OKC: Did McVeigh and Nichols have help?

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Note: at the outset of the subcommittee’s investigation, former Oklahoma governor Frank Keating personally requested that the investigation be called off. During his meeting with the subcommittee chairman, Governor Keating mentioned that then-President Bill Clinton had called him only hours after the bombing. According to Keating, President Clinton’s first comment to him after the bombing was “God, I hope there’s no Middle Eastern connection to this.”(Emphasis ours.)

This mindset, described by Governor Keating, may or may not have influenced the original Oklahoma City bombing investigators. There were many reasons to believe that there might have been a foreign connection. There should have been no hesitation to investigate and make that determination, even if it would have required a forceful retaliation.

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We're not conspiracy types, but it's always stuck in our craws how quickly the FBI was willing to ditch the possibilty of a "John Doe #2", to say nothing of McVeigh's astonishingly quick execution.

Given the above quote from the boy ex-president, we are more than ever troubled that an "incovenient truth" might have been dismissed for the sake of political expediency.

Had a Middle Eastern connection been established, Clinton would have been compelled to react, perhaps even putting troops on the ground, some of whom would certainly have died, thus cutting into his precious popularity ratings and undercutting his pursuit of a legacy.

Better to blame talk radio.

Such are the perils of electing an insecure teenager to the office of the presidency.