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    Trial begins in case over Oklahoma City bombing

    Trial begins in case over Oklahoma City bombing

    By BRADY McCOMBS and TIM TALLEY, Associated Press
    July 28, 2014 | Updated: July 28, 2014 12:29pm

    Photo By Rick Bowmer/AP
    • In this July 16, 2014, photo, Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue holds a photograph of his brother taken in the early 80's showing his dragon tattoo on his left forearm which fit the description the FBI was circulating of "John Doe 2", during an interview, in Salt Lake City. Trentadue's quest to explain his brother’s mysterious jail cell death has rekindled long-dormant questions about whether others were involved in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Trentadue's Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the federal government goes to trial Monday, July 28, 2014, in Salt Lake City.


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    SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Attorneys for the FBI have told a federal judge in Utah that the agency has found no evidence that unreleased Oklahoma City bombing videos exist.

    The comments came during the first day of a trial triggered by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue.


    He says the FBI won't release videos that show a second person was with Timothy McVeigh when he parked a truck outside the Oklahoma City federal building and detonated a bomb that killed 168 people.


    The government says McVeigh was alone.


    U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups sent the case to trial after remaining unsatisfied with the FBI's responses in the five years since the lawsuit was filed.


    FBI attorneys intend to call bureau employees to testify that the agency did a thorough search and how additional efforts would be burdensome and fruitless.


    The trial is scheduled to last three days.

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    The trial was triggered by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Trentadue filed in 2008. Unsatisfied by the FBI's previous explanations, U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups ordered the FBI to explain why it can't find videos from the bombing that are mentioned in evidence logs, citing the public importance of the tapes.

    Updated: July 28, 2014 2:52pm

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    Witness: More Oklahoma Bombing Videos May Exist

    Witness: More Oklahoma Bombing Videos May Exist

    SALT LAKE CITY — Jul 30, 2014, 5:37 PM ET
    By BRADY McCOMBS Associated Press



    A police officer who was at the scene of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing said Wednesday during a Utah trial that he saw surveillance cameras at the federal building that may have recorded the attack.


    Former Oklahoma City police officer Don Browning testified by video that he saw FBI agents climbing ladders and taking cameras off the federal building shortly after the attack that killed 168 people.


    Under cross-examination, Browning acknowledged he doesn't know if the cameras were operational, or if video was ever collected from them.


    Browning was one of several witnesses to take the stand as Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue tries to persuade a federal judge that a video exists showing Timothy McVeigh was not alone in detonating the bomb, and that the FBI has not adequately searched its archives for the security camera video.


    Trentadue believes the presence of a second suspect explains why his brother, who resembled a police sketch of a suspect, was flown to Oklahoma months after the bombing. His brother died in a federal holding cell.


    Jannie Coverdale, whose two grandsons were killed in the bombing, said there were surveillance cameras on the apartment building where she lived that pointed toward the federal building that should have recorded the bomb going off. Coverdale said she observed a police officer and FBI agent in the building six months later talking about collecting the tapes, but she couldn't recall their names. Like Browning, she said that she doesn't know if the camera worked or was filming at the time.


    Joe Cooley, whose security company was preparing a bid to handle security for the federal building, said he saw several exterior cameras on the building three months prior to the bombing while getting a tour. He said he didn't know if they were operational.


    The trial will decide whether the FBI must do additional searches for security camera videos. It's a bench trial, meaning there is no jury and U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups will issue a ruling.


    If he wins, Trentadue hopes to be able to search for the tapes himself rather than having to accept the FBI's answer that they don't exist.


    The case has rekindled long-dormant questions about whether others than McVeigh and co-conspirator Terry Nichols were involved in the 1995 attack, a theory that has been hovering over the trial.


    "Timothy McVeigh wasn't smart enough to plan that bombing and carry it out by himself," Coverdale said. "I still believe there are some guilty people walking the streets."


    The trial stems from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Trentadue filed against the FBI in 2008. Unsatisfied by the FBI's previous explanations and citing the public importance of the tapes, Waddoups ordered the agency to explain why it can't find the videos.


    The FBI has given Trentadue 30 video recordings, but none shows the explosion or McVeigh's arrival in the truck.


    Kenneth Trentadue bore a striking resemblance to a police sketch based on witness descriptions of "John Doe No. 2," who was never identified.


    The government says McVeigh was alone in the truck, and said it later discovered the suspect in the sketch was not involved.


    Trentadue's belief that the tapes exists stems from a Secret Service document written after the bombing that describes security footage of the attack that shows suspects exiting the truck three minutes before the bomb detonated. A Secret Service agent testified in 2004 that the log does, in fact, exist but that the government knows of no videotape.


    The FBI has brought employees to the stand to explain how the agency has searched its archives and found no evidence of more videos. Additional searches would be burdensome and fruitless, they say.


