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Behind the timelines, there is a story no one wants you to find.
Welcome to some unapproved thinking where forgotten truths, buried patterns, and
invisible systems rise to the surface.
You weren't crazy, you were just early.
Let's begin.
April 19th, 1995.
168 people died in Oklahoma City.
Timothy McVey took the blame, and with that it was case closed.
But what if the most devastating domestic terror attack in American history
was just the tip of an iceberg that investigators were ordered not to examine?
I remember the first time I really questioned something the government
told me, with absolute certainty.
It was not too many years after Oklahoma City.
When I started noticing how quickly certain stories get wrapped up, how
neatly the evidence gets packaged, how anyone asking uncomfortable questions
gets labeled as unpatriotic or crazy.
That's when I started digging into what really happened on that April morning.
What I found wasn't a lone wolf with a truck bomb.
What I found was a pattern of additional suspects who vanished from
the investigation, witnesses who died under mysterious circumstances and
evidence that pointed to a conspiracy so large it had to be buried to protect
the people who allowed it to happen.
Tonight we ask when a police officer who saved lives at the bombing scene
ends up dead for asking questions.
Maybe the questions were more dangerous than the answers
or even the bombing itself.
This is some unapproved thinking.
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We live in an age where domestic terrorism narratives shape policy,
justify surveillance expansion, and redefine the relationship between
citizens and their government.
Every attack quickly becomes yet another opportunity to expand federal power
while restricting individual liberty.
I've spent years watching how these crisises keep creating opportunity for
those who understand that public fear can be converted into political capital.
The bigger the crisis, the bigger the opportunity.
And Oklahoma City was one of the biggest domestic crisis of its time.
But what if the official story of Oklahoma City, the lone wolf narrative, the simple
truck bomb, the swift justice was all designed to hide a more complex truth.
That would've exposed intelligence agency involvement, government foreknowledge,
and a systematic coverup that reached the highest levels of federal law enforcement.
Mm-hmm.
The Post 9 1 1 World has made us all too familiar with how domestic terror
attacks can be used to justify expanded surveillance, increased federal power, and
new restrictions on our civil liberties.
But I think Oklahoma City was the template.
The original sketch as it were, um, for this was the first time domestic
terrorism was used to fundamentally reshape the relationship between the
American government and its citizens.
Understanding what really happened in Oklahoma City isn't just
about this one single attack.
Nope.
It's about recognizing how domestic terror operations might be conducted,
can be covered up and will be used to advance political agendas that couldn't
be achieved through the normal, dare say, legal democratic processes when the
people who were supposed to investigate the attack had advanced knowledge of it.
When witnesses who contradicted the official story died under
suspicious circumstances when evidence pointing to additional
conspirators was systematically buried.
You're not looking at a terrorist attack.
Nope.
You my friends, are witness to a government operation.
Okay.
Let's walk through the evidence that the Oklahoma City bombing was not the
work of some lone wolf, but rather a complex operation involving multiple
conspirators, government foreknowledge.
A systematic coverup that even continues to this day.
Let's start with the mysterious John Doe number two, who represents about the
most obvious hole in the official story?
You see, multiple witnesses at Elliot's Body Shop describes seeing
Timothy McVeigh with another man when they rented the truck that
would've eventually carry the bomb.
The FBI created sketches, launched a manhunt, and then.
Quietly dropped the investigation without explanation, but John Doe number two
wasn't the only additional suspect there was Andreas Strier, a German intelligence
operative who lived at the Elohim City white supremacist compound in Oklahoma.
Phone records show that McVeigh called Elohim City just two
weeks before the bombing asking specifically to speak with Strat Mir.
Now let me pause here and ask you, have you read the Congressional
investigation documents?
Yeah, yeah, I know they're heavily redacted, but what
remains is quite damning.
STRs Mir had connections to German intelligence services.
He was in the United States on an expired visa, but was never deported.
And after the bombing, he fled the country with what appears to
have been official assistance.
