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FTR #608 Update on the Oklahoma City Bombing: In Search of John Doe No. 2

Record­ed Sep­tem­ber 2, 2007
MP3: 30-Minute Seg­ment
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #608 and FTR #609 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.

Among the many 20th cen­tu­ry crimes that have nev­er been ful­ly explored or adju­di­cat­ed is the Okla­homa City bomb­ing. The avail­able evi­dence sug­gests that Tim­o­thy McVeigh and Ter­ry Nichols were part of a larg­er plot that was cov­ered up by the fed­er­al author­i­ties. Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance are the evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries link­ing the Okla­homa City bomb­ing with the first World Trade Cen­ter attack, the 9/11 attacks and the AMIA bomb­ing in Argentina—tributaries that have been ignored by the fed­er­al author­i­ties. (For more about this, see—among oth­er programs—FTR#456.) This broad­cast explores the mys­te­ri­ous [and sin­is­ter] death of Ken­ney Trentadue, believed by inves­ti­ga­tors to have been mur­dered in prison. Ruled a sui­cide, Trentadue’s death may well have result­ed from his resem­blance to the mys­te­ri­ous John Doe #2, seen in the com­pa­ny of con­vict­ed Okla­homa City bomber Tim­o­thy McVeigh. Although Trentadue’s injuries sug­gest he was mur­dered, prison author­i­ties and oth­er foren­sic inves­ti­ga­tors have gone to great lengths to dis­sem­ble about the cause of death, a pre­tense made more effec­tive by the prison “sui­cides” of sev­er­al peo­ple con­nect­ed to the case.

Pro­gram High­lights Include: The prison “sui­cide” of Alden Gillis Bak­er (who tes­ti­fied that Trentadue was mur­dered); the prison sui­cide of Peter Lan­gan of the Aryan Repub­li­can Army (whose asso­ci­a­tion with Tim­o­thy McVeigh is one of the inves­tiga­tive path­ways lead­ing to the death of Ken­ney Trentadue); a gris­ly account­ing of the nature of Ken­ney Trentadue’s injuries.

1. Among the most strik­ing aspects of Ken­ney Trentadue’s case are the foren­sic evi­dence and the behav­ior of the author­i­ties with regard to that evi­dence. Note how Ken­ney Trentadue died—keeping in mind that this was sup­pos­ed­ly sui­cide! “ . . . Ken­ney called again that night, sound­ing chip­per, and the broth­ers strate­gized about the parole hear­ing; Ken­ney promised to call again the next day. But no call came until ear­ly the morn­ing of August 21, when the phone rang at Ken­ney and Jesse’s moth­er’s house. It was the prison war­den. Ken­ney, she said, had com­mit­ted sui­cide that night. She offered to have the body cre­mat­ed at gov­ern­ment expense—a move with­out prece­dent in fed­er­al prison policies—but Wilma Trentadue turned her down. Five days lat­er, Ken­ney’s body arrived at a mor­tu­ary in Cal­i­for­nia. There were bruis­es all over it, clum­si­ly dis­guised with heavy make­up; slash­es on his throat; lig­a­ture marks; and rup­tures on his scalp. Pho­tos of the injuries were includ­ed in a let­ter that Jesse drew up on August 30 and hand-deliv­ered to the Bureau of Pris­ons (bop), which is part of the U.S. Depart­ment of Jus­tice (doj). . . .”
(“In Search of John Doe No. 2: The Sto­ry the Feds Nev­er Told About the Okla­homa City Bomb­ing” by James Ridge­way; Moth­er Jones; 7/3/2007.)

2. More about this sup­posed “sui­cide”: “ . . . ‘I have enclosed as Exhib­it ‘A’ a pho­to­graph of Ken­neth’s body at the funer­al,’ it read. ‘This is how you returned my broth­er to us.... My broth­er had been so bad­ly beat­en that I per­son­al­ly saw sev­er­al mourn­ers leave the view­ing to vom­it in the park­ing lot! Any­one see­ing my broth­er’s bat­tered body with his bruised and lac­er­at­ed fore­head, throat cut, and blue-black knuck­les would not have con­clud­ed that his death was either easy or a ‘sui­cide’! ‘ After describ­ing Ken­ney’s injuries in detail, and spec­u­lat­ing how they might have come about (bruis­es to his arms from being gripped, oth­ers to his legs from being knocked to the ground with batons, slash­es to his throat from some­one ‘pos­si­bly left-hand­ed,’ which Ken­ney was not), Jesse con­clud­ed: ‘Had my broth­er been less of a man, you[r] guards would have been able to kill him with­out inflict­ing so much injury to his body. Had that occurred, Ken­ney’s fam­i­ly would for­ev­er have been guilt-rid­den... with the pain of think­ing that Ken­neth took his own life and that we had some­how failed him. By mak­ing the fight he did for his life, Ken has saved us that pain and God bless him for hav­ing done so!’ . . .” (Idem.)

