Some OKC Bombing tapes sanitized, released by FBI

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Some OKC Bombing tapes sanitized, released by FBI
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-09-27-okla-city-bombing-tapes_N.htm
http://www.examiner.com/x-6495-US-Intelligence-Examiner~y2009m9d28-Oklahoma-City-bombing-tapes-erased

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Long-secret security tapes showing the chaos immediately after the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building are blank in the minutes before the blast and appear to have been edited, an attorney who obtained the recordings said Sunday.

Trentadue began looking into the bombing after his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, died at the Oklahoma City Federal Transfer Center in August 1995. Jesse Trentadue alleges guards mistook his brother for a bomber and beat him to death during an interrogation. The official cause of Kenneth Trentadue's death is listed as suicide, but his body had 41 wounds and bruises that Jesse Trentadue believes could have come only from a beating.

Video: http://www.newsok.com/secret-footage-specifies-chaos-minutes-after-the-oklahoma-city-bombing/article/3404377
Below: Video frame from one of the cameras the FBI initially claimed didnt exist.

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An article I read said all four of the tapes are blank for about 4 minutes preceding 9:02 AM.  Then all click back on after 9:02.   The explanation given was that they were changing tapes . . .

It's stupid stuff like this that makes people wonder what the government is hiding.  Why were the tapes a State secret anyway?  Why won't they release the CIA documents associated with a nearly 15 year old crime?   The default position now-a-days is the public doesn't need to know. From 15 year old crimes to current dash cam videos - the "authorities" can see them and you can't.  Unless you sue.