Then there is the Midwest Bank robbers, a white supremacist gang that robbed
at least 18 banks in the 1990s.
They too had direct connections to both McVey and the Elohim City compound.
Two gang members had been roommates with Strat Mir, the gang's leader.
Richard Guthrie even told authorities he had information about the
Oklahoma City bombing and that he was prepared to talk, but.
Guthrie was found dead in his jail cell the day after making this
offer officially ruled a suicide.
But the timing was remarkably convenient for people who didn't want him talking.
Terry Nichols McVay's co-conspirator, made multiple trips to the Philippines
in the months before the bombing.
He claimed he was looking for a wife, but witnesses reported that he was
asking about bomb making techniques and meeting with people connected
to international terrorist networks.
Now, to me, the most disturbing evidence involves government foreknowledge.
Multiple federal agencies had advanced warning that something was
planned for the Murra building A TF.
Agents were told not to come to work that day.
The FBI even had informants inside the white supremacist
networks planning the attack.
Wait, what?
Yeah, but instead of preventing the bombing, they just let it happen.
Why?
You may ask.
Well, basically because domestic terrorism serves political purposes
that preventing terrorism does not.
The Oklahoma City bombing justified the expansion of federal law enforcement
powers increased surveillance capabilities and new restrictions
on militia groups and gun owners.
The coverup here was swift and almost began immediately.
Police officer Terry Yake was one of the first responders at the bombing scene.
He saved multiple lives, but in the days and weeks that
followed, he became convinced that the official story was a lie.
So like anyone else, he started investigating on his own, collecting
evidence, interviewing witnesses, documenting inconsistencies.
Yankee told his family that federal officials were lying about what happened.
He said he had evidence that would expose the truth.
He was even scheduled to receive a medal for his heroic actions on the day of the
bombing, but instead of receiving a medal for all his good deeds, he was found
dead in a field allegedly by suicide.
However, the circumstances were quite impossible.
He had been shot, slashed, o and beaten as well.
There was evidence he had been restrained and his body was found
about a half mile from his car, which contained large amounts of blood.
So, um, does that sound like a suicide to you?
Yeah, me neither.
So again, the official story was that Yankee had cut his own throat and wrists,
then walked half a mile through a field before shooting himself in the head.
I guess that means he beat himself up too.
Look, anyone who's seen the crime scene photos knows this is
physically impossible, but hold on.
Yankee wasn't the only witness who died under suspicious circumstances.
Kenneth Renado was beaten to death in federal custody while being
questioned about the bombing.
His death too was ruled to suicide, but the autopsy photos show he
was tortured before being killed.
The pattern also extends into how evidence was handled.
The building itself was demolished with unusual speed, thus destroying
potential forensic evidence.
Surveillance videos from nearby buildings that might have shown additional
suspects were found, confiscated, and never released, and any witness
testimony that contradicted the official story was ignored or suppressed.
Congressional investigations found evidence of a systematic coverup involving
multiple federal agencies, but the most damaging findings were classified
and remain hidden from public view.
So basically what we do know is bad enough leaving what we don't
know to be probably far worse.
The Oklahoma City bombing wasn't a terrorist attack that
was investigated and solved.
It was a government operation that was covered up and blamed on
convenient patsies who couldn't expose the truth because they were
either dead or facing execution.
Now, as many of you know, this pattern of government involvement in domestic
terrorism followed by systematic coverups isn't unique to Oklahoma City.
Throughout American history, federal agencies have used similar tactics
to justify expanded powers and eliminate political opposition.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing provides about the most direct
parallel to Oklahoma City FBI Informant Emad Salem was working inside the
terrorist cell planning the attack.
He offered to substitute harmless powder for the real explosives,
but his FBI handlers told him to let the bombing proceed.
They wanted the attack to happen because it served their purposes.
Those that have read Salem's recorded conversations with his FBI handlers
know that their bone chilling.
The FBI had advanced knowledge of the World Trade Center bombing and chose to
let it happen rather than prevent it.