3. A num­ber of Ken­ney Trentadue’s fel­low inmates pro­vid­ed tes­ti­mo­ny indi­cat­ing that he was mur­dered. One of them—Alden Gillis Baker—was sub­se­quent­ly found hanged in his cell. “ . . . Oth­er key evi­dence was sim­ply omit­ted from or buried in the offi­cial reports: FBI and state Bureau of Inves­ti­ga­tions offi­cials lat­er tes­ti­fied, in a law­suit brought by the Trentadue fam­i­ly, that a sec­ond per­son­’s blood had been found in Ken­ney’s cell, and that there were no cut marks on the noose from which he was, accord­ing to prison offi­cials, ‘cut down.’ Accord­ing to an inter­nal FBI memo, a prison guard told his neigh­bor that Ken­ney had been killed, and then hung in his cell as a cov­er-up; an inmate who report­ed hear­ing sim­i­lar state­ments from a sec­ond guard said he was warned to keep silent and then sent to iso­la­tion. Anoth­er inmate, Alden Gillis Bak­er, would lat­er give Jesse’s lawyer a note describ­ing an inci­dent dur­ing which, he said, Ken­ney got into an alter­ca­tion with a guard. Even­tu­al­ly, he wrote, addi­tion­al offi­cers entered the cell, there was ‘a lot of phys­i­cal vio­lence going on,’ he heard ‘faint moan­ing,’ and lat­er the sound of bed­sheets being torn. (He would repeat this account in a depo­si­tion in con­nec­tion with a law­suit brought by Jesse, but a judge ruled that Bak­er, a con­vict­ed rob­ber and sex offend­er, was not a reli­able wit­ness. In 2000, Bak­er was found hang­ing in his cell in a Cal­i­for­nia fed­er­al prison.) . . .” (Idem.)

4. One of the hypothe­ses enter­tained by the Trentadue fam­i­ly and asso­ci­at­ed inves­ti­ga­tors involves pos­si­ble con­fu­sion between Ken­ney Trentadue and mem­bers of the Aryan Repub­li­can Army, a white-suprema­cist group that moved in the same cir­cles as Tim­o­thy McVeigh and com­pa­ny. [Note the death via “prison sui­cide” of Peter Lan­gan, a key mem­ber of the ARA. Seems to be a lot of this sort of thing going on in con­nec­tion with this case.] Reports indi­cate that mem­bers of the ARA may be the mys­te­ri­ous John Doe #2, seen by wit­ness­es with Tim­o­thy McVeigh. Oth­er ana­lysts feel that John Doe #2 was Andreas Strass­meier, the son of Hel­mut Kohl’s chief of staff Gun­ther Strass­meier (the archi­tect of Ger­man reuni­fi­ca­tion). (Read more about Andreas Strass­meier, and the Okla­homa City bomb­ing.) “ . . . Guthrie’s name meant noth­ing to Jesse Trentadue, but in the far-right rad­i­cal scene, he had some noto­ri­ety. In 1994 and 1995, Guthrie and his gang, the Aryan Repub­li­can Army, car­ried out an impres­sive series of 22 bank rob­beries across the Mid­west, net­ting some $250,000 that they used to sup­port the white-suprema­cist move­ment. The ARA had a flair for the dra­mat­ic. They rent­ed get­away cars in the names of major FBI offi­cials. At some rob­beries they wore Clin­ton and Nixon masks; at oth­ers, they tried to look like Arabs. At a Decem­ber 1994 rob­bery they wore San­ta and elf suits; the fol­low­ing April, they left behind an East­er bas­ket hold­ing a bronzed pipe bomb. In a home movie, Guthrie’s part­ner Peter Lan­gan donned a black bal­a­cla­va and talked about the com­ing white rev­o­lu­tion. The ARA’s phi­los­o­phy was old-fash­ioned nativism, but their style was a take­off on the IRA, with Latin Amer­i­can rev­o­lu­tion and rock and roll thrown in. (Mem­bers of the Philadel­phia skin­head music scene were part of the group.) Lan­gan liked to call him­self ‘Com­man­der Pedro’; out­side the gang, he cross-dressed and lat­er, when sen­tenced to prison for the rob­beries, request­ed that a judge autho­rize a sex-change oper­a­tion. Cash told Jesse that some people—including some in fed­er­al law enforcement—thought the ARA might have been involved in the Okla­homa City bomb­ing, and that Guthrie could have been John Doe No. 2. (Guthrie, along with oth­er key ARA mem­bers, was final­ly arrest­ed in Jan­u­ary 1996 and was report­ed to be coop­er­at­ing with fed­er­al pros­e­cu­tors track­ing the far right. That July, short­ly before he was due to tes­ti­fy in court against Lan­gan, Guthrie was found hang­ing in his cell.) . . .” (Idem.)

