Scott Horton
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There was so much in those files to be, you know, waded through.
So many independent journalists who were just- Where's all the footage too?
We know there was cameras.
FBI's got it.
By the way, this barely got any coverage, and I was so busy moving and everything, I did not follow up, but Matt Taibbi wrote a thing at Racket News about how they found this whole other collection of FBI files, a whole secret parallel stash
of fbi documents on like files on everything and everyone yeah um this is like i don't know what four weeks ago or something and it had slipped out someone had admitted that they had like this parallel filing system and somebody followed up like wait what what was that again you know was that you find that yeah there you go fbi secret stash finally uncovered for a generation the fbi has kept a second set of books called prohibited access files after a long flight they're finally being examined
So I don't know what all was found in there, but this is the stuff, man, I bet you, I bet you there's stuff on the Oklahoma bombing and Elohim City and stuff in there, dude.
You know, I interviewed an FBI agent who worked on the Oklahoma bombing case.
And this was, I don't know if you remember this, but right before McVeigh was executed in the summer of 2001,
Dan Rather from CBS News interviewed some FBI agents who said that they had worked on the McVeigh case, or the Oklahoma bombing case, and they knew they could testify that information that they had investigated was never turned over to the defense.
so they actually postponed mcveigh's execution for like six weeks while they found a bunch of boxes of stuff to turn over to his defense attorneys and then they turned around but i interviewed one of those fbi agents myself his name was rick o'hada and um
He said that even then, after they turned over all the boxes, the stuff that he investigated, which was about the white supremacists at Elohim City, McVeigh's friends out there in Eastern Oklahoma, that none of that stuff ever turned up, was ever disclosed.
So that's the kind of thing that makes me think, what's in these prohibited access files?
All the stuff that we don't want Danny to ever see goes over here in this separate drawer.
You can learn this, but you can't learn that.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
In fact, I just published a book by Ken Silva.
You might know Ken Silva from Headline USA.
He's a really great investigative reporter.
And we just published his book.