeigh was wrongly convicted of the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building in 1995, which killed 168 people and injured scores of others. ******************************************************************* NJDT: No one other than the looney toons (and culpable) brother of Terry Nichols ever advanced the theory that Tim McVeigh was wrongly convicted. Heck, I'd put a bullet in his testicles myself if I was sure we had all the information from him on "others unknown". But the question is legally framed by the federal statute which says that evidence of co-conspirators must be considered in the death penalty phase to determine culpability. And all these talking heads and Italian-suited lawyers know it too, though I haven't heard any of them say it yet on the tube. ******************************************************************* Still, the disclosure, which was first reported by the major television networks, cast a cloud of uncertainty over the first federal execution since 1963, disrupting what had been a seamlessly methodical march by federal prison officials in Washington and Terre Haute, Ind., toward the execution by lethal injection. The Justice Department spokesman, Mindy Tucker, said in the statement: "On Tuesday, May 8, the Department of Justice notified Timothy McVeigh's attorney of a number of F.B.I. documents that should have been provided to them during the discovery phase of the trial. While the department is confident the documents do not in any way create any reasonable doubt about McVeigh's guilt and do not contradict his repeated confessions of guilt, the Department is concerned that McVeigh's attorneys were not able to review them at the appropriate time." Nathan D. Chambers, Mr. McVeigh's lawyer, said he had not yet been able to review the documents thoroughly after they arrived at his Denver offices today. The material amounted to several thousand pages, Mr. Chambers said. "We have a lot of work to do, including legal research, document review and a discussion with my client of what we have," he said. Saying he had spoken with Mr. McVeigh about the materials this afternoon, Mr. Chambers added that he did not know whether Mr. McVeigh would pursue any new legal options or seek to renew appeals of his death sentence. Any decision would ultimately be made by his client, with his advice, Mr. Chambers added. "All I can tell you at this point is that Mr. McVeigh will consider all his options," the lawyer said. "Habitually and customarily, he reviews issues thoughtfully and carefully. I expect him to do that in this circumstance." Mr. Chambers said the F.B.I.'s handling of the documents was "troubling." **************************************************************** NJDT: "troubling"???? Now there's an understatement. **************************************************************** "Here we are, six years after the bombing, and less than a week before a scheduled execution," he said. "I'm frankly astonished that these documents have just appeared at this late date." Copies of the materials were also sent to lawyers for Mr. Nichols, who said they too were studying them. Justice Department officials asked Mr. McVeigh's lawyer to notify them if he believed that any of the documents created any reasonable doubt about their client's guilt. Mr. McVeigh, who was convicted in 1997 and subsequently waived further appeals, confessed to the bombing in a recently published book. Tonight, Justice Department officials said they had not received any notice that the lawyer would seek to postpone Mr. McVeigh's execution nor had they determined whether they might themselves ask for a delay to explain the belated document discovery to a judge. The documents consist primarily of what are known in the F.B.I. as 302's, reports filed by agents about their interviews, but they also include photographs, correspondence and tapes that had not been shared with the defense in the discovery period before Mr. McVeigh's trial. Law enforcement officials privately blamed the F.B.I.'s antiquated computer system for failing to turn up the additional documents. Because of the unusual nature of the McVeigh case, they said, bureau officials ordered a final manual search for documents from about 40 field offices across the country. Some lawyers said the documents might ultimately have little impact on the execution and cause little more than a brief flurry of legal activity in advance of a death sentence. ****************************************************************** NJDT: "The computer ate my homework"???? Aren't these the same guys who were BRAGGING about their computer-assisted investigation in 1995-1996-1997? You bet they are. But the reporters they feed this crap to are too stupid/lazy to even realized their being jazzed. What fools. ****************************************************************** The planned execution has attracted worldwide attention because of the horrific nature of Mr. McVeigh's crimes, the Justice Department's decision to broadcast the execution to survivors' and victims' families by closed circuit television and the rarity of federal executions. Stephen Jones, who led the defense team at trial, predicted that the disclosure today could lead to a stay. "My guess, since it embarrasses the government, is that McVeigh will ask for a stay," said Mr. Jones, who called the F.B.I.'s admission that information was withheld a personal "vindication." "I said all along they weren't giving us everything," Mr. Jones said. The issue of whether the government was obligated to turn over F.B.I. documents to the defense has already been litigated unsuccessfully in the case of Mr. Nichols. In December 2000 a federal appeals court panel denied his motion for a new trial on the grounds that the bureau withheld information that could have helped his case. After Mr. Nichols's trial, lawyers said the government failed to turn over more than 35,000 "lead