Oklahoma City bombing

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

radio DJ who first gained notoriety for defending the Branch Davidians after the Waco siege and who believed that the US government was behind the Oklahoma City bombing. Jones once pushed his theories on a public-access channel in Austin; on the internet, he could now vie for the attention of the entire

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Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism

by Jeffrey Toobin  · 1 May 2023  · 357pp  · 130,117 words

modern Republican Party, said, “And if you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants.” * * * Nineteen days after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Timothy McVeigh was summoned from his cell for his first meeting with his attorney, Stephen Jones. In that initial conversation, McVeigh was only

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know with certainty what McVeigh believed and why? He was probably the most thoroughly scrutinized criminal in American history. While the federal investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing was led by the FBI, it also included dozens of other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies. In all, the investigation produced 30

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. For such a complete record of a major criminal investigation to be available for examination is unprecedented in American history. * * * From the moment the Oklahoma City bombing took place, it was portrayed as the work of outsiders, of individuals who were sinister anomalies from American norms. In the first hours after the

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bombing conspiracies and mass shootings—amounts to one of the lesser told stories of the first Black president’s tenure in office. As with the Oklahoma City bombing, these acts of terror were not random lightning strikes by demented individuals; they were targeted political acts of right against left. The political response

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extremists, the right created almost a presumption that all terrorism originates with Muslims. (This has included an enduring, if futile, effort to tie the Oklahoma City bombing to Muslim operatives.) McVeigh understood the potential of his right-wing compatriots for joining him in violent action. “I believe there is an army out

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horrors have been largely forgotten.) In 1994, Clinton and Congress planned a response to these murders, and McVeigh was outraged. Most accounts of the Oklahoma City bombing describe McVeigh’s motivation as a straightforward act of revenge for the Waco siege. Waco may have been a disturbing news story for most Americans

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white mob in Tulsa conducted a pogrom and killed about three hundred Black residents of the city’s Greenwood neighborhood. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, the Tulsa race massacre was scarcely mentioned. * * * The initial efforts at the bomb site were led by Oklahoma City firefighters, who focused on extricating

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especially virulent in the early 1990s—in Gingrich’s sneering contempt and Limbaugh’s roiling bombast. So, too, Clinton speculated, in the origins of the Oklahoma City bombing. * * * In thinking about his initial public statement, Clinton believed that he needed first to express righteous fury against the perpetrators, whoever they might be.

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who had nothing to do with this…. There is absolutely no connection between these nuts and mainstream conservatism in America today.” Whether it was the Oklahoma City bombing, mass shootings, other violence by right-wing extremists, or the January 6, 2021, insurrection, Limbaugh, Gingrich, and their allies always responded the same way.

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Jamie said I had to come back to Washington and get my arms around this thing,” Garland said. The investigations of the Unabomber and the Oklahoma City bombing unfolded simultaneously, with implications for how each was perceived. From the start, the Unabomber was characterized—correctly—as a lone wolf. This impression was

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followers. Garland limited his description of McVeigh to the acts charged in the indictment; because McVeigh and Nichols were the only ones charged in the Oklahoma City bombing, that left the impression that McVeigh, like Kaczynski, also represented no one except himself. In fact, McVeigh belonged to a thriving and enduring political

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producing an enormous drain of resources. Eventually, the tips were also provided to the defense as possible exculpatory evidence. In all, the investigation of the Oklahoma City bombing was a case study in the fallibility of eyewitness identification. Baffled and frustrated by the failure to locate John Doe Number 2—a quest that

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government expense. In normal circumstances, the Justice Department and the courts impose limits on overall expenses. But Garland decided from the beginning of the Oklahoma City bombing investigation that he would give the defense essentially an unlimited budget. Garland didn’t want to risk a defense claim, perhaps years in the future

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trying to blame Oklahoma City on foreigners. In 2005, Dana Rohrabacher, a Republican congressman from California, issued a report from his Oversight Subcommittee called “The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There a Foreign Connection?” It stated, “There is serious, yet in some cases circumstantial, evidence that suggests a possible Middle Eastern connection to