5. Two video pro­duc­tions are being gen­er­at­ed by a cou­ple of doc­u­men­tary film­mak­ers. One is a DVD of a three-lec­ture series called “The First Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Rela­tion­ship Between Fas­cism and Reli­gion.” In addi­tion, there will soon be a doc­u­men­tary about Mr. Emory, titled “The Anti-Fas­cist.” For more about this project, vis­it TheAntiFascist.com.

Discussion

3 comments for “FTR #608 Update on the Oklahoma City Bombing: In Search of John Doe No. 2”

  1. FBI to judge: Sor­ry judge, we searched and we just can’t find the files!
    Judge to FBI: Ummm...you have to be kid­ding.

    Note that the FBI’s excuse is actu­al­ly kind of plau­si­ble, although not for the great­est rea­sons...

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | March 22, 2012, 10:48 pm
  2. Police have report­ed­ly found a box filled with ammo­ni­um nitrate in the hotel room of the recent­ly arrest­ed leader of one of the mili­tia groups oper­at­ing on the US/Mexican bor­der, rais­ing the ques­tion of what this mili­tia may have had in mind. Fer­til­iz­er for a nice hedge fence along the bor­der, per­haps? Hmm­mm...:

    My Sanan­to­nio
    Records: Bor­der mili­tia mem­ber had ammo­ni­um nitrate, thou­sands of rounds of ammu­ni­tion in hotel room
    By Joshua Fechter : Octo­ber 29, 2014 : Updat­ed: Octo­ber 29, 2014 3:22pm

    Fed­er­al agents found a box filled with what appeared to be ammo­ni­um nitrate — which can cause major explo­sions — along with firearms and thou­sands of rounds of ammu­ni­tion dur­ing a search of the hotel room of mili­tia mem­ber Kevin Lyn­del Massey.

    Agents with the fed­er­al Bureau of Alco­hol, Tobac­co, Firearms and Explo­sives, who searched Massey’s hotel room in Brownsville after an Oct. 20 arrest, found an AK-47 with six loaded mag­a­zines, a loaded hand­gun, a bal­lis­tic hel­met and sev­er­al cam­eras, as well as the ammu­ni­tion box filled with sus­pect­ed ammo­ni­um nitrate and fuel, accord­ing to court doc­u­ments obtained by the San Anto­nio Express-News.

    Ammo­ni­um nitrate can be a pow­er­ful explo­sive under cer­tain cir­cum­stances: a stock­pile of the sub­stance at a fer­til­iz­er plant in West caused the dead­ly April 17 explo­sion that killed 15 peo­ple and injured more than 160 oth­ers. It’s also the sub­stance used by Tim­o­thy McVeigh in the 1995 Okla­homa City bomb­ing that killed 168 peo­ple.

    Massey was arrest­ed in con­nec­tion to an Aug. 29 inci­dent dur­ing which a Bor­der Patrol agent fired four shots at a man point­ing a weapon at the agent near the Rio Grande while pur­su­ing a group of immi­grants east of Brownsville, accord­ing to doc­u­ments from the U.S. Dis­trict Court for the South­ern Dis­trict of Texas in Brownsville.

    Dur­ing the inci­dent, agents seized a pis­tol from the man, iden­ti­fied as mili­tia mem­ber John Fred­er­ick Foer­ster, and two firearms – a pis­tol and rifle – car­ried by Massey, who was in the vicin­i­ty with anoth­er mili­tia mem­ber.

