Was the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing really an FBI deep-cover operation that went wrong? That is the conclusion of a new book by an author who has studied the worst incident of domestic terrorism in America’s history for more than 20 years. Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, interviewed her and attorney Jesse Trentadue about the FBI’s role in covering up what it knew before the bombing occured, and afterwards.
Margaret Roberts is the author of the new book Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing. She was previously news director for the hit TV show, America’s Most Wanted. An award-winning investigative journalist, she is the only reporter who got a face-to-face interview with conspirator Terry Nichols, who is serving a life sentence in a Colorado federal prison. His co-conspirator, Timothy McVeigh, was executed in 2001 for his crimes, yet questions have lingered since the 1995 bombing that the FBI knew more than it was telling about the plot.
Roberts is joined by attorney Jesse Trentadue, whose brother Kenneth died while in custody after the bombing as a suspected co-conspirator. Jesse Trentadue has been looking into the FBI involvement in the Oklahoma City conspiracy for more than 20 years, for very personal reasons.
With efforts by new Attorney General Pamela Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel to release previously classified documents on a variety of FBI-related mysteries, Roberts hopes they will expose the government’s real role in the most devastating domestic terrorism incident on American soil.
“The Oklahoma City attack was not a lone wolf operation,” she tells the hosts. “It was manufactured terror — a sting operation that went sideways.”
On April 19, 1995, a massive bomb exploded in front of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in downtown Oklahoma City, slaughtering 168 people including 15 children in the building’s daycare center. Almost immediately, a massive federal manhunt focused on Timothy McVeigh. He believes that the unnamed second person seen by eyewitnesses getting out of the truck with McVeigh in front of the Alfred P. Murrah building, identified only in investigative records as “John Doe #2,” was in fact an FBI operative working undercover. This person “vanished into thin air” after the attack, and Roberts’s book concludes that “Timothy McVeigh had an accomplice in the bomb truck,” she said.
The interview was recorded by ZeroHedge, posted on X/Twitter, and is available below (the start of the interview is at at 44:12 of the video posted here).