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Field Offices Assure FBI All McVeigh Files Are In
By Lois Romano and Cheryl W. Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, May 16, 2001; Page A03
FBI field offices across the country yesterday assured top officials
that they have no more records related to the Oklahoma City bombing
case, meeting a 9 a.m. deadline set by FBI Director Louis J. Freeh
after several more items trickled in from the Baltimore field office
last week, officials said.
Freeh ordered 100 FBI offices to certify in writing that they had sent
all bombing files to the Oklahoma City field office after 3,135 pages of
material surfaced last week, six days before convicted bomber Timothy
J. McVeigh was to be executed.
"We've been assured by the . . . offices that there should be no more
records," an FBI official said yesterday.
On Friday, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft delayed McVeigh's
execution until June 11 to give his lawyers time to review the new
files, which should have been turned over to McVeigh before his June
1997 trial.
A day earlier, seven additional items were found in Baltimore.
Officials said nothing in that material casts doubt on McVeigh's guilt
or innocence, the same position they took on the witness statements,
tapes, photographs and other documents turned over to McVeigh's defense
lawyers last week.
Meanwhile, McVeigh's attorneys were ambushed this week by an unexpected
source -- their own client. In a letter to the Houston Chronicle
written before his execution was delayed, McVeigh states unequivocally
that there was no "John Doe No. 2" -- a suspect who was described by
witnesses soon after the blast but never materialized.
Legal experts have said that McVeigh could benefit from the recently
discovered FBI files by challenging his death sentence -- if the
materials point to other potential suspects. When sentencing McVeigh to
death in June 1997, the jury could have considered as a mitigating
factor whether other suspects may have played a dominant role in the
April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which
killed 168 people.
McVeigh's lawyers already must address their client's claim in a new
book that he alone masterminded the bombing.
Attorney Rob Nigh, who could not be reached for comment today, indicated
Saturday that McVeigh's admission to the book's authors does not
constitute evidence. And Richard Burr, who is advising the defense,
said: "If the evidence [in the FBI documents] is more credible than what
he says . . . [his words] will matter less."
Nigh and co-counsel Nathan Chambers will meet with McVeigh at the
federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Ind., today, the original date
scheduled for McVeigh's execution.
McVeigh's comments to the Houston Chronicle were in response to
questions from the paper about claims by his former attorney, Stephen
Jones, that there was a larger conspiracy.
"Does anyone honestly believe that if there was a John Doe #2 (there is
not), that Stephen Jones would still be alive? . . . Think about
it," McVeigh wrote in the letter, dated May 2.
Many of the newly discovered FBI documents pertain to tips that flowed
into FBI offices in the days immediately after the bombing about a
swarthy man in a baseball cap identified as "John Doe No. 2." They also
involve an elusive figure named Robert Jacques.
The FBI apparently tried to locate Jacques after a Missouri real estate
agent said he appeared with McVeigh and co-conspirator Terry Nichols
before the bombing to purchase a piece of property in the Ozarks.
Also yesterday, Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), chairman of the
Senate Intelligence Committee, said that the FBI has had "too many
failures, too many blunders" of late -- and that the mistakes are
undermining the confidence of the American people.
Shelby called for "a broad review of the FBI, its mission, its problems
and some solutions," after his committee met privately with Freeh.
Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) plans Judiciary Committee hearings on the
McVeigh matter, and Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) intends to propose
creation of a separate inspector general for the FBI, supplanting the
Justice Department's IG there.
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