Federal judge in Utah to consider dispute over release of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing videos

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Source: Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — A judge is being asked to decide whether the FBI has complied with federal freedom-of-information laws as part of a Utah attorney’s inquiry into the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.

Jesse Trentadue sued the FBI and the CIA for release of videotapes and records from the fatal bombing at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building under the Freedom of Information Act in 2008, two years after he first sought the information.

In papers filed in U.S. District Court, Trentadue contends the FBI’s efforts to locate the information he wants have been inadequate, and he argues that the bureau has failed to meet the requirements of the law that directs the release of government records.

A hearing is set for Wednesday in Salt Lake City before U.S. District Judge Clark Waddoups.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/federal_judge_in_utah_to_consider_dispute_over_release_of_1995_oklahoma_city_bombing_videos/2011/05/11/AFRXS2mG_story.html

[RC]

1. Isn't that some of the stuff that was hauled to Arizona and buried with the building debris?

[AtheistCrusader]

2. *facepalm*

[AtheistCrusader]

3. I hope they do.

I have a crazy truther/birther/etc relative and I need to rub his nose in it. (single truck bomb, no secondary bombs inside the building)

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. The Attorney seeking it brother died in Fed Jail during OK investigation

Strange story....


Kenneth was apprehended on June 10, 1995, while crossing the border from Mexico into California, when police officers ran his driver's license and discovered that he was wanted for violating his parole.<1> On August 18, Trentadue was transferred to the Department of Justice's Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. According to prison records, three days later, at 3:02 a.m., the morning of August 21, 1995, Kenneth was found in his cell suspended from a noose made out of his bed sheets, dead.<2>



When the family received the body from the prison authorities, it was covered in wounds, cuts, and bruises, leading the family to believe Trentadue had been tortured and beaten before his death. Trentadue had sustained three heavy blows to the head, and his throat had been cut; prison authorities claimed the wounds were self-inflicted.<2>



Kenneth's brother Jesse began gathering information on his brother's death, still with no knowledge of a possible connection to the Oklahoma City bombing case. After being contacted by David Hammer, a convicted murderer who had struck up a friendship with Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh on death row, and had read about the Trentadue case in the newspapers, Jesse and others ultimately came to believe that Kenneth had been mistakenly identified by authorities as an accomplice in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. It is supposed that Trentadue was interrogated to make him talk, and died during the interrogation.<3> After being shown a picture of Kenneth Trentadue, Timothy McVeigh is reported to have said, "Now I know why Trentadue was killed, because they thought he was Richard Guthrie."<2>





http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Michael_Trentadue


http://www.radiodujour.com/people/trentadue_jesse/