Peter Schweizer: Book Claims Oklahoma City Bombing Was ‘Manufactured Terror’ with Deep FBI Involvement 1/2

BREITBART NEWS 30 Jul 2025

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.

Margaret Roberts, author of the new book Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing, 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 co-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’s book is well-timed, with the FBI under the microscope for its role in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, as well as the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, and Roberts joins The Drill Down to discuss with hosts Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers what she learned.

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.

Roberts’s research has produced evidence of a neo-Nazi plot by awhite supremacist group called the Aryan Republican Army, in which the FBI played a hidden role. To conceal its counter-terrorism operations, the FBI allowed suspects, whom she names, to walk free, thus denying justice to the victims and hiding the truth.

“I had been the news director of America’s Most Wanted, worked hand in glove with the FBI for three years on the highest profile manhunt stories,” she tells the hosts. “And this story, before it took a big U-turn, was a manhunt story because 24 eyewitnesses on the ground in Oklahoma City on April 19 saw not just Timothy McVeigh in the Ryder truck, but a never-identified accomplice who rode next to him and was known only as John Doe #2, who exited the truck with Timothy McVeigh and vanished into thin air… Timothy McVeigh had an accomplice in the bomb truck.”

“It’s a shocking claim,” says Eric Eggers.

Roberts followed a trail laid by “an attorney named Jesse Trentedue, who pressed landmark Freedom of Information Act litigation to force pieces of the untold story into the public view.” Trentadue sued the FBI over the documents,and his star witness, a top FBI deep-cover agent named John Matthews was scheduled to testify but backed out under pressure from the bureau.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/30/peter-schweizer-oklahoma-city-bombing-manufactured-terror-fbi/

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She learned of an FBI program known as “Patriot Conspiracy” or PATCON. As part of that program, Matthews infiltrated 22 extremist groups that could be capable of acts of domestic terrorism. Many intelligence and law enforcement people have long warned, though, that the problem with this law enforcement tactic is knowing where the surveillance ends and entrapment and incitement begin.

Matthews left that FBI program because he became disillusioned by what it was doing, Roberts says. “As he said to me, ‘it was set up to incite violence and I signed on to stop the violence.’”

Matthews told her that he believed thatthe bombing was a PATCON operation that did not intend for the bomb to go off. “It was intended to catch the terrorists,” she says.

“But his bombshell revelation, which he said he knew directly, was that the FBI had set up the Aryan Republican Army terror group as a front group to incite violence,” she says.

“So instead of preventing violence, were they accelerating it?” asks Schweizer.

“Nichols told me that his agenda was revenge. But he mentioned a man named Roger Moore as a third conspirator who he believes was a government provocateur,” and that it was Moore who provided the explosives.” Moore, retired in Florida, denied the claim in 2005.

Yet, all this is not a history book, because some of the same FBI tactics have been speculated to have been at work in other (foiled) incidents like the Boston Marathon bombing, and particularly in the attempt on the life of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “There seemed to be a lot of undercover operators in that case,” she notes.

Nichols even told her that McVeigh had once “slipped” in conversation with him and said that he was himself acting as a government asset. That, she says, was echoed by a fellow death-row prisoner who told her the same thing, as well as by McVeigh’s first public defenders, assigned to him right after his arrest.

Schweizer points out that government agencies develop incentives to increase their funding by making a problem seem worse. He wonders if that happened in the Oklahoma City case. “We know some of these groups exist, but government agencies get budgets based on the demand for their services.

You don’t get a bigger budget by downplaying threats; I think it would help the FBI to be transparent.”

“My book is the origin story for how we got to where we are. Everyone wants transparency and we know we don’t have it,” she says. “Something important to consider is the cost of the concealment,” she says, in terms of public trust.

“The FBI collected surveillance videotape of the delivery of that bomb, of the two men getting out of the truck. If we had been, but the FBI never allowed the American public to see those images, which would answer so many questions.”

What would she like to see the federal government do to bring greater transparency?

Matthews’s sealed deposition has never been made public, after he withdrew under FBI pressure from testifying in Trentadue’s lawsuit. “[Atty. Gen. Pamela] Bondi has a letter from Trentadue asking for the Department of Justice to stand down and release that deposition. She also believes the archival video footage showing who got out of that truck in front of the Murrah building should be released. Finally, she thinks the Senate Judiciary

Committee should hold hearings on the entire PATCON effort, modeling on the 1975 Church Committee hearings.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/07/30/peter-schweizer-oklahoma-city-bombing-manufactured-terror-fbi/

(I hope Trump, Kash, Dan and DOJ reveal the FBI has always been a terrorist organization, and they destroy the culture and rot, there are still a lot of culprits there.)

