Having said that, I bought the documentary “A Noble Lie” from Infowars, and recently watched it.
Most of it is crap. It is hearsay, and third hand “somebody once thought they saw so and so doing such and such.” It is poorly organized. A good argument is trenchant, it hits hard, like a rock hitting eggs, as Sun Tzu put it.
The latter half, roughly, though, is useful.
I will offer what to me are the most salient data points which CANNOT be ignored.
The first, and most important, is that the dominant narrative as far as the Ryder truck with 4,800 pounds of exposives CANNOT be true, or at least that is the opinion of people who are clearly experts.
Read this: http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/OK/PARTIN/okm.htm
It is the analysis of Brigadier General Benton Partin. As I understand the matter, explosion analysis was his specialty when he was in the Air Force. Obviously, the Air Force is engaged in dropping bombs, and it only makes sense to have a very good grasp of what sort of bombs and what sized bombs you should use, and where you should drop them, and what you can expect if the job is done properly. Towards this end, the Air Force no doubt has tested a variety of explosives delivered in a variety of means to a variety of targets.
It is very possible to calculate the explosive yield of a truck filled with ammonium nitrate and fuel oil. You can figure out how many blast pounds (I think is the term used) there will be per square inch at a given distance.
And the math yields a very simple and as far as I can tell absolutely incontrovertible result: the amount of force that amount of explosive would have been able to generate was only perhaps 1/10th of what would have been needed to sheer a rebar-reinforced concrete column, even for those CLOSEST to the blast.
This is math. This is physics.
And in point of fact, the Air Forced TESTED THIS scenario, according to the documentary. They put a truck or equivalent full of explosives and blew it up in front of a building. What such an explosion will clearly do is remove or greatly damage the outer walls. All the windows blow in explosively, and anyone in the blast radius will suffer. Most or all of the facing is removed. But structural columns are not damaged. Were not damaged, in the attempted recreation.
The conclusion the general–the specialist, the expert–reaches is that locally placed explosives HAD to have been in place. As he notes, not much would have been needed. The rest of the building was brought down by less than 200 pounds of explosives.
And here is the interesting part: even though the architect of the building certified the building could be rebuilt and was currently safe and stable, even though the building had not yet been inspected by civil engineers capable of determining its safety, and even before all the bodies had been removed, the decision was made to demolish the building.
And the “remains” of the building were removed under armed guard and buried. Why? To what purpose?
It was reported both by news agencies as well as in official police reports that 2 further bombs were found and defused. This was reported only on the first day, and then disappeared, made to vanish down a memory hole. Why? Who determined they needed a new narrative, and who was so effectively able to push it?
I will add to this the testimony of Jane Graham, who was a HUD employee, and President of the local union. As a career member of the government, it would be hard to accuse her of an intrinsic paranoia of government.
She reports having seen men in GSA uniforms looking over blueprints in the parking garage, and having seen a spool of wire and a block of putty, which of course is what people setting explosive charges would look like.
She also reported seeing two different men in GSA uniforms the morning of the bombing, then seeing them in civilian clothes in a video after the bombing, outside the building.
Finally, she herself survived the bombing. I have visited the Memorial, and if memory serves her testimony is featured relatively prominently in the news reel they play there. She says that there was a rumbling, first, then only about 8-10 seconds later was there a blast wave, which broke all the windows and knocked her unconscious. This would be consistent with columns being blown prior to the truck being detonated.
Now let us layer on what appears to be a fact: NONE of the surveillance videos from perhaps a dozen or more cameras inside and outside the Murrough building have been released to the public, despite repeated FOIA requests. The FBI says it can’t find them. Here is a longer version of the story: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/07/trentadue-fbi-oklahoma-city-bombing-evidence
Self evidently, given the footage, it would be quite possible for Graham or others to identify the men in the GSA uniforms, which in turn would allow them to be identified, and very likely implicated. We can, from this fact, infer reliably that SOMEONE with the Bureau has both the power and the motivation to keep this footage out of public hands.
