Obama's Supreme pick tied to TWA 800, OKC bombing
By
Jack Cashill
WND.com
Da Noive! President
Barack Obama has chosen to nominate United States
Appeals Court Judge Merrick Garland to the Supreme
Court.
We are told he is a
“moderate,” but we know how that works. The other
“moderates” on the high court somehow manage to
march their way in lockstep to the officially
designated liberal position on every single major
case. Can anyone name an exception?
But that is the least
of my objections. Whatever his merits, Garland
served as Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick’s
“principal deputy” during the two most corrupt years
in American political history – the years leading up
to Bill Clinton’s reelection in 1996 – and that
service alone should kill his candidacy.
Although Garland has no
known connection with the TWA 800 investigation, it
happened during his watch, and his boss oversaw its
unprecedented misdirection.
My newest book on the
subject, “TWA
800: The Crash, The Cover-up, And the Conspiracy,” spells
out Gorelick’s role in all its unseemly detail. The
book will be published before the crash’s 20th
anniversary in July, but I would be happy to share
an advanced copy with any U.S. senator who wants to
know the truth.
In sum, Gorelick and
the Clintons pulled off the most successful cover-up
in American peacetime history. As a reward, the
otherwise unqualified Gorelick was named
vice-president of Fannie Mae in 1997, in which job
she made more than $25 million during the next six
years.
In 2004, Gorelick
resigned from Fannie Mae to assume one of only five
Democratic seats on the 9/11 Commission, a position
no one challenged until Attorney General John
Ashcroft testified before the commission on April
13, 2004.
“The single greatest
structural cause for the September 11th problem was
the wall that segregated or separated criminal
investigators and intelligence agents,” said
Ashcroft. “Government erected this wall, government
buttressed this wall, and before September 11th
government was blinded by this wall.”
Ashcroft spoke of the
memorandum that established the wall and added a
detail that had gone previously unspoken, “The
author of this memorandum is a member of the
commission.” He was referring, of course, to
Gorelick.
Thanks to a mother lode
of unearthed CIA documents and one key FBI video, we
now know that Gorelick breached her own “wall” to
allow the CIA and FBI to work hand and glove in the
subversion of the TWA 800 investigation. Senators
need to ask Garland what he knew about TWA 800 and
when he knew it.
Garland was deeply
involved with another questionable investigation,
that of the Oklahoma City bombing. In fact, he
supervised the prosecutions of Timothy McVeigh and
Terry Nichols. What someone needs to ask Garland is
what happened to John Doe No. 2.
In the way of
background, 20 minutes before the April 19, 1995,
blast in downtown Oklahoma City, employees at a tire
store spotted McVeigh and a short Mideastern-looking
man, in the infamous Ryder truck, and even gave the
pair directions to the Murrah building intersection.
Witness Daina Bradley
cried out to the rescuers who were trying to
extricate her after the blast – they had to amputate
her leg to do so – “It was a Ryder truck. It pulled
up, a foreign-looking man got out, and then before
long, everything went black.”
Five minutes before the
blast, printing operator Jerry Nance noticed an
unusual car in the downtown Oklahoma City parking
lot near where he worked. It was a dilapidated
yellow Mercury Marquis. Behind the wheel was a
dark-skinned, Middle Eastern-looking man in a ball
cap.
When Nance walked back
towards the car, after getting some stuff from his
own car, the Mercury Marquis almost ran him over.
The Middle Eastern man was now sitting in the
passenger seat, and a tall white man was driving the
car out of the parking lot, recklessly at that.
Two minutes later, the
Murrah building blew. Nance informed the FBI of this
incident before anyone knew McVeigh was apprehended
in a yellow Mercury Marquis.
A week later, the FBI
quoted Nance and the tire store employees in its
request before a federal judge to hold McVeigh over
for trial. One of the tire store employees picked
McVeigh out of a lineup of look-alikes even before
he saw McVeigh on TV.
According to the
Washington Post of April 28, 1995, a federal judge
ordered McVeigh to be held after an FBI agent
“described eyewitness accounts of a yellow
Mercury with McVeigh and another man inside speeding away from a parking lot
near the federal building.” (Italics added.)
For the next six weeks,
John Doe No. 2 was the most hunted man in the world
until, without explanation, he just kind of went
away, again without the media even commenting on his
disappearance. Perhaps Garland could shed some
lights on his whereabouts.
Garland was also
involved with the Olympic Park bombing. As the
reader may recall, security guard Richard Jewell was
patrolling the grounds of Centennial Park in
Atlanta.
Right around midnight
he spotted a large olive-green military-style
backpack under a bench. He immediately shared this
info with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Jewell and the GBI agent then started to clear an
area around the pack.
Soon afterward, the
pack exploded. Two people died, and more than a
hundred were injured. If Jewell had not seen this
40-pound bomb, it might have killed hundreds.
Likely fearing an
Islamic connection as they did in Oklahoma City, the
Clinton people turned on the transparently innocent
Richard Jewell and hounded him all the way to the
November election. Our senators might want to ask
who authorized the hounding.
In fact, there are a
lot of questions they should ask, and to start, they
might call in Gorelick and Hillary as character
witnesses.