Congress, Constitutional Law

“This is BS, Plain and Simple”: Democrats Sue to Gain Unlimited Access to Federal Facilities

JONATHAN TURLEY July 31, 2025

Democratic members are again claiming that they can demand access to any federal facilities without approval or even notice to a given agency. We saw previously how Rep. LaMonica McIver stormed an ICE facility and allegedly assaulted an officer. She and others claimed that they had the right of entry without the pre-approval of the agency. Now, after another attempted entry at an ICE facility in Baltimore, an array of Democratic members have sued over their denial.The lawsuit is, in my view, fundamentally flawed, but the members appear to be hoping for another obliging judge. Both sides could be adopting Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s position outside of the ICE facility that “This is BS, plain and simple.”

This week, Van Hollen and several other House and Senate Democrats showed up in Baltimore at the Fallon Federal Building and demanded entry. The group included Sen. Angela Alsobrooks and four members of Maryland’s House delegation: Reps. Glenn Ivey, Johnny Olszewski, Sarah Elfreth and Kweisi Mfume. They then carried out a brief sit-in outside of the door and Van Hollen even objected that the sign said “Welcome,” but they were not welcomed.

As with McIver, the Democrats insisted thatthey could just show up at any federal office or facility and demand access as a matter of oversight authority. If that were the case, members could barge into any executive office from the White House to the weather service without warning or approval.No court has ever recognized such authoritysince it would eviscerate the inherent powers of the Executive Branch in our tripartite constitutional system.

The complaint offers a jumbled collection of claims and is poorly conceived and crafted, in my view.

The most relevant seems to be Section 527(a) of the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law 118–47), which states that:

“None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Homeland Security by this Act may be used to prevent…a Member of Congress…from entering, for the purpose of conducting oversight, any facility operated by or for the Department of Homeland Security used to detain or otherwise house aliens.”

The Fiscal Year 2024 Appropriations Act also included a provision that states “the Department of Homeland Security may require that a request be made at least 24 hours in advance of an intent to enter a facility described in subsection (a).”

First, even if constitutional, this provision only applies to facilities that are used to “detain or other house aliens.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has contested that status in past protests.Second, the law cannot, and arguably does not, give carte blanche for instant access. An agency can demand notice to allow it to protect the security and safety of personnel and visitors. DHS can argue that it is not denying entrance so long as they are given notice in advance.

The issue is not the right to inspect but the right to instant access. Of course, the members filed in Baltimore and may hope for a judge who more accommodating that scrutinizing on authority.

The members could argue that oversight, at times, requires inspections without prior warning to prevent the loss of evidence or agency efforts to conceal poor conditions. However, if the Congress can force such immediate access to ICE facilities, it could presumably demand such access on any federal property. All agencies are subject to the oversight of one or more congressional committees. That sweeping authority runs against the grain of Article II and can create dangerous and obstructive elements for federal officials.

Courts are tasked with reading laws narrowly to avoid such constitutional questions. The question is what constitutes “preventing” under the law. The Administration is not denying access, just requiring advance notice.

This sets up a conflict between Article I and Article II authority. The Administration will argue that immediate and unrestricted access to any ICE facility intrudes on the ability to exercise executive authority. In my view, there must be some area for reasonable limitations on the exercise of oversight authority. What is absolutely clear is that members cannot seek, as did Rep. McIver to force their way into facilties.

Here is the lawsuit: Neguse v. ICE

https://jonathanturley.org/2025/07/31/this-is-bs-plain-and-simple-democrats-sue-to-gain-unlimited-access-to-federal-facilities/

Whistleblower on Russia collusion hoax threatened over reporting wrongdoing: ODNI

The whistleblower's firsthand account includes statements from their direct supervisor pressuring them to endorse the January 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment to receive a promotion

By Natalia Mittelstadt Updated: July 31, 2025 8:04am

A senior intelligence official, who was a whistleblower in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, was threatened over reporting wrongdoing, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

On Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released new documents that give afirsthand account of what the office say is the whistleblower's "relentless efforts to expose the egregious manipulation and manufacturing of intelligence."

The documents include the whistleblower's work done in the months leading up to the November 2016 election, their concerns about using "discredited information as then-DNI Clapper and Central Intelligence Agency Director Brennan worked to craft the January 2017 Intelligence Community

Assessment (ICA) at President Obama’s request," and how a direct supervisor attempted to pressure them to endorse the key findings of the ICA about the Russian government's alleged support for Donald Trump at the time, according to the office.

“Thank you to the brave Intelligence Community Whistleblower who courageously came forward to expose the truth about one of the biggest and most impactful scandals in our nation’s history,” Gabbard said in a statement.

