Was Mylroie Right?

New allegations have surfaced - in the major media, no less - of video evidence that Timothy McVeigh did not act alone:

A Secret Service document written shortly after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing described security video footage of the attack and witness testimony that suggested Timothy McVeigh (news - web sites) may have had accomplices at the scene.

"Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck," the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents' activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation.

The government has insisted McVeigh drove the truck himself and that it never had any video of the bombing or the scene of the Alfred P. Murrah building in the minutes before the April 19, 1995, explosion.

Several investigators and prosecutors who worked the case told The Associated Press they had never seen video footage like that described in the Secret Service log.

The document, if accurate, is either significant evidence kept secret for nine years or a misconstrued recounting of investigative leads that were often passed by word of mouth during the hectic early days of the case, they said.

If true, it's about time.'ve always felt it completely asinine to presume that someone like McVeigh - even with someone like Terry Nichols - could have done the job himself.

No part of this story - at least, as it played out officially - ever passed the stink test for me.

Posted by Mitch at April 21, 2004 05:00 AM