The same pattern appears in Oklahoma City.
The co Intel Pro operations of the 1960s and 1970s demonstrate how federal
agencies infiltrate, manipulate, and sometimes direct the very groups
they claim to be investigating.
The FBI didn't just monitor radical organizations.
They created them.
They funded them, and they even directed their activities.
Operation Gladio in Europe used similar tactics with intelligence agencies
creating and directing terrorist groups to justify expanded government powers
and eliminate political opposition.
The same techniques were imported to the United States and used
against domestic targets.
The Ruby Ridge incident in 1992 shows how federal agencies create the very
extremism they claim to be fighting.
Randy Weaver was entrapped by federal agents who pressured him to sell illegal
weapons, then used his refusal to cooperate as justification for a siege
that ultimately killed his wife and son.
How about the Waco Siege?
In 1993, it followed the same pattern.
The Branch Davidians were not a threat to anyone until federal agents created
a confrontation that resulted in the deaths of 76 people, including children.
Both Ruby Ridge and Waco were cited by McVey as motivations
for the Oklahoma City bombing.
But what if that wasn't coincidence?
What if Ruby Ridge and Waco were designed to create the very extremist backlash that
would justify the Oklahoma City operation?
The timeline is too convenient.
The connection's too obvious, the outcome's too beneficial to federal
agencies for this to be merely accidental.
The pattern reveals itself in how domestic terrorism serves government
interests better than foreign terrorism.
Foreign attacks justify military spending and oversees operations.
Domestic attacks justify surveillance, expansion, and restrictions
on constitutional rights.
So as you can see, historical precedent shows that federal agencies are
perfectly capable of conducting false flag operations when the political
benefits outweigh the moral costs.
The Oklahoma City bombing had all the characteristics of such an operation,
government, foreknowledge intelligence agency connections, convenient
patsies, and systematic coverup.
Understanding this history helps explain why questioning the Oklahoma
City narrative triggers such defensive responses from government
officials and the mainstream media.
It's not because the evidence is strong.
It's because the truth would expose a pattern of government sponsored
terrorism that continues to this day.
Hmm.
Let me examine the recurring mechanisms of government-sponsored domestic
terrorism, and let's see how they are applied to the Oklahoma City bombing.
The pattern always begins with intelligence agencies infiltrating
extremist groups not to prevent or even dismantle terrorism, but instead to direct
it toward more politically useful targets.
The FBI had informants inside the white supremacist networks
connected to McVeigh and Nichols.
Instead of preventing the bombing, they guided it toward maximum political impact.
We have all seen this pattern in settings where problems are allowed
to develop because solving them would eliminate opportunities for
expansion and increased budgets.
Government agencies operate the same way.
They need threats to justify their existence and growth.
Then convenient.
Patsy get selected and groomed to take responsibility for operations.
They didn't fully plan or control.
McVeigh and Nichols were perfect.
Patsy genuine extremists with real grievances who could be credibly
blamed for the attack while the real planners remained hidden.
The timing of domestic terror attacks consistently serves
specific political objectives.
Oklahoma City happened just as Congress was considering legislation to restrict
federal law enforcement powers.
The bombing provided justification for expanding those powers instead.
Multiple suspects get systematically eliminated from investigations to maintain
the lone wolf narrative like John Doe.
Number two, Andrea Strier, the Midwest Bank, robbers and International
Connections all disappeared from the official investigation despite
substantial evidence of their involvement.
Witnesses who contradict the official story, face intimidation,
discrediting, or elimination.
Terry Yankee.
Kenneth Trent to do.
Others who had evidence of government involvement died under suspicious
circumstances that were ruled suicides.
Despite obvious evidence of murder, evidence that would expose government
involvement gets destroyed, classified, or even suppressed, the Murra building
was demolished unusually quickly.
Surveillance videos were confiscated and never released.
And congressional investigation findings were classified to
prevent public disclosure.