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right-wing violence. As the months after McVeigh’s arrest passed, Jones became more outspoken about the purported secrets at the heart of the Oklahoma City bombing case. His theory evolved from suggesting that the government had failed to seek the truth about the bombing to insisting that the government was undertaking

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long after the McVeigh case was over, Jones and others used the “others unknown” language to suggest that the government had never really solved the Oklahoma City bombing case. Needlessly, the mystery—which was really no mystery at all—lingered. CHAPTER 21 Tigar, Burning Bright No one in Oklahoma had ever seen

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trial began, the inspector general of the Department of Justice released a report critical of the work of the FBI crime lab, including in the Oklahoma City bombing. Regarding the analysis of the bomb residue at the scene, the report stated that an FBI expert “repeatedly reached conclusions that incriminated the defendants

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Ohio; and John Trochmann, of Montana, all defended the basic concepts of militias—private armies organized to defend their freedom—but they denounced the Oklahoma City bombing and rejected the use of violence except in self-defense. After the Senate hearing, however, a new narrative from the extremist groups took hold—that

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of nearly three thousand dwarfed previous acts of terrorism in the United States. (Roughly eighteen times more people died on 9/11 than in the Oklahoma City bombing.) It became clear almost immediately that the attacks were orchestrated by Al Qaeda, a complex organization with enormous range and resources. The origins of

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2022, to determine whether Trump illegally removed classified and other documents from the White House. The period after January 6 paralleled the one after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. These two acts of extremist outrage, both widely condemned at the time, were followed not by soul-searching and restraint but rather

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“termination” of the Constitution, pledged support for the January 6 rioters, and dined with notorious white supremacists. In the nearly thirty years since the Oklahoma City bombing, the country took an extraordinary journey—from nearly universal horror at the action of a right-wing extremist to wide embrace of a former president

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malign intelligence, but I failed to understand, much less explain, his place in the broader slipstream of American history. Still, the story of the Oklahoma City bombing—especially the horror inflicted on so many innocent people—lodged securely, if remotely, in my consciousness. There it remained—until the fall of 2020. That

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brother James had close ties to the Michigan Militia, and they passed lessons from the group on to McVeigh. Even a quarter century after the Oklahoma City bombing, some of the same people were involved. For example, Mark Koernke, the University of Michigan janitor, inspired the Nichols brothers and defended the Whitmer

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Circuit upheld the government’s position and disallowed the deduction. * * * In the course of my research, I interviewed more than a hundred people. The Oklahoma City bombing was a major event in many lives, and after a quarter century, virtually everyone I contacted was willing to share their recollections. I am particularly

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Federal Power (New York: Basic Books, 2022), Chap. 1. The neighbors complained there, too: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 43–48. CHAPTER 2: KINDRED SPIRITS Those charged with more serious crimes: Konstantin Toropin and Steve Beynon, “Veterans Make

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appeared to be a quietly competent soldier: For background on McVeigh’s military service, see Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), Chaps. 3–4; Brandon M. Stickney, All-American Monster: The Unauthorized Biography of Timothy McVeigh (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books,

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Herbeck, American Terrorist, p. 75. CHAPTER 4: THE TIES FRAY McVeigh was in ragged shape: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 82–86. In the previous year: Robert D. McFadden, “A Life of Solitude and Obsession,” New York Times,

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: University of California, Davis School of Medicine, 2009), p. 6-1. Strassmeir told the author Ben Fenwick: Ben Fenwick, McVeigh: The Inside Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing (Norman, OK: Harbinger Associates, 2020), p. 85. CHAPTER 7: HILLARY CLINTON’S FACE Once the FBI identified the account: Jon Hersley, Larry Tongate, and

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Bob Burke, Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004), pp. 133–37. The peril of big government loomed larger: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist:

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Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 151–52. The Gulfport rumor had an element of truth: Geoff Pender, “End of a Long, Strange Trip

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, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2022), Chap. 6. Whenever Clinton appeared on the screen: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), p. 180. “I’ll never see my dad again!”: Lana Padilla with Ron Delpit, By Blood Betrayed: My Life with

