OKLAHOMA CITY - Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.
"The real story is what's missing," said Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City attorney who obtained the recordings through the federal Freedom of Information Act as part of an unofficial inquiry he is conducting into the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured hundreds more.
Trentadue gave copies of the tapes to The Oklahoman newspaper, which posted them online and provided copies to The Associated Press.
The tapes turned over by the FBI came from security cameras various companies had mounted outside office buildings near the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. They are blank at points before 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb carrying a 4,000 pound fertilizer-and-fuel-oil bomb detonated in front of the building, Trentadue said.
"Four cameras in four different locations going blank at basically the same time on the morning of April 19, 1995. There ain't no such thing as a coincidence," Trentadue said.
He said government officials claim the security cameras did not record the minutes before the bombing because "they had run out of tape" or "the tape was being replaced."
"The interesting thing is they spring back on after 9:02," he said. "The absence of footage from these crucial time intervals is evidence that there is something there that the FBI doesn't want anybody to see."
A spokesman for the FBI in Oklahoma City, Gary Johnson, declined to comment and referred inquiries about the tapes to FBI officials in Washington, who were not immediately available for comment Sunday.
The soundless recordings show people rushing from nearby buildings after the bomb went off. Some show people fleeing through corridors cluttered with debris. None show the actual explosion that ripped through the federal building.
FBI agents did not report finding any security tapes from the federal building itself.
The FBI in the past refused to release the security camera recordings, leading Trentadue and others to contend the government was hiding evidence that others were involved in the attack.
"It's taken a lawsuit and years to get the tapes," Trentadue said.
He received the latest batch of tapes over the summer in response to an April request for video from security cameras in 11 different locations. Nothing on the tapes was unexpected.
"The more important thing they show is what they don't show," Trentadue said. "These cameras would have shown the various roads and approaches to the Murrah Building."
Trentadue began looking into the bombing after his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, died at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center in August 1995. Kenneth Trentadue was a convicted bank robber who was held at the federal prison after being picked up as a parole violator at his home in San Diego in June 1995.
He was never a bombing suspect, but Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mistook his brother for one and beat him to death during an interrogation. The official cause of Kenneth Trentadue's death is listed as suicide, but his body had 41 wounds and bruises that Jesse Trentadue believes could have come only from a beating.
A judge in 2001 awarded Kenneth Trentadue's family $1.1 million for extreme emotional distress in the government's handling of his death.
Jesse Trentadue said he has received about 30 security tapes, including some images that were used as evidence at bomber Timothy McVeigh's trial. McVeigh was convicted on federal murder and conspiracy charges and executed in 2001. Coconspirator Terry Nichols is serving life in prison on federal and state bombing convictions.
Trentadue said he is seeking more tapes along with a variety of bombing-related documents from the FBI and the CIA. An FOIA request by Trentadue for 26 CIA documents was rejected in June. A letter from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, which reviewed the documents, said their release "could cause grave damage to our national security."
Trentadue said he gave the latest set of tapes to The Oklahoman because of their historical value. The newspaper has agreed to provide copies to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.
TIM TALLEY
The Associated Press
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the american people are beyond dumb to believe a word of our fake usurped gov. by the rothschilds cfr who has printed money out of thin air has been buying up the world since 1913.They have literally stole the world.Every holding they have should and will go back to the american people, and world people where the bastards have robbed there.But we'll hand 'em over when we're through..what's left after the treason trial and the carrying out of the sentence. what did you fools think would happen?
sssssjjjj1 3 months ago
@austinmoore97 Can't understand why you and the American Sheeple are so gullible.
RPenta 4 months ago
Every-single-government-building-has-security-cameras-all-over-the-building.The-Pentagon-you-think-all-they-have-was-that-one-video-of-a
missile-hitting-the-building?It-was-a-missile-and-why-they-only-showed-you-that-video-clip.The-film-they-showed-was-a-misisle.What-you-saw-was-the-missile-the-instant-it-hit-the-building.So-where-was-the-rear-end-of-the-plane?A-757-slams-into-abuilding-and-all-we-see-is-a-large-fireball,but-no-plane?Go-ahead-believe-their-lies.
tubeyou9878 5 months ago
Every-single-government-building-has-security-cameras-all-over-the-building.The-Pentagon-you-think-all-they-have-was-that-one-video-of-a
missile-hitting-the-building?It-was-a-missile-and-why-they-only-showed-you-that-video-clip.The-film-they-showed-was-a-misisle.What-you-saw-was-the-missile-the-instant-it-hit-the-building.So-where-was-the-rear-end-of-the-plane?A-757-slams-into-abuilding-and-all-we-see-is-a-large-fireball,but-no-plane?
tubeyou9878 5 months ago
Who-was-the-Cop-that-was-going-around-town-saying-the-government-had-lied-and-they-executed-him-in-the-desert?How-many-others-have-vanished-in-
Oklahoma-City?How-many-have-left-for-fear?How-many-have-been-found-dead?
tubeyou9878 5 months ago
@austinmoore97 Yeah-but-Why-was-the-BATF-there-before-the-blast?That-truck-was-maybe-20'from-the-building.I've-made-a-lot-f-bombs.That-fertilizer-bomb-would-only-have-blown-out-the-windows.The-inly-damage-would-have-been-parts-of-the-truck-that-hit-the-building.If-he-pulled-the-truck-agaisnt-the-building-it-would-have-blown-out-the-bricks.But-NOT-taken-out-the-main-columns.The-main-columns-were-taken-out-by-bombs-inside.Your-father-Iwork-with-him.
tubeyou9878 5 months ago
I write "informative video on the Oklahoma bombing" and other alternatives in the search box on Youtube what I get is all conspiracy theories. why??. they are not the information I am looking for I am looking for how he, the man accused and found guilty of the bombing did it. Not how the US goverment supposidly should have pulled this off. same thing on the 9/11. when I want to look at conspiracy videos I clearly write "Conspiracy" in the search box. In this case I did not but ended up with it.
1Gabrielsson1 6 months ago
They won't let us see the surveillance cameras. Who cares? What does that prove? I don't understand why you idiots listen to Alex Jones. The guy wasn't even fucking there. My dad worked in the Devon Energy building across the street and witnessed the whole thing. Two men walked out, minutes later the truck exploded blowing up the building and shattering his window. There wasn't need for evidence. McVeigh ADMITTED he did it! Quit listening to Jones for GODS SAKE!
austinmoore97 7 months ago
Theres never a trial were evidence is shown. We never get to see the tapes, whether Oklahoma, 911 black boxes, the many different surveillance cameras showing what hit the Pentagon. All the evidence points to our Government knowing in advance this was going to happen. Then its interesting all the laws that get passed post crisis. For example after 911 the patriot act gets passed, these crisis's, wars, benefit a shadow Elite. They invent these crisis's, then offer the solution.
SwaggerLikeUz 7 months ago