Blood and Politics (115 page)

  
2.
“Petition for Writ of Mandamus of Petitioner Defendant, Timothy James McVeigh and Brief in Support,”
Timothy James McVeigh v. Honorable Richard P. Matsch
, 96-CR-68-M, received March 25, 1997, by Patrick Fisher, clerk; Amber McLaughlin (for Stephan Jones firm), letters to Lawrence Myers (for
Media ByPass
magazine), February 16, 1996, and March 20, 1996, providing McVeigh phone records, a transcribed interview with potential witness, and handwriting samples, and reminding Myers of a signed non-disclosure agreement; Leslie Jorgensen, “A Dangerous Defense Campaign,”
Colorado Statesman
, March 19, 1997 (Jorgensen reported well and regularly on the twists and turns of the Jones defense strategy); Gerry Gable, letter to author, January 13, 1996 (Gable met with Jones in London, Kelsey).

3.
Jo Thomas, “U.S. Judge in Colorado to Hear Bombing Case,”
The New York Times
, December 5, 1995.

  
4.
Richard A. Serrano,
One of Ours: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing
, p. 256; Robert Nigh, interview with James Ridgeway and Leonard Zeskind, March 1996. Nigh mentioned defense expense records specifically.

  
5.
Joseph H. Hatzler, “Opening statement for prosecution,”
United States of America v. Timothy James McVeigh
, Criminal Action no. 96-CR-68, April 24, 1997, reporter’s transcript; Serrano,
One of Ours
.

  
6.
“FBI Expert to Testify in Okla,” Associated Press, February 28, 1996; David Johnston, “F.B.I. Lab Practices Faulted in Oklahoma Bomb Inquiry,”
The New York Times
, January 31, 1997; Jo Thomas, “A Tarnished Case: Flaws at F.B.I. Lab Offer Latest Setback to Prosecutors in Oklahoma City Bombing,”
The New York Times
, April 17, 1997; Jo Thomas, “F.B.I. Handling of Evidence Is Attacked at Bomb Trial, Expert Defends Government’s Procedure,”
The New York Times
, May 21, 1997 (Linda Jones of the Forensics Explosives Laboratory in the British Ministry of Defense testified for the prosecution).

  
7.
Lori Fortier, “Direct Testimony,” April 29, 1997, Criminal Action no. 96-CR-68, April 24, 1997, reporter’s transcript; Lori Fortier Cross Examination, April 30, 1997; Scott Cannon, “Friend Links McVeigh, Bombing,”
The Kansas City Star
, April 30, 1997.

  
8.
Jo Thomas, “Friend Says McVeigh Wanted Bombing to Start an ‘Uprising,’”
The New York Times
, May 13, 1997; Richard Serrano, “U.S. Says It Has Key to Truck in Oklahoma Bombing Case,”
The Los Angeles Times
, May 14, 1997; Scott Cannon, “Focus Shifts from Fortier to Truck,”
The Kansas City Star
, May 14, 1997.

  
9.
Jennifer McVeigh, “Testimony in the Timothy McVeigh Trial,” May 5, 1997, unedited transcript provided by Court TV Online,
www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/oklahoma/transcripts
; Jo Thomas, “McVeigh’s Sister, Weeping, Testifies on Her Brother’s Moves,”
The New York Times
, May 7, 1997; Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck,
American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing
(New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 88–89 (according to this account, McVeigh joined a Klan group while he was in the army).

10.
Stephen Jones and Peter Israel,
Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma Bombing Conspiracy
, pp. 331–43.

11.
James Ridgeway, “Terry Nichols’s Posse,”
The Village Voice
, October, 7, 1997; Sara Rimer and James Bennet, “Rejecting the Authority of the U.S. Government,”
The New York Times
, April 24, 1995; Judy Thomas, “Women Say They Can’t See Nichols as Deadly Bomber,”
The Kansas City Star
, August 11, 1995.

12.
Peter G. Chronis, “Tigar a Courtroom Legend,”
The Sunday Denver Post
, September 28, 1997.

13.
Michael Tigar, “Opening Statement,” November 3, 1997,
United States of America v. Terry Lynn Nichols
, United States District Court for Colorado, Criminal Action no. 96-CR-68,
www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/oklahoma/transcripts
; Kevin Murphy, “Lawyers Depict Two Sides of Nichols as Trial Begins,”
The Kansas City Star
, November 4, 1997; John Kifner, “Case Against Nichols Is Thin, Lawyer Says,”
The New York Times
, May 26, 1995.

14.
Joan Millar, “Direct Testimony,” December 10, 1997,
United States of America v. Terry Lynn Nichols
, trial transcript,
www.courttv.com/archive/casefiles/oklahoma/transcripts
.

