Feds Knew About Oklahoma City Bombing a Day Before It Happened

What is the one thing significant about the federal government's actions after the Oklahoma City bombing? Give up? Oklahoma City marked the creation of the Patriot Act--the intrusive, non-patriotic power the federal government now uses to spy on its people. Of course, after Joe Biden wrote the Patriot Act, it would take 9/11 for Congress to quickly pass it into law. Yet, terrorist act after terrorist act our politicians remind us that we must not let terrorism change our way of life.

It's coming out today that our federal government may have known about the Oklahoma City bombing the day before it happened.


New documents released under the Freedom of Information Act confirm that the FBI received a phone call the day before the Oklahoma City bombing warning that the attack was imminent, and that the feds tried to reach a deal with bomber Terry Nichols to take the death penalty off the table if he admitted making the call.

The documents were released to Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue, who in the course of of a 15 year battle in trying to ascertain why his brother was tortured to death during an FBI interrogation related to the case, has all but proven the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building was an inside job run by FBI agents who were handling Timothy McVeigh.

“What that indicates to me, there is a record somewhere of that phone call and the FBI needs to explain it,” said Trentadue in an interview with KTOK News. “If the call was from one of their informants with McVeigh, clearly, they had knowledge of the bombing and didn’t stop it.”

The feds’ attempt to make Nichols accept responsibility for the phone call occurred in 2005 after Nichols was visited by an attorney named Michael Selby who claimed he was working for the government and would guarantee Nichols was spared the death penalty if he played ball in covering up FBI foreknowledge and involvement in the bombing plot.

“This was the first I had ever heard of such a telephone call having made made,” said Nichols in an affidavit filed recently in Utah U.S. District court. “And I told Mr. Selby that as well as the fact that I had not made that telephone call.”

Are our Constitutional rights being jeopardized for incidents the federal government could have prevented? It seems quite likely to me.