A decade after Oklahoma City, FBI wrestles with demons

[The Straight Story]

A decade after Oklahoma City, FBI wrestles with demons
By Chris Strohm
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Ten years ago this month, a Ryder truck rigged with explosives detonated in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people--most of them government employees. It was the deadliest terrorist act in the United States, until the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who served in the Army together during the first Gulf War, were convicted for the Oklahoma City bombing. McVeigh was executed in 2001 and Nichols is serving a life sentence in prison. But to this day questions linger about whether they acted alone. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has started a new examination into long-standing allegations that others were involved in the plot and that federal officials participated in a cover-up. A spokeswoman said Rohrabacher is looking at the evidence to see whether it warrants a hearing.

Identifying, infiltrating and disrupting terrorist plots has become the FBI's primary focus. And effectively collecting, analyzing and sharing counterterrorism information has become the Holy Grail for the intelligence community.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence recently that one of his greatest concerns since the Sept. 11 attacks is the lack of information on al Qaeda sleeper cells in the United States.

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[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. i still blame talk radio

people forget just how anti-governement limabugh was back then. funny, considering how we're not allowed to question dumbya these days.

remember gordon liddy used to give out instructions on his show as to the best way to kill ATF agents. these guys were reckless and irresponsible following Waco, and had no problem with endangering us all by putting insane conspiracy theories out thre for any nutcast like mcveigh to follow

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2. the day of the Oklahoma bombing

for some reason I was listening to the Bloviator and he was insistant that the bombing was carried out by Muslims. He was absolutely convinced. He thought the same thing about the anthrax...IT HAD TO BE THE MUSLIMS. I cannot for the life of me remember why I might have been listening to him on those occasions. You'd think his listeners would get the picture that the man is wrong most of the time.