    Foer­ster was arrest­ed Oct. 21.

    The court has ordered a psy­chi­atric eval­u­a­tion on Foer­ster.

    U.S. Mag­is­trate Judge Ronald Mor­gan set Massey’s bond at $30,000 under sev­er­al con­di­tions, includ­ing that Massey and his wife remove all firearms and ammu­ni­tion from their North Texas home.

    ...

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | October 30, 2014, 7:43 pm
  3. As we learned back in August, the future is look­ing bright in Texas if you hap­pen to be a far right mili­tia mem­ber:

    Think Progress
    Armed Right-Wing Mili­tias Amass­ing Along Texas Bor­der With State Lawmaker’s Bless­ing

    by Ian Mill­his­er Post­ed on August 8, 2014 at 2:09 pm Updat­ed: August 8, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    For much of the sum­mer, right-wing mili­ti­a­men have gath­ered near the Texas-Mex­i­co bor­der, many of them claim­ing that they are there as part of some­thing called “Oper­a­tion Secure Our Bor­der.” They include mem­bers of a move­ment that Pres­i­dent George W. Bush denounced as “vig­i­lantes,” and they also include mem­bers of even more rad­i­cal groups that pro­mote wild con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries and that explic­it­ly threat­en vio­lence against the gov­ern­ment.

    ...

    Miller is not the high­est-rank­ing Texas offi­cial who has dis­missed crit­i­cism of armed vig­i­lantes patrolling the Texas bor­der. Late last month, the 12 Demo­c­ra­t­ic mem­bers of Texas’ con­gres­sion­al del­e­ga­tion penned a let­ter to Greg Abbott, the state’s attor­ney gen­er­al and the Repub­li­can can­di­date to be Texas’ next gov­er­nor. In it, the 12 law­mak­ers quote a mili­tia leader who said that You see an ille­gal. You point your gun dead at him, right between the eyes, and you say, ‘Get back across the bor­der or you will be shot.’ They also ask Abbott to “denounce the actions of these mili­tia groups and clar­i­fy the juris­dic­tion these mili­tia groups have to patrol along­side local law enforce­ment and Bor­der Patrol agents.”

    A spokesper­son for Abbott dis­missed the let­ter as a “par­ti­san polit­i­cal stunt.”

    The mili­tias Abbott would not denounce include a volatile mix of para­noid anti-gov­ern­ment groups and poten­tial­ly vio­lent gun activists. Accord­ing to the Dal­las Morn­ing News, the ear­li­est wave of mili­ti­a­men com­ing to Texas includ­ed mem­bers of the Oath­keep­ers, a group which describes itself as an “asso­ci­a­tion of cur­rent­ly serv­ing mil­i­tary, reserves, Nation­al Guard, peace offi­cers, fire-fight­ers, and vet­er­ans who swore an oath to sup­port and defend the Con­sti­tu­tion against all ene­mies, for­eign and domes­tic … and meant it.” Their web­site warns of gov­ern­ment offi­cials “disarm[ing] the Amer­i­can peo­ple,” “confiscat[ing] the prop­er­ty of the Amer­i­can peo­ple, includ­ing food and oth­er essen­tial sup­plies,” and “blockad[ing] Amer­i­can cities, thus turn­ing them into giant con­cen­tra­tion camps.”

    The mili­ti­a­men also report­ed­ly include mem­bers of the “Three Percenter’s Club,” a group which claims that its “mis­sion is give our mem­bers the capa­bil­i­ties and resources nec­es­sary to exe­cute Mil­i­tary Strate­gies to defend against for­eign and domes­tic ene­mies.” The Three Per­center move­ment takes its name from the “3% of the colonist [sic]” who alleged­ly “refused orders by the British Crown to sur­ren­der their firearms in the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion,” and it was found­ed by a con­ser­v­a­tive activist named Mike Van­der­boegh. On his per­son­al blog, Van­der­boegh explained that one of the Three Per­center movement’s core beliefs is a will­ing­ness to offer vio­lent resis­tance to the gov­ern­ment:

    We intend to main­tain our God-giv­en nat­ur­al rights to lib­er­ty and prop­er­ty, and that means most espe­cial­ly the right to keep and bear arms. Thus, we are com­mit­ted to the restora­tion of the Founders’ Repub­lic, and are will­ing to fight, die and, if forced by any would-be oppres­sor, to kill in the defense of our­selves and the Con­sti­tu­tion that we all took an oath to uphold against ene­mies for­eign and domes­tic.

