I can't remember the two sources where I saw this now, but last week I read about information coming out (thanks to declassified sources) that said the bombing may have also been the end result of an FBI sting gone bad.
An FBI informant (whose name I forget now, but they mentioned it in the article) had been working with McVeigh and Nichols, both of whom had been watched both by the FBI and the BATF for several months by April of '95. It was the informant who managed to get the explosive materials with the help of the FBI, which he then passed on to the two soon-to-be bombers. The idea was that the FBI would then swoop down on McVeigh and Nichols, but for reasons unclear ("unclear" being the way the reports put it) the sting never happened, and the Murrah Federal Building was destroyed.
I'm interested to see if anything more comes out of this.
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An FBI informant (whose name I forget now, but they mentioned it in the article) had been working with McVeigh and Nichols, both of whom had been watched both by the FBI and the BATF for several months by April of '95. It was the informant who managed to get the explosive materials with the help of the FBI, which he then passed on to the two soon-to-be bombers. The idea was that the FBI would then swoop down on McVeigh and Nichols, but for reasons unclear ("unclear" being the way the reports put it) the sting never happened, and the Murrah Federal Building was destroyed.
I'm interested to see if anything more comes out of this.