Jesse Trentadue, Esq. appearance
with Fox News Anchor/Senior Correspondent Eric Shawn, Sunday November 9, 2008.
Eric Shawn: To the Oklahoma City
bombing now, and new details that could come out. If you recall it was the worst
terrorist attack on our soil, a truck bombing killing 168 people and destroying
the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in 1995. Timothy McVeigh was executed for
it, his accomplice, Terry Nichols is serving life in prison and he says he wants
to speak out. A federal judge has allowed a
JT: Thank you Mr. Shawn for having
me.
ES: What do you think Terry Nichols
will say?
JT: He’s told me that he wants
to tell the whole story about the bombing. He wants to tell about the
others involved, including possible F.B.I.
informants.
ES: We have a statement, let me give
you this statement, this is from your paperwork of Terry Nichols, as you say he
wants to speak out. Here’s the statement, he says (Terry Nichols) “I want
to acknowledge my poor judgment and culpability in having assisted Timothy
McVeigh. I am also now prepared to identify others who played a role in the
bombing. My purpose in doing so is to bring closure not only to myself but
especially to the survivors and families of the victims of the
bombing.”
Now you say F.B.I. informants, what
does he, what do you mean by that?
JT: It appears, and this has been a
long fight, it appears that the F.B.I. had at least four informants who were
involved in this operation, or this plot. And one of the things that Mr. Nichols
wants to do, in addition to bringing closure, is to bring out the truth.
ES: Now the F.B.I., though, for
years, has said certainly they were not involved. I called the F.B.I. on
Friday, they did not have a statement on this, and their paperwork and their
appeals, some people say this is just a fishing expedition and that Nichols
wouldn’t have any credibility, that he wouldn’t know this first hand if there
were criminal informants that perhaps could have or may have, allegedly,
informed authorities before hand. What do you say about
that?
JT: Well, I say two things. He
recognizes that and he’s prepared and has compiled the proof to establish what
he is going to say. And I’ll give you two examples.
The explosives that were found a
couple of years ago in his
This was taken before a Judge,
fought and resisted vigorously by the F.B.I., and the Judge ordered that
deposition. And I would add one other thing. You have to ask yourself, if he
isn’t credible, if no one would believe him, why, why is the F.B.I. and the
Department of Justice fighting so hard to keep this man from telling what he
knows?
ES: Well, they may not want, they
may say he has no credibility and that there is no evidence to support anything
that he says, and that he’s full of it.
JT: Well, I can say this. Its been
three years in this fight, for this deposition. Not once has the F.B.I. appeared
in court and denied the accusations. They have fought to keep the deposition
from going forward, they have fought to keep documents from being produced by
claiming that, one of the arguments they made is that they had promised at
least four people anonymity and it would compromise their security if this
information came out.
ES: You know, we have seen, I must
say and it just happened this week, with the conviction of a former top F.B.I.
agent in Boston, in the Whitey Bulger case, who was convicted of involvement in
this and misdeeds in the past. What is your next step as you try to continue
this fight even though the government is so vigorously against
it?
JT: The next step will be the appeal
to the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit, It’ll be
hard fought. And indeed, as I said, everything about this case has been hard
fought.
ES: Jesse Trentadue, who will
continue in court. And you already have one federal judge on your side saying
you can go interview him and we’ll see if the appeals court sides with you or
with the government. Thanks very much for joining us on the Fox News
Chanel.
JT: Thank you for having me.
ES: Right.
(end)
November 16, 2008 Fox News Channel
update reported by Eric Shawn:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE 1995
A FEDERAL JUDGE GAVE
WELL NOW THE TRENTADUE FAMILY IS PUTTING UP A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLAR REWARD
FOR NEW INFORMATION.
TRENDTADUE’S BROTHER, KENNETH DIED
IN AN