sheets," or reports that came from witness interviews after the bombing. But the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, in Denver, ruled that even if the government had turned over the material in a timely manner, it would not have provided "a reasonable chance of changing the outcome." Today, in a letter to Mr. McVeigh's lawyers, Sean Connelly, a special prosecutor, said the Justice Department did not believe any of the documents have "material bearing on the federal convictions or sentences of Timothy McVeigh or Terry Nichols." "We are producing the materials now so you can make your own determinations," Mr. Connelly added. Mr. Connelly said much of the material involved records of tips called in as possible sightings of the bombers. One law enforcement official said, "There were a lot of people who thought they had sightings of John Doe No. 2." The question of whether Mr. McVeigh would seek a postponement came as legal experts said there might be conflict between Mr. McVeigh and his lawyers over whether to press for further consideration of the new information. Although it is a legal axiom that clients, and criminal defendants in particular, are in control of their own cases, courts are often confronted with instances in which lawyers and their clients battle over what is in the best interest of the clients. When those conflicts occur, courts sometimes authorize lawyers to act against the express wishes of their clients. Prof. Charles J. Ogletree Jr., an expert on criminal law at Harvard, said courts under those circumstances often viewed their role as protective of the entire legal system, not just the defendant, and permitted lawyers offering important information to make a case before the courts even if it was against a defendant's express wishes. In an instance like the one presented in Mr. McVeigh's case, Mr. Ogletree said, a court might permit the current team of lawyers to make legal motions against Mr. McVeigh's wishes and might then appoint another team of lawyers to argue Mr. McVeigh's assertion that his current lawyers had no authority to act. ******************************************************************* **ALMOST THE WHOLE ENCHILADA!! INDEPENDENT RUNS 4-PART SERIES ON McVEIGH-ARA CONNECTION!! **ANOTHER JOURNALIST GETS HIS STORY FROM THE JOHN DOE TIMES... ********************************************************************* EDITOR'S NOTE: SPACE LIMITATIONS FORBID US FROM RUNNING THE ENTIRE SERIES HERE. WE HAVE REPRINTED BELOW ONLY THE FIRST OF FOUR PARTS. YOU MUST, UNDERLINE MUST, GO TO THE INDEPENDENT WEB-SITE TO READ THE ENTIRE FOUR-PART SERIES. THEIR WEBSITE IS: www.newsindependent.co.uk London Independent McVeigh 'did not act alone in Oklahoma bombing' By Andrew Gumbel in Terre Haute, Indiana 11 May 2001 Internal links The Oklahoma conspiracy. A special report by Andrew Gumbel For six years, there have been suspicions that Timothy McVeigh did not act alone when he bombed the federal building in Oklahoma City. Today, The Independent reveals he was part of an underground network of white-supremacist guerrillas dedicated to the overthrow of the American government, and explains how the group kept its role hidden for so long. Known as the Aryan Republican Army, the network came to light five years ago when its leaders were arrested for 22 bank robberies committed across the Midwest from late 1993 until several months after the April 1995 bombing. They were prosecuted and imprisoned for the robberies, but their links to the Oklahoma bomb never came out in court. Those have emerged through the efforts of a handful of reporters, academics and relatives of the bombing victims who found copies of confidential prosecution documents, saw written and video material recovered from the gang and interviewed some of the protagonists. It is now believed the ARA financed and helped to stage the bombing, the worst peacetime atrocity on US soil, which claimed 168 lives including 19 children. There is also evidence that McVeigh, who faces death by lethal injection at a US penitentiary in Indiana next Wednesday, was part of the robbery gang and participated in at least the planning stage of some of the hold-ups. The Independent's Review section today demolishes the theory that McVeigh was alone in Oklahoma City on the morning of the bombing. It shows why many of the claims made by McVeigh in a series of interviews for the recently published book American Terrorist do not stand up to scrutiny. It also explains why the Federal Bureau of Investigation and government prosecutors gave up their efforts to find his accomplices. It describes the extraordinary exploits of the ARA's two ringleaders, Pete Langan and Richard Guthrie, accomplished career criminals who happened to be secret cross-dressers as well as virulent exponents of racist anti-government ideology. The Independent has obtained a 300-page handwritten memoir penned by Guthrie in prison before he was found hanging from a bedsheet in his cell in July 1996. In it, he names one of the robbery gang members as a certain "Tim". The links between the ARA and McVeigh were established in 1993 and continued regularly until the time of the bombing. All of them led frantically itinerant lifestyles, driving cross-country and staying in motels under assumed names, but on several occasions were in the same place at the same time on similar business. In January 1995, all of them abruptly left Kansas for a six-week stint in Arizona where there is evidence that a trial fertiliser bomb was exploded in the desert. The ARA developed the notion of "leaderless resistance", a cell-based guerrilla structure in which individual members knew next to nothing about each other. Operating out of a safe-house in eastern Kansas, it also developed contacts with various far-right groups including a white supremacist religious compound in Oklahoma, Elohim City, which has long been suspected of involvement in the bombing. END |