The most insidious aspect is how domestic terrorism gets used to
justify the very policies that the terrorists supposedly opposed.
McVeigh claimed to be fighting government tyranny, but his attack was used to expand
government power and restrict the rights of the people he claimed to represent.
Mainstream media coverage focuses on the official narrative while ignoring
evidence of any government involvement.
The same outlets that investigate government corruption in other contexts
become stenographers for official stories.
When domestic terrorism is involved, the pattern even extends to how questioning
domestic terrorism narratives gets treated as evidence of extremism itself.
People who ask legitimate questions about government involvement get
labeled as tinfoil hat, wearing conspiracy theorists, unpatriotic, or
even potential terrorists themselves.
The most concerning pattern is how domestic terrorism creates precedence for
expanded government power that get applied far beyond their original justification.
The surveillance and law enforcement powers justified by Oklahoma City
were later expanded after nine 11 and are still growing today.
The patterns reveals that domestic terrorism serves government
interest so well that preventing it would actually harm the agencies
responsible for stopping it.
This creates perverse incentives where success is measured by
the expansion of power rather than the prevention of attacks.
But not everyone accepted the official Oklahoma City narrative or
participated in the coverup throughout the investigation and its aftermath.
Individuals chose truth over career advancement and integrity
over institutional loyalty.
Some FBI agents and federal investigators privately expressed
doubts about the official story and the systematic suppression of evidence
pointing to additional conspirators.
While few spoke publicly due to career consequences, their private
accounts suggest widespread knowledge within federal agencies that the
official story was incomplete.
Congressional investigators documented evidence of government foreknowledge
and coverup despite enormous pressure to accept the official narrative.
Their work, though heavily redacted and partially classified, provides
official confirmation that the Oklahoma City investigation was
compromised from the beginning.
Some have met people who worked on the congressional investigation.
While they can't or won't speak publicly about what they found, but their
private accounts make it clear that the truth about Oklahoma City is far more
disturbing than the official story.
Independent journalists investigated the connections between government
agencies and the bombing, despite facing professional
retaliation and legal threats.
Their work preserved evidence and testimony that official investigations
ignored or suppressed family members of victims refused to accept the
official story when evidence suggested government involvement in their loved
ones deaths, despite facing character assassination and legal pressure.
Some continued demanding answers that official investigations refuse to provide.
Witnesses who saw evidence of additional suspects maintain their accounts
despite intimidation and threats.
Their consistency over decades suggests that their testimony was accurate
and that the official investigation deliberately ignored credible evidence.
Some members of Congress continued asking questions about Oklahoma
City, despite political pressure to accept the official narrative.
Their persistence kept some aspects of the investigation
alive, even when other officials wanted the case closed permanently.
Some alternative media platforms provided a space for information and
analysis that mainstream outlets avoided.
They preserve testimony, evidence, and analysis that would've been
lost if it were only official channels covering the story.
But as always, the most important resistance came from ordinary Americans
like you and me who refuse to accept that their government would allow or facilitate
domestic terrorism for political gain.
Our skepticism and continued questioning helped to preserve the possibility
that the truth might eventually emerge.
All these outliers demonstrate that the Oklahoma City coverup
wasn't inevitable or complete.
Every person who preserved evidence, asked hard questions, or refused
to accept official lies, helped to maintain accountability for one
of the most significant domestic terrorism events in American history.
Ultimately, I think understanding the truth about Oklahoma City should
change how you evaluate domestic terrorism, government narratives.
And the relationship between federal agencies and the extremist
groups they claim to be fighting.
Every domestic terrorism event becomes a question worth examining
more carefully when attacks serve obvious political purposes.
When investigations ignore evidence of additional conspirators, when witnesses
die under suspicious circumstances, you start asking whether you're
witnessing terrorism or government operations disguised as terrorism.
The phrase domestic terrorism takes on a whole new meaning when you understand
how federal agencies might facilitate the very attacks they claim to be.
Preventing real terrorism threatens government power useful terrorism
expands government power while eliminating political opposition.