15.
Jo Thomas, “At Her Trial, Plot Suspect Reveals a Double Life,”
The New York Times
, August 2, 1997.

16.
Joan Millar, “Testimony,” December 10, 1997; Carol Howe, “Testimony,” December 10, 1997,
United States v. Nichols
, trial transcript.

17.
Millar, “Testimony.”

18.
Howe, “Testimony.”

19.
During Nichols’s trial, prosecutors presented evidence that Nichols’s truck was seen at Geary Lake—the presumed bomb-manufacturing site—but they did not present evidence that Nichols himself had been seen there. And testimony on the process of mixing the bomb ingredients was not compelling.

20.
Jo Thomas, “Nichols Guilty of Plotting Bomb Attack in Oklahoma, But Not of the Blast Itself,”
The New York Times
, December 24, 1997; Sandy Shore, “Judge: Nichols Can Face Death,”
Associated Press
, December 25, 1997; James Brooke, “A Few Determined
Holdouts Block Death Penalty Verdict for Nichols,”
The New York Times
, January 11, 1998.

21.
Rick Bragg, “As Execution Nears, FBI Blunder Does Not Change McVeigh Crimes,”
The New York Times
, June 10, 2001; Rick Bragg, “McVeigh Dies for Oklahoma City Blast,”
The New York Times
, June 12, 2001.

22.
Leonard Zeskind, “Denver Skinhead Murder a Taste of Things to Come?,”
Searchlight
, January 1998, p. 22.

23.
Rick Bragg, “Abortion Clinic Bomb Was Intended to Kill, an Official Says,”
The New York Times
, January 31, 1998 (“The bombing made history”); Jay Reeves, “Bombing at Alabama Abortion Clinic Kills Guard, Critically Injures Nurse,” Associated Press, January 29, 1998.

24.
David Johnston with Kevin Sack, “New Evidence Said to Link Olympic and Abortion Clinic Bombings,”
The New York Times
, February 27, 1998; Kathy Scruggs and Ron Martz, “Bombings Linked, ATF Agent Says,”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, June 10, 1997.

25.
Gina M. Smith and John Harmin, “Gray Truck Provides Lead in Bombing,”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, January 31, 1998; “Text of Letter From ‘Army of God,’” Atlanta, Reuters News Service, February 2, 1998, 9:08 p.m.; James Risen and Judy L. Thomas,
Wrath of Angels: The American Abortion War
, pp. 366–70.

26.
Eric Rudolph, “Lil,”
www.armyofgod.com/EricRudolphTil.html
(describes Rudolph’s life in the woods while he evaded capture);
United States of America v. Eric Robert Rudolph
, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Indictment no. CR-00-N-S.

27.
Lawrence W. Myers, “Executing Judgement: Inside the Army of God (II),”
Media Bypass
, January 1999; “Running with Rudolph” (interview with Deborah Rudolph), Southern Poverty Law Center’s
Intelligence Report
104 (Winter 2001), pp. 35–39; Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt,
The Silent Brotherhood
, p. 394 (for Gayman, The Order, and money); Eric Rudolph, “Full text of Eric Rudolph’s written statement,”
www.armyofgod.com/EricRudolphstatement/html
.

28.
Nord Davis, Jr., letter to Ms. Davis-McCoy of North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, March 27, 1991; Nord Davis, Jr.,
Desert Shield and the New World Order
, Northpoint Tactical Teams, n.d.; North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence, “Memo to Concerned Media: Nord Davis and NCARRV’s 1990 Report,” March 6, 1991.

29.
Eric Rudolph, “Full text of Eric Rudolph’s written statement” (Rudolph says he rejects the Christian Identity belief system).

30.
Jeffrey Gettleman, “Sympathy for Bombing Suspect May Cloud Search for Evidence,”
The New York Times
, June 3, 2003; “Laura Blackly: Eric Rudolph Ain’t No Hero,”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o0Aq5Hkjc4&feature=related
.

31.
Kathy Scruggs, “Possible Rudolph Sighting Reported,”
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
, August 18, 1998.

32.
“5-Year Hunt for Bombing Suspect Ends,”
The Kansas City Star
, June 1, 2003; “Rudolph Pleads Guilty to Bombings in Atlanta and Birmingham,” news release, April 13, 2005, United States Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Georgia.

33.
Terrorism in the United States 1997
, Counterterrorism Threat Assessment and Warning Unit, National Security Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.

49. The United States Congress and the Council of Conservative Citizens

  
1.
House Resolution 35, “Condemning the racism and bigotry of the Council of Conservative Citizens,” news release, contact Josh Rogin, February 2, 1999; “[Cong. Patrick] Kennedy Condemns Racism, Bigotry Espoused by Council of Conservative Citizens,” press release, contact Larry Berman, February 19, 1999.

