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FBI admits 'serious bungle' over Timothy McVeigh trial

  • 17-05-2001 10:00am
    #1
    Yo Mamma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭



    The FBI's director has admitted the agency made a "serious error" in the Timothy McVeigh case.

    Louis Freeh says the law enforcement body blundered by not providing Timothy McVeigh's lawyers with some of the evidence in the Oklahoma City bombing case.

    The statement is the first from an FBI official since the disclosure that more than 3,000 pages of documents were withheld from McVeigh's lawyers at the time of his trial.

    Mr Freeh appeared before a House Appropriations sub-committee six days after the revelation and a day after testifying behind closed doors on the problem before the Senate intelligence committee.

    "Regardless of how extraneous these documents are, if they were covered by the discovery agreement, they should have been located and released during discovery," Mr Freeh said. "As director, I have taken responsibility. The buck does stop with me."

    The FBI has come in for withering criticism in recent days and Attorney General John Ashcroft last week postponed until June 11 McVeigh's execution by lethal injection.



Comments

  • #2
    Magwitch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 589 ✭✭✭Magwitch


    No more hold ups no matter what. McVeight will be burnt sausage meet soon and about time. Nazi craphat.
    Keep your powder dry and your pants moist


  • #3
    T.G Catter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 397 ✭✭T.G Catter


    Really interesting programme on channel four the other nite bout the Oklahoma bombing 'secet leaders of the world'.
    Seems there's more to Tim than we were led to believe.


  • #4
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,647 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Magwitch:
    No more hold ups no matter what. McVeight will be burnt sausage meet soon and about time. Nazi craphat.

    </font>

    ... or does he become a martyr. Let him rot in prison for the next 5,000 years.


    Changing call sign to SIERRA PAPA OSCAR OSCAR FOXTROT.


  • #5
    Yossarian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 353 ✭✭Yossarian


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by T.G Catter:
    Really interesting programme on channel four the other nite bout the Oklahoma bombing 'secet leaders of the world'.
    Seems there's more to Tim than we were led to believe.    </font>

    Such as?



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