Government foreknowledge becomes a red flag rather than an intelligence failure.
When you recognize how advanced warning can be used to guide attacks
toward maximum political benefit, rather than prevent them entirely.
Agencies that fail to prevent attacks often benefit
enormously from their failures.
The importance of independent investigation becomes clear
when you understand how official investigations can be designed to
cover up rather than expose the truth.
When the same agencies that might have facilitated an attack are responsible
for investigating it, the investigation becomes part of the coverup.
Even witness protection takes on new significance.
When you realize that people with evidence of government involvement
in domestic terrorism face systematic elimination, the suspicious deaths of
Tara Yankee, Kenneth Trentadue, and others weren't coincidences, they were
the consequences of just knowing too much.
Pattern recognition becomes more important than individual case analysis when
similar coverup techniques appear across different domestic terrorism events.
Recognizing the pattern helps you understand that you might be witnessing
systematic government operations rather than random terrorist attacks.
Most importantly, you realize that domestic terrorism might be a
tool of government control rather than a threat to government power.
The attacks that seem most dangerous to the system often serve the system's
interests by justifying expanded powers and eliminating opposition.
Look, uh, the goal here isn't to become paranoid about every
single domestic terrorism event.
No.
It is to understand that government agencies have both the motive
and the means to facilitate attacks that serve their political
objectives while maintaining quote unquote plausible deniability.
When you understand that Oklahoma City might have been a government operation
rather than a terrorist attack.
You can make more informed decisions about how much trust to place in those
official narratives about domestic terrorism and how much skepticism
you should maintain when attacks conveniently serve government interests.
So they turned domestic terrorism into a tool of government expansion
and called it national security.
They facilitated the very attacks they claim to be preventing, then used those
attacks to justify powers they couldn't obtain through democratic processes.
I've traced this story from white supremacist compounds to federal
agencies, from congressional investigations to witness graves.
The same techniques used to create foreign enemies got turned
inward to create domestic ones.
April 19th, 1990 five, one hundred and sixty eight people died in Oklahoma City.
Including 19 children.
Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols took the blame.
But the real perpetrators were the federal agents who had advanced
knowledge of the attack, the intelligence operatives who guided the conspiracy
and the officials who covered up the truth to protect their own involvement.
John Doe number two, vanished from the investigation.
Andrea fled the country with official assistance.
The Midwest Bank robbers who funded the operation were ignored.
International connections were buried.
Multiple federal agencies had advanced warning, but chose
to let the attack proceed.
Terry Yankee saved lives at the bombing scene, then started SS King.
Questions about what really happened.
He was found dead in a field allegedly by suicide after
being shot, slashed, and beaten.
The official story was physically impossible.
It served the coverup.
Kenneth Trentadue was beaten to death in federal custody while
being questioned about the bombing.
Richard Guthrie was found dead in his cell the day after offering to reveal
the truth about government involvement.
The pattern of witness elimination was systematic and ongoing.
The building was demolished with breakneck speed destroying forensic evidence.
Surveillance videos were confiscated and never released.
Congressional investigation findings were classified to prevent public disclosure.
The coverup was as extensive as the original operation, but here's what
they couldn't cover up the pattern.
Once you understand how domestic terrorism serves government
interests, you can't unsee it.
Once you recognize how attacks get facilitated and then blamed on
convenient patsy, you can't accept official narratives without evidence.
The official story is that Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols planned and
executed the Oklahoma City bombing as revenge for Ruby Ridge and Waco.
The real story is that federal agencies facilitated the attack,
covered up their involvement, and used the deaths of 168 Americans to
justify expanded powers they couldn't obtain through constitutional means.
The buried truth isn't just about Oklahoma City.
It's about recognizing that your government might be the terrorist and
the terrorists might be the patsies.
When the people who were supposed to protect you are the ones
who allowed you to be attacked.
That's not a failure of the system.
That's the system working exactly as designed.
Tracy out
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