    We are the peo­ple that the col­lec­tivists who now con­trol the gov­ern­ment should leave alone if they wish to con­tin­ue unfet­tered oxy­gen con­sump­tion. We are the Three Per­cent. Attempt to fur­ther oppress us at your per­il.

    To put it blunt­ly, leave us the hell alone.

    Or, if you feel frog­gy, go ahead AND WATCH WHAT HAPPENS.

    Last April, a sim­i­lar col­lec­tion of mili­tia orga­ni­za­tions, includ­ing mem­bers of the Oath Keep­ers, gath­ered near the home of Neva­da ranch­er Cliv­en Bundy to offer armed resis­tance to fed­er­al offi­cials seek­ing to enforce a court order pre­vent­ing Bundy from ille­gal­ly graz­ing his cat­tle on fed­er­al land. Bundy briefly became a hero among con­ser­v­a­tive media fig­ures such as Fox News’ Sean Han­ni­ty, and Sen. Dean Heller (R‑NV) labeled Bundy and his sup­port­ers “patri­ots.” Bundy’s moment as a Repub­li­can folk hero end­ed fair­ly abrupt­ly, how­ev­er, after he made racist remarks about “the Negro.”

    What sets Bundy’s armed sup­port­ers apart from the mili­tia mem­bers gath­er­ing in Texas, how­ev­er, is that Bundy’s mili­tia squared off against trained fed­er­al law enforce­ment offi­cials. The mili­ti­a­men in Texas, by con­trast, have threat­ened to point their guns at des­per­ate and often help­less peo­ple cross­ing the bor­der.

    As you might expect, the mili­tias might be rather fond of soon-to-be gov­er­nor Greg Abbott giv­en his refusal to denounce their antics while he’s still Attor­ney Gen­er­al. Of course, if some of those mili­tia mem­bers where caught with pow­er­ful explo­sives like ammo­ni­um nitrate it’s rea­son­able to assume Abbot would be will to denounce them at that point. Rea­son­able and naive:

    San Anto­nio Express
    Mili­tia leader posed with Greg Abbott four days before feds found ammo­ni­um nitrate, weapons at hotel
    By Joshua Fechter : Octo­ber 31, 2014 : Updat­ed: Octo­ber 31, 2014 12:43pm

    Four days before fed­er­al author­i­ties arrest­ed him on fed­er­al weapons charges and found ammo­ni­um nitrate in his South Texas hotel room, bor­der mili­tia leader Kevin Lyn­del “K.C.” Massey chat­ted and posed for a pho­to with Repub­li­can guber­na­to­r­i­al can­di­date Greg Abbott at a cam­paign event in Brownsville.

    The pho­to, tak­en at Brownsville restau­rant Cob­ble­heads on Oct. 16, shows Massey wear­ing an “Abbott for Gov­er­nor” stick­er on his mil­i­tary fatigues and shak­ing hands with the smil­ing can­di­date.

    Video footage cap­tured by Fox 2 News in Brownsville also shows Massey tak­ing pho­tos of Abbott while wear­ing a GoPro cam­era on his head, which was lat­er con­fis­cat­ed dur­ing the raid.

    Massey post­ed anoth­er pho­to of him­self and Abbott at the event on his Face­book pro­file — since delet­ed, but snagged by ValleyCentral.com — with the cap­tion, “Try­ing to talk to Greg Abbott about the bor­der prob­lems. I gave him my num­ber we will see if he calls.”

    Abbott deputy com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor Amelia Chas­se said Abbott and his cam­paign did not know who Massey was when the can­di­date posed with the mili­tia mem­ber. She declined to com­ment whether Massey posed a secu­ri­ty threat to Abbott.

    “This indi­vid­ual was part of a pho­to line at a pub­lic event and Greg Abbott took a pho­to with every­one who was in the line at that event,” Chas­se said, adding the two exchanged only “pleas­antries” dur­ing their brief encounter.