The documents include what the whistleblower alleges are statements from a direct supervisor pressuring intelligence officials to endorse the ICA to receive a promotion and concerns over flawed intelligence practices, such as choosing to use open-source references to Russian media as “evidence” for the Russian government’s support for Trump, but ignoring foreign media from other countries, including NATO allies, that supported Hillary Clinton and denigrated Trump.

According to the whistleblower's records, then-DNI James Clapper and other senior Obama administration officials denounced the Steele dossier privately, but also ensured that the January 2017 ICA included it.

The dossier was political opposition research on Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign compiled by British counterintelligence specialist Christopher Steele. The finding in the report that the campaign appeared to collude with Russia have now been debunked.

The whistleblower reported their concerns to more than a dozen government offices including to the office of Justice Department special counsel John Durham, the intelligence community inspector general, a U.S. senator and other official whistleblower channels over the last six years.

https://justthenews.com/accountability/whistleblowers/russia-collusion-hoax-whistleblower-threatened-over-reporting?utm_source=mux&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=social-media-autopost

I read his report yesterday, he went through HOLY HELL for years, no one would listen to him or help him, even the entire IG Agency disappeared or redirected him to others, none of them would take his info, the guy never stopped from trying to expose what a Hoax it was and is. He was jerked around for more than 3+ years, no one in the IG agency would help him, the DOJ, the DOD, anywhere he went to expose this, or get to do his job again, they just slammed the door on him. I’m so glad he never gave up. PDJT should award him with a Medal of Honor (not publicly), he deserves a ton of respect.

FBI Hid Evidence Tied to Hillary, Obama in VA Office Since 2018: Grassley and Crawford [WATCH]

By LifeZette News Staff July 30, 20251/2

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR) have formally demanded the FBI immediately review a cache of unexamined evidence connected to the Hillary Clinton email investigation, according to a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel and released publicly this week.

The letter, signed by both lawmakers, reveals that thumb drives containing potentially critical evidence—including classified intelligence, foreign communications, and data related to the Clinton Foundation and former President Barack Obama—have been in FBI possession since 2018 but have never been reviewed.

“Thumb drives containing unreviewed info on the Clinton email scandal & mishandling of highly classified info [have] been sitting at an FBI offshoot office since 2018. I sent a letter [with] House Intel Chair Crawford asking [Director] Patel [to] review materials & report back ASAP,” Grassley wrote in a post on X.

According to a press release from the offices of Grassley and Crawford, the thumb drives are currently stored in a Northern Virginia satellite office tied to the FBI’s Washington Field Office.

The materials reportedly contain intelligence and other documents tied to the long-running Clinton email probe and related investigations.

The letter from Grassley and Crawford was prompted by new information linked to an appendix of the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General’s June 2018 report reviewing the DOJ and FBI’s handling of the original Clinton investigation.

The appendix, referred to as the “Clinton annex,” was recently declassified.

In the joint letter, the lawmakers expressed serious concern over the FBI’s handling of the case, citing what they described as a failure to perform basic investigative duties under former leadership.

“The revelations contained in the declassified OIG appendix are at the heart of why the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) became distrusted by so many under your agency’s prior directors: a failure to impartially conduct its law enforcement and intelligence mission,” the letter states.

“Concerning the issue at hand, Comey’s FBI shockingly failed to review and exploit evidence in its own possession, even though they admitted in written memos the information was necessary to conduct a ‘thorough and complete investigation.’The FBI also failed to review and exploit other foreign intelligence information.”

The letter specifically points outthat the unexamined materials reportedly include emails connected to former President Barack Obama and technical data related to classified government networks.

https://www.lifezette.com/2025/07/fbi-hid-evidence-tied-to-hillary-obama-in-va-office-since-2018-grassley-and-crawford-watch/?utm_source=revolver

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“Therefore, we now write to stress the importance that this material be immediately dug out from hiding and properly assessed,” Grassley and Crawford wrote.

“How evidence which purportedly includes information related to ‘former President Barack Obama’s emails’ and ‘network infrastructure diagrams for U.S. government classified networks,’ remained unreviewed by the preeminent law enforcement agency in the world is mind-numbing.”

Grassley and Crawford’s request underscores a broader call for transparency and accountability regarding past investigative decisions made during the Obama administration and the early years of the Trump administration.

Their letter urges current FBI Director Kash Patel to act swiftly and ensure the evidence is fully examined, regardless of political implications.

“We know you will not similarly ignore evidence in your agency’s possession, no matter where its exploitation or conclusions might lead,” the letter concluded.

https://www.lifezette.com/2025/07/fbi-hid-evidence-tied-to-hillary-obama-in-va-office-since-2018-grassley-and-crawford-watch/?utm_source=revolver