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What’s a conspiracy theory you no longer call a theory?
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The ATF at least had advance notice of the Oklahoma City Bombing, and perhaps had a hand in planning it and carrying it out.
Four most damning points:
ATF employees in the Federal Building were mysteriously seen emptying their offices out the day before. Despite it being a normal weekday and normal workday, none of them happened to be in the office on that particular day.
Despite all the chaos and destruction left in the wake of the bombing (and ongoing search for survivors), they supposedly found the license plate of the rental truck and called the rental company and found out who rented the truck ... all within 30 minutes of the explosion. (And this is with 90's tech, by the way, so it all had to be done over the phone and mostly with paper records.) Within only hours, local police found the (alleged) perpetrator, supposedly in a completely random, unrelated traffic stop. (To me, this reeks of them already knowing exactly who did it and where he was, and them using parallel construction to find a chain of evidence for that which wouldn't lead back to them.)
The surveillance tapes of several nearby businesses were seized as part of the investigation. That's fairly normal. What's not normal is that none of those tapes were ever seen by the public again, not even featuring as evidence in the ensuing court cases. They were collected as evidence and then just ... disappeared forever.
With astounding quickness -- in less than 30 days -- the entire site was bulldozed and paved over, destroying and covering up any evidence that may have been there. It was a huge building, the site of a major disaster, and an active crime scene ... and they still managed to turn it into a parking lot within only 30 days.
Very suspicious points