PIML 96060310 / Forwarded to Patriot Information Mailing List: [Not all feds are bad guys.] PIML ================================================================== Date: Sat, 1 Jun 1996 22:07:44 -0700 (MST) To: fsnw-l@freespeechnews.com From: Free Speech Subject: [FreeSpeech-NewsWire] Agent Criticizes FBI Probe of Okla. City Blast Saturday June 1 12:50 AM EDT Agent Criticizes FBI Probe of Okla. City Blast DENVER (Reuter) - An FBI agent charged Friday that the federal government's investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing case ``has been seriously compromised'' by what he called FBI misconduct. The allegation was made by veteran FBI crime lab chemist Frederic Whitehurst, who testified against the FBI in the World Trade Center bombing case and submitted a deposition in the O.J. Simpson murder trial that was critical of the agency. Whitehurst made his written allegations to U.S. District Court Judge Richard Matsch, who moved the case to Denver after ruling defendants Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols could not get a fair trial in Oklahoma. The two are accused of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that claimed 168 lives. No date has been set for a trial, but it is expected to get under way late this year or early in 1997. A spokeswoman for prosecutors said they would not comment, because the Justice Department had not completed an investigation of various allegations Whitehurst had made. Whitehurst said the alleged improper conduct in the bombing case involved ``scientific fraud, misconduct and gross negligence in the administration of the FBI crime lab in general, and with respect to this case in particular.'' Whitehurst said he had been ``unfairly and publicly maligned'' by prosecutor Beth Wilkinson, who he said ``smeared'' him at an April 9 pre-trial hearing after McVeigh's attorneys disclosed they might use Whitehurst as a defense witness. Whitehurst also asked the judge to unseal documents about him and his allegations that prosecutors filed. The documents corroborate many of his allegations, he said. The documents are ``central to protecting the American people from future tragedies like the Oklahoma City bombing or the World Trade Center bombing disaster,'' Whitehurst said. ================================================================== * Patriot Information Mailing List * http://constitution.org/piml/piml.htm * A service to help inform those who have an active interest in * returning our federal and state governments to limited, * constitutional government * Send messages for consideration and possible posting to * butterb@sagenet.net (Bill Utterback). * To subscribe or unsubscribe, send message with subject line * "subscribe patriot" or "unsubscribe patriot" * Forwarded messages sent on this mailing list are NOT verified. * See World's Smallest Political Quiz: www.self-gov.org/quiz.html * Libertarian is to LIBERTY as librarian is to library (DePena) * PIML grants permission to copy and repost this message * in its entirety with headers and trailers left intact.