It is inconceivable that McVeigh could be given a lethal injection next month or six months from now, or a year or two from now with questions about what really happened still unanswered. McVeigh claims he has told us what happened, repeating in a letter to the Houston Chronicle this week that there were no other conspirators. The truth is on my side, he reportedly wrote. But for those who believe he has yet to come clean, the prospect of his maintaining his silence all the way to the grave is nearly as horrifying as the crime he committed six years ago. Even if McVeigh was part of a broader conspiracy, he is still the worst mass murderer in American history a remorseless, evil man who remains proud of what he did.
Dead men don t talk.
If McVeigh was to have a change of heart I would like for him to be able to tell us what happened. Freeh s eight years at the top have been marked by a remarkable series of missteps. There was the persecution of Richard Jewell, falsely accused of the Olympic bombing in Atlanta, and of Wen Ho Lee, the former Los Alamos scientist who was jailed for months in a spying probe that eventually fell apart. There s Robert Hanssen, the agent accused of treason, and the FBI crime lab, exposed as shoddy and incompetent. It was that last event that McVeigh claims inspired his attack in Oklahoma City.