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Government Withheld McVeigh Evidence

The AP is reporting it has reviewed thousands of documents that link Timothy McVeigh to the white supremacists at the Elohim City Compound, and that some of the documents were not disclosed to the defense before his trial.

The Government's position, of course, is that the documents don't change anything--they still believe McVeigh and Nichols acted alone.

Stephen Jones, McVeigh's chief counsel, had this to say yesterday:
"They short-circuited the search for the truth," attorney Stephen Jones said. "I don't doubt Tim's role in the conspiracy. But I think he clearly aggrandized his role, enlarged it, to cover for others who were involved."
We're not sure. Here's what we had to say about it a few weeks ago.

We've always disagreed with the Government's insistence there was no John Doe 2--and we remain skeptical of its explanation for the extra leg found in the bombing--but we're still a ways from concluding that white supremacists or middle eastern terrorists were involved in the OKC bombing.

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