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FBI Inspection Division to Review Investigation of Oklahoma City Bombing
2004-02-28
The FBI on Friday ordered a new whitewash formal review of some aspects of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing investigation, reopening the question of whether Timothy McVeigh may have had more accomplices in the worst domestic terrorist attack in U.S. history, The Associated Press has learned. Reacting to an AP story earlier this week, the FBI ordered agents to determine why some documents did not properly reach the bureau’s Oklahoma City task force during the original investigation or get turned over to McVeigh’s lawyers before he was executed in 2001, officials said.

The review of evidence and documents will also try to determine whether FBI agents in a separate investigation of white supremacist bank robbers may have failed to alert the Oklahoma City investigation of a possible link between the robbers and McVeigh. .... The evidence includes .... a driver’s license with the name of a central player who was robbed in the Oklahoma City plot. ...

The FBI agent who ran the investigation, Dan Defenbaugh, said his team never got the chance to investigate the evidence and he called for the probe to be reopened. ....

The review will be handled by the FBI’s inspection division, a unit of senior agents that routinely conducts reviews to ensure the bureau follows its own rules and conducts investigations properly.
Posted by:Mike Sylwester

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