I will add one final piece to the mix: the torture and murder of Kenneth Trentadue while in Federal custody, approximately four months after the bombing. He had multiple wounds on his head, had had his throat cut, and had had his feet beaten. He was also strangled, with death by hanging being declared the official cause of death. He has been pumped full of caffeine, which apparently increases the pain of torture. All his transfer logs, and video footage of his cell area disappeared. The Feds tried to have him cremated, but failed.
It seems clear that FBI agents tortured him and killed him and then covered it up. It also seems likely that they thought he was Richard Lee Guthrie, Jr., who was a white supremacist, and also (like Trentadue) a bank robber. It was not entirely clear in the documentary, but apparently they both have dragon tattoos, I believe on the left arm. Guthrie killed himself in the same manner Trentadue did: hanging via bed sheet in his jail cell. This one seems legitimate, but it also appears, circumstantially, to have been in response to threats. His letter to his brother read: “I’m sure that you’re going to question my motive, but the fact is that I have no intentions of putting our family in harms (sic) way.”
Let’s think about all this. Four months in, the FBI was, I believe, still looking for a John Doe number 2. Multiple people reported seeing McVeigh with another man who fit the description of both Trentadue and Guthrie.
If Oklahoma City was completely a government job, the FBI would know who did it. The fact that they felt the need to do a Jack Bauer on some guy they assumed to be guilty would imply they wanted quite desperately to find someone, or get someone to confess to something they genuinely believed they did.
One allegation floating around is that Oklahoma City may have involved government operatives who were pretending to be white supremacists, but that bombs that were never supposed to have gone off, went off.
Why would this be, though? How could an informant not know bombs were being placed; or, knowing it, fail to report it?
It is possible that the FBI is covering up a major fuck-up. Some of their people may have been involved.
I will have to ponder this for a bit longer. Here is what seems clear, though:
1) The bulk of the structural damage to the building, which caused most of the casualties, was the result of bombs placed on structural supports.
2) This fact has never emerged in a public way. It played no role in the coverage of the bombing, and has to this day never been acknowledged by the government agencies responsible for the investigation, even if some FBI employees did report being pressured to alter lab findings and doctor reports.
3) It appears overwhelmingly likely that the FBI is concealing video footage which would provide us a much better picture of who was involved, and that that picture would involve a lot more people than were arrested and prosecuted.
4) The bombing almost certainly worked to help Clinton demonize the far right, and win reelection. It also served as a model for public acceptance of increasing government surveillance, and erosion of personal rights.
5) In its use of what I would argue was a patsy to cover up a much deeper plot, it bears clear similarities with 9/11. In the first case, you park a truck, blow the building, then blow the truck (although of course I’m sure both were supposed to happen at the same time). In the latter, you fly a plane into a building, then blow it.
6) In Kenneth Trentadue’s case, the FBI appears to have gotten away with murder.
My gut feeling–take it for what you will–is that in the early days of the bombing the FBI really did not know who was responsible, but that it quickly assembled the dots, and realized that the responsible parties were people they were supposed to be watching, that the number of people involved greatly exceeded Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, and that it would be a major scandal if their role in this were revealed. Specifically, they likely had informants at a place called Elohim City, which was a right wing extremist group in Oklahoma, and people from there likely carried out the bombing.
It should be emphasized that security back then would not have been anything remotely like what it became post-Oklahoma City, and reasonably intelligent civilians likely could have infiltrated the building to place explosives.
At a rock bottom minimum, the FBI knows more than it has publicly acknowledged, and to the extent their role is as a servant of the people–as a collector and disseminater of information–they have very blatantly not only failed in that role, but repudiated it outright. This very clearly constitutes a conspiracy conducted at a very high level to break the law.
As with 9/11, it is past time that a body be convened to assemble a rational narrative that does not violate the laws of physics.