{"id":868,"date":"2004-04-19T23:47:52","date_gmt":"2004-04-20T03:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/oklahoma_city_bombing_video_ta\/"},"modified":"2004-04-19T23:47:52","modified_gmt":"2004-04-20T03:47:52","slug":"oklahoma_city_bombing_video_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/oklahoma_city_bombing_video_ta\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma City Bombing Video Tape"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org\/\">ninth anniversary<\/a> of the Oklahoma City bombing.  And with it comes <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20040419\/D8221R8O0.html\">a report<\/a> of a 1995 Secret Service memo referring  to security video footage of the bombing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck,&#8221; the Secret Service reported six days after the attack on a log of agents&#8217; activities and evidence in the Oklahoma investigation.<br \/>\nThe 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.<br \/>\nSeveral 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.<br \/>\nThe 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to believe such explosive evidence could have been kept secret for nine years.  Then again it wouldn&#8217;t be the first time things have gotten &#8220;lost&#8221; inside the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/oklahoma_city_bombing_video_ta\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Oklahoma City Bombing Video Tape\"><p>Today is the ninth anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. And with it comes a report of a 1995 Secret Service memo referring to security video footage of the bombing: &#8220;Security video tapes from the area show the truck detonation 3 minutes and 6 seconds after the suspects exited the truck,&#8221; the Secret Service reported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}