tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434842591971703006.post4863048075141747820..comments2023-05-11T04:57:33.365-07:00Comments on Trees For Lunch: Whatever Happened to John Doe #2, part IIUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434842591971703006.post-64186585324759620222010-05-14T16:33:02.300-07:002010-05-14T16:33:02.300-07:00The feds began to back away from the John Doe #2 s...The feds began to back away from the John Doe #2 story as early as June 1995; describing it as a mis-identification. Washington Post article on 6/15/95 "FBI Finds `John Doe 2,' Drops Him as Suspect"<br /><br />It was a mistake. They located and identified the guy in the indentikit pictures and he was at the rental agency at a different time - no connection to McVeigh.<br /><br />"<i>The FBI has maintained that coincidence is the best way to explain John Doe No. 2, whose character sketch was drawn mainly from the account of an eyewitness at the Junction City shop where the Ryder truck was rented. That witness, the FBI says, mixed up his recollections and mistakenly identified a man who came in the next day to rent a truck -- a 23-year-old soldier named Todd Bunting -- as an accomplice of McVeigh's. Bunting, who was cleared of any connection to the crime, vaguely resembled the composite drawing and wore clothes similar to those in the drawing, including a Carolina Panthers ball cap</i>"<br /><br /><br /><i>"...host Rachel Maddow can't resist an attempt to peg the Oklahoma City bombing to current events.</i>"<br /><br />Let's face it. The heated rhetoric coming out the Tea Partys and groups like the Oath Keepers is pretty much indistinguishable from the ranting of the militias in the early 1990's. <br /><br />Of course, the ones making the noise aren't the ones who will be committing the deadliest violence. The violent actors will be under the radar but drawing energy from the ranters.<br /><br />Let's just the way it goes.Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09285258053111697778noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434842591971703006.post-31883224517104001022010-05-14T14:23:01.179-07:002010-05-14T14:23:01.179-07:00Just a theory Gregg.
Even if you set the alleged...Just a theory Gregg. <br /><br />Even if you set the alleged ties to Islamic extremism aside, I still find it kind of creepy that Maddow was trying to tie in today's protesters with a convicted bomber.J Curtishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12746127431922685446noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4434842591971703006.post-19092933916129559362010-05-14T08:06:29.856-07:002010-05-14T08:06:29.856-07:00So much to digest and think about. Will have to re...So much to digest and think about. Will have to re-read this.Gregg Metcalfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413691313803396844noreply@blogger.com