  
2.
Thomas Edsall, “Resolution Targets Council of Conservative Citizens,”
The Washington Post
, January 30, 1999.

  
3.
Michael Barone and Grant Ujifusa, “Georgia Seventh District,”
Almanac of American Politics 1996
(Washington, D.C.: National Journal, 1995).

  
4.
“Remembering Larry McDonald: the distinguished congressman and chairman of the John Birch Society was an effective and implacable foe of Communism and international terrorism,”
The New American
, September 8, 2003; “Klans Mourn Larry McDonald,”
The Hammer
5 (Winter 1984).

  
5.
“CofCC National Conference in South Carolina June 5–6” (photo “with Rep. Bob Barr . . .”),
Citizens Informer
29 (3rd Quarter 1998), p. 3.

  
6.
Thomas Edsall, “Barr Spoke to White Supremacy Group,”
The Washington Post
, December 11, 1998; Thomas Edsall, “Barr Rejects Racial Views of Group He Visited,”
The Washington Post
, December 12, 1998.

  
7.
Thomas Edsall, “Lott Renounces White ‘Racialist’ Group He Praised in 1992,”
The Washington Post
, December 16, 1998; Colbert I. King, “Lott’s Odd Friends,”
The Washington Post
, December 19, 1998.

  
8.
Jerry Mitchell, “Republicans Being Urged to Quit Organization by National Chairman,”
The Clarion-Ledger
, January 22, 1999.

  
9.
“RNC Member Quits Council of Conservative Citizens over Racism,” Associated Press, February 28, 1999.

10.
Juliet Eilperin, “GOP Blocks Effort to Cite Group as Racist, Measure Targeted Citizens Council,”
The Washington Post
, March 24, 1999.

11.
Editorial, “Watered-Down Racism Resolution,”
The New York Times
, March 23, 1999.

12.
Ishmael Reed, “Unequal Rights for Haters,” Salon.com, January 23, 1999.

13.
Peter Applebome, “Divisive Words: The Record, Lott’s Walk Near the Incendiary Edge of Southern History,”
The New York Times
, December 13, 2002; John Meacham, “The Past That Made Him—and May Undo Him: Race and the Rise of Trent Lott,”
Newsweek
, December 23, 2002, pp. 23–37; Samuel Francis, “Lott May Have Unintentionally Said Something True,”
Council of Conservative Citizens
,
www.cofcc.org
, December 13, 2002.

14.
Leonard Zeskind, “American Renaissance Defends the ‘West,’”
Searchlight
, April 2002; Lawrence W. Myers, “Gordon Lee Baum, ‘Five Rules for Effective Cultural Activism,’”
Media Bypass
, January 1999, pp. 27–29.

15.
“CofCC Conference in North Carolina November 14–15 Big Success,”
Citizens Informer
29 (Winter 1997–98), p. 3; communication to author, Council of Conservative Citizens’ semi-annual conference, November 14–15, 1997, in Winston-Salem, N.C., transcript, part 2, January 9, 1998, pp. 20–29.

16.
“The Alliance in the Media,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, July 1999, p. 4; Brent Nelson, ed., “Issue Number One: Conservative Reactions to Multi-Cultural America,” Occasional Papers of the Conservative Citizens’ Foundation, 1997; Brent Nelson, ed., “Issue Number Two: Balkanization, Separatism or National Unity?,” Occasional Papers of the Conservative Citizens’ Foundation, 1998.

17.
Frances Bell, “Put It Back on the Dome: Massive CofCC Rally Protests Lowering Confederate Flag in South Carolina,”
Citizens Informer
21 (July/August 2000), p. 1; “Alabama Immigration Rally,”
Citizens Informer
28 (Winter 1997–98), p. 5.

18.
“Building Bridges to Europe,”
Citizens Informer
29 (3rd Quarter 1998), p. 4.

19.
Robert Chiarella, “Council of Conservative Citizens Goes to France,”
Citizens Informer
(1st Quarter 1999), p. 4.

20.
Earl P. Holt III, “The Nuts and Bolts of Immigration Reform Rallies,”
Citizens Informer
(January/February 2003).

21.
Editorial Advisory Board, including: Virginia Abernethy, Ph.D., Wayne Lutton, Ph.D., Brent A. Nelson, Ph.D.,
Citizens Informer
21 (March/April 2001).

50. National Alliance Remakes Resistance Records

  
1.
“European Festival Huge Success,”
National Alliance Bulletin
, April 1999, pp. 1–5.

  
2.
Clint O’Conner, “Sounds of Hate, Resistance Records, Local Neo-Nazi Uses Rock to Spew Racist Doctrine,”
The Plain Dealer
, March 5, 2000.