    Agents with the fed­er­al Bureau of Alco­hol, Tobac­co, Firearms and Explo­sives, who searched Massey’s hotel room in Brownsville after an Oct. 20 arrest, found an AK-47 with six loaded mag­a­zines, a loaded hand­gun, a bal­lis­tic hel­met and sev­er­al cam­eras, as well as an ammu­ni­tion box filled with sus­pect­ed ammo­ni­um nitrate — which can cause major explo­sions — and fuel, accord­ing to court doc­u­ments obtained by the San Anto­nio Express-News.

    Chas­se declined to say whether Abbott sup­ports the group.

    “Greg Abbott places his trust in the Depart­ment of Pub­lic Safe­ty, bor­der sher­iffs, the Nation­al Guard and local law enforce­ment to do the job nec­es­sary to keep Tex­ans safe,” Chas­se said.

    The cam­paign did not respond to a fol­low-up ques­tion regard­ing whether Abbott, an avid gun rights advo­cate, is con­cerned that some mili­tia mem­bers are alleged­ly patrolling the bor­der with weapons that, under fed­er­al law, they are pro­hib­it­ed from car­ry­ing.

    Abbot­t’s oppo­nent Demo­c­ra­t­ic guber­na­to­r­i­al can­di­date Wendy Davis blast­ed Abbott in a state­ment for not con­demn­ing mili­tia groups’ activ­i­ty at the U.S.-Mexico bor­der.

    “It’s hard to say what’s more dis­turb­ing: the fact that Greg Abbott met with a rad­i­cal mili­tia leader days before fed­er­al author­i­ties found the same kind of explo­sives from the Okla­homa City bomb­ing in his hotel room or the fact that Greg Abbott is refus­ing to denounce his dan­ger­ous fringe group,” Davis said. “Mr. Abbot­t’s refusal to dis­close what they dis­cussed or con­demn this group shows a fright­en­ing lack of judg­ment from some­one who wants to be our gov­er­nor.”

    In July, The Texas Demo­c­ra­t­ic Con­gres­sion­al Del­e­ga­tion, includ­ing U.S. Rep. Joaquin Cas­tro of San Anto­nio, called on Abbott to denounce mili­tia groups at the bor­der. At the time, Abbott spokes­woman Lau­ren Bean called the move a “par­ti­san polit­i­cal stunt.”

    In a state­ment Fri­day, Cas­tro said the inci­dent “serves as a reminder that patrolling the bor­der should be left to the author­i­ties.”

    “This is what hap­pens when you don’t stand up for the rule of law, and allow felons to ‘patrol’ the bor­der,” Cas­tro said. “Greg Abbott should take this oppor­tu­ni­ty to denounce these groups.”

    While the optics of the pho­to may be unwel­come for the Abbott cam­paign, it’s not like­ly to stir any major shake­ups four days from the Nov. 4 elec­tion, said Mark Jones, a polit­i­cal sci­en­tist at Rice Uni­ver­si­ty.

    Jones point­ed out that can­di­dates take thou­sands of pho­tos with poten­tial sup­port­ers while on cam­paign­ing and are unable to vet each one.

    “Cer­tain­ly for Abbott, it’s not some­thing you would like to see, but at the same time, polit­i­cal can­di­dates shake hands with peo­ple at polit­i­cal ral­lies and meet­ings on a dai­ly basis,” Jones said.

    ...

    Ammo­ni­um nitrate has mas­sive explo­sive pow­er under cer­tain cir­cum­stances: a stock­pile of the sub­stance at a fer­til­iz­er plant in West caused the April 17 explo­sion that killed 15 peo­ple and injured more than 160 oth­ers and the sub­stance was also used by Tim­o­thy McVeigh in the 1995 Okla­homa City bomb­ing that killed 168 peo­ple.

    To reit­er­ate:

    Abbott deputy com­mu­ni­ca­tions direc­tor Amelia Chas­se said Abbott and his cam­paign did not know who Massey was when the can­di­date posed with the mili­tia mem­ber. She declined to com­ment whether Massey posed a secu­ri­ty threat to Abbott.

    “This indi­vid­ual was part of a pho­to line at a pub­lic event and Greg Abbott took a pho­to with every­one who was in the line at that event,” Chas­se said, adding the two exchanged only “pleas­antries” dur­ing their brief encounter.

    ...

    Chas­se declined to say whether Abbott sup­ports the group.

    Yes, the future is look­ing bright for Texas.

    Posted by Pterrafractyl | October 31, 2014, 6:26 pm

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