    On Thursday, the FBI plans to call a former General Services Administration employee, who managed operations at the federal building when it was bombed. He is expected to discuss whether the surveillance cameras were operational.


    Charlie Hanger, the Oklahoma highway patrolman who arrested McVeigh in 1995 and who is now a county sheriff, is also set to testify. Trentadue wants a video taken from Hanger's patrol car dash camera. An FBI employee testified that the video was returned to Oklahoma highway patrol several years ago.

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    Witnesses at Utah trial: No security-camera videos show Oklahoma City bombing blast

    By Brady Mccombs
    Associated Press
    Published: Thursday, July 31 2014 1:36 p.m. MDT
    Updated: 1 hour ago


    Summary
    The FBI capped off its attempt to persuade a federal judge that it is not hiding unreleased surveillance videos from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by bringing witnesses Thursday who testified that there has never been any security-camera videos of the bomb going off.


    SALT LAKE CITY — The FBI capped off its attempt to persuade a federal judge that it is not hiding unreleased surveillance videos from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing by bringing witnesses Thursday who testified that there has never been any security-camera videos of the bomb going off.

    Richard Williams, then assistant building manager with General Services Administration, said in the Salt Lake City trial that outside surveillance cameras pointing at where the bomb was detonated had not been operational for at least two year before the bombing.

    "Everything that went on in the building went through us or in conjunction with us," Williams said by video from Houston.
    Retired FBI agent Stephen Brannan said he investigated allegations that two FBI agents tried to sell surveillance videos showing the bombing to a network TV news station for $1 million and determined it was a hoax. He said agents in Oklahoma told him unequivocally that there were no videos showing Timothy McVeigh arriving to the building in a Ryder truck or getting out.

    Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue believes a video exists showing McVeigh was not alone in detonating the bomb. The government says McVeigh was the only one who detonated the bomb, which killed 168 people.


    Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the FBI in 2008, saying the FBI has not adequately searched its archives for the security-camera video.


    Trentadue said he believes the presence of a second suspect explains why his brother, who resembled a police sketch of a suspect, was flown to Oklahoma months after the bombing. His brother died in a federal holding cell.


    If he wins, Trentadue hopes to be able to search for the tapes himself rather than having to accept the FBI's answer that they don't exist.


    The trial is expected to conclude Thursday.

    There is no jury, and U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups is expected to rule at a later date.


    The testimony from Williams and Brannan came a day after a former police officer who was at the bombing scene said he saw FBI agents climbing ladders and taking cameras off the federal building shortly after the attack that killed 168 people.


    A woman who lost her two grandsons in the bombing also said Wednesday there were surveillance cameras in an apartment building she lived in that should have recorded the bomb going off. She said she observed a police officer and FBI agent in the building six months later talking about collecting the tapes.


    Both acknowledged under cross-examination that they didn't know if the cameras were operational, or if video was ever collected from them.


    The FBI also brought to testify Thursday a former Oklahoma highway patrolman who arrested McVeigh after the bombing.

    Charles Hanger, now a county sheriff in Oklahoma, said the video from his dash-cam recorder does not show McVeigh or have any sound. Hanger said he didn't turn on the camera until McVeigh was seated in his patrol car and didn't get sound because he hit the wrong buttons on the machine.


    As part of his request, Trentadue has asked to see the dash-cam video. An FBI employee testified that the video was returned to Oklahoma highway patrol several years ago.


    The case reached trial because Waddoups was unsatisfied by the FBI's previous explanations. The judge also cited the public importance of the tapes. The FBI has given Trentadue 30 video recordings, but none shows the explosion or McVeigh's arrival in the truck.


    Trentadue's belief that the tape exists stems from a Secret Service document written after the bombing that describes security footage of the attack that shows suspects exiting the truck three minutes before the bomb detonated. A Secret Service agent testified in 2004 that the log does, in fact, exist but that the government knows of no videotape.

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    Trial over Oklahoma City bombing video concludes

    Posted: Thursday, July 31, 2014 4:34 pm
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    SALT LAKE CITY — A four-day trial to determine if the FBI has done an adequate search for additional videos of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing has come to a close in Salt Lake city.

    U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups didn't issue a ruling Thursday. Instead, he requested final court briefs summarizing arguments from both sides: FBI attorneys and Jesse Trentadue, the Utah man who filed the lawsuit against the federal agency.

    A ruling is likely months away.

    The FBI on Thursday capped off its attempt to persuade Waddoups that it is not hiding unreleased surveillance videos by bringing witnesses who testified that there have never been any security-camera videos of the bomb going off.

    Trentadue says he still believes there is a video showing McVeigh was not alone in detonating the bomb.

    Trentadue says he believes the presence of a second suspect explains why his brother, who resembled a police sketch of a suspect, was flown to Oklahoma months after the bombing. His brother died in a federal holding cell.

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