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Paperbacks, 1995), pp. 10–11. In a Walmart plastic bag: Jon Hersley, Larry Tongate, and Bob Burke, Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004), pp. 183–85. CHAPTER 10: THE FINAL DAYS “I won’t need any”: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck

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, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 209–11. CHAPTER 11: THE BLOOD OF PATRIOTS AND TYRANTS Rick Wahl, a sergeant: Jon Hersley, Larry Tongate,

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and Bob Burke, Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004), pp. 221–22. “Maybe now, there will be Liberty!”: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy

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McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 226–28. CHAPTER 12: THE OKLAHOMA STANDARD known to her employees as Mother Goose: Florence Rogers and Princell D

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has ever seen.” their nephew Chad to a doctor’s appointment: Jon Hersley, Larry Tongate, and Bob Burke, Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004), pp. 21–22. CHAPTER 13: SO IS MINE Indeed, many state and local law enforcement officials: See,

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17: THE CASE AGAINST CLUTTER One of the more consequential tips: Jon Hersley, Larry Tongate, and Bob Burke, Simple Truths: The Real Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing Investigation (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Heritage Association, 2004), pp. 240–42. The sketch of Number 2: Hersley, Tongate, and Burke, Simple Truths, pp. 97–100.

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,” Washington Post, Oct. 22, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/10/22/jan-6-capitol-riot-facebook/. CHAPTER 19: THE BIGGEST “GET” “The Oklahoma City Bombing: Was There a Foreign Connection?”: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2005/04/19/house-section/article/H2143-1. A 2012 book called: Andrew Gumbel

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/2019/05/29/obituaries/richard-p-matsch-dead.html. “Was it unreasonable to think”: Stephen Jones and Peter Israel, Others Unknown: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing Conspiracy (New York: PublicAffairs, 2001), p. 169. CHAPTER 24: THE DEFENSE IMPLODES the work of J. D. Cash: See Darcy O’Brien, “Oklahoma Scoops,”

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Press and the Illusion of Prejudice” 29 Litigation 42 (Spring 2003). Ben Fenwick was a freelance writer: Ben Fenwick, McVeigh: The Inside Story of the Oklahoma City Bombing (Norman, OK: Harbinger Associates, 2020), Chap. 17. Reed died in 2006; Sparks died in 2018. “Jones dangled McVeigh”: Randall Coyne, “Collateral Damage in Defense

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. CHAPTER 26: THE CASE FOR THE JURY Oddly enough, McVeigh was also living it up: Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck, American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh & the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Regan Books, 2001), pp. 314, 327. CHAPTER 27: UNCONQUERABLE One courtroom observer compared: Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles, Oklahoma City: What

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The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018), pp. 231–32 and Chap. 9; Stuart A. Wright, Patriots, Politics, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 205–9; and Leonard Zeskind, Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins

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, 16 military haircut of, 34, 67, 136, 164, 169, 177, 231 Moore and, 67, 95, 96 Murrah Federal Building bombed by Nichols and, see Oklahoma City bombing; Oklahoma City bombing, McVeigh’s and Nichols’s planning and preparation for Nichols as ideological tutor to, 35–36, 57–58 Nichols family farm stays of, 57, 74

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of, 105–6, 108, 113, 115–16, 117, 119, 120, 122, 129, 131, 246, 277 Mulvaney, Mick, 366 Murrah Federal Building, bombing of, see Oklahoma City bombing Myers, Errol, 260 Napolitano, Janet, 358 National Alliance, 24, 127 National Crime Information Center (NCIC), 170–71 National Insurance Crime Bureau, 157 National Rifle Association

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120, 126, 129, 140 storage sheds rented for, 104, 108, 112, 122, 126, 129 The Turner Diaries as model for, 101–2, 104, 108, 109 “Oklahoma City Bombing, The” (House Oversight Committee report), 240, 355 Oklahoma City National Memorial, 375 Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 161–62, 171 Oklahoma militia, 352 Olson, Norman, 353 Operation

Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2011

by Steve Coll  · 23 Feb 2004  · 956pp  · 288,981 words

trend. For the first two years of the Clinton presidency, budgeting and policy making about terrorism had been dispersed and confused. The shock of the Oklahoma City bombing in the spring of 1995 created a new sense of urgency at the National Security Council, however. The bombers turned out to be a domestic

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, and to position himself as a player on the rising questions of the day. By 1997 he gravitated toward counterterrorism. In the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the downing of TWA Flight 800 (mistakenly believed at first to be a terrorist incident), the White House requested and Congress wrote enormous new

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life

by Richard Beck  · 2 Sep 2024  · 715pp  · 212,449 words

girl to safety with the caption, “Horror at home.” But the photograph wasn’t taken on September 11—it was from the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.[64] It wasn’t as though Newsweek lacked for actual photographs of September 11 to choose from, but contemporary images didn’t tell

The America That Reagan Built

by J. David Woodard  · 15 Mar 2006

nation watched as the bodies of men, women, and children were pulled from the rubble. Speculation on the cause of the explosion Consequences of the Oklahoma City bombing. (# Les Stone/Sygma/Corbis) The Postmodern Nineties 177 was lost in a rush to get the wounded out. Alan Prokop was one of the first

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of anonymity, the ‘‘Unabomber’’ was exposed The Postmodern Nineties 179 by his younger brother. Some thought the family unfaithfulness was rooted in the terror the Oklahoma City bombing brought to light. Within five days of the deadly Oklahoma blast, the Unabomber sent another package in the mail to the president of a California

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scraping the labels off batteries to erase their serial numbers. The Unabomber fashioned macabre signatures for his handiwork.49 In 1995, the year of the Oklahoma City bombing, Kaczynski mailed several letters, some to his former victims, demanding that a treatise he had written be published. He threatened to kill more people if

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for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was sentenced to the Federal ADX Supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. The Oklahoma City bombing and the Unabomber introduced Americans to the home-grown domestic terrorist, but sadly the nation would get a more dramatic lesson on the subject of

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Triangulation 185 words of an old Western adage: ‘‘He gave his opponents just enough rope for them to hang themselves.’’ Clinton’s comments after the Oklahoma City bombing were characteristic of his new approach. In a moment of national grief, he sympathized with the victims and at the same time pointed an accusing

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enough power to blow up the two floors of the school building. The whole ambush was oddly reminiscent. It was April, the month of the Oklahoma City bombing, which itself recalled the Waco tragedy. Each shooter returned to his car to await the explosion so they could proceed with their plan, but the

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. Donaldson, 50 O’Grady, Scott, Air Force Captain, 190 oil: imports, 1, 9; Middle East, 124–26; shortage, 4 Oil-for-Food program, 225–26 Oklahoma City bombing, 176–77 Olympic Games, 85 Omar, Mullah Mohammad, 223 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, 151 OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 2 Operation Iraqi

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scale; a magnitude of 3 corresponds to about 1,000 pounds (or about 500 kg) of TNT, which was roughly the size of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing; 5.7 corresponds to about 5,000 tons, 6.7 to about 170,000 tons (the Northridge and Fukushima earthquakes), 7.7 to about 5

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, Stephen M. 1984. The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Michel, Lou, and Dan Herbeck. 2001. American Terrorist: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing. New York: ReganBooks. Milhollin, Gary. 2002. “Can Terrorists Get the Bomb?” Commentary February: 45–49. Milward, Alan S. 1977. War, Economy and Society, 1939–1945

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. Berkeley: University of California Press. Mlakar, Paul F. Sr., W. Gene Corley, Mete A. Sozen, and Charles H. Thornton. 1998. “The Oklahoma City Bombing: Analysis of Blast Damage to the Murrah Building.” Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities 12(3) August: 113–19. Morgan, Patrick. 1977. Deterrence: A Conceptual

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the propaganda going, and the United States has been either authorizing, or actually conducting false flag terrorist events against their citizens since at least the Oklahoma City bombing, and more than likely before that. A society that is built on a foundation of lies and self-directed terrorist attacks by their own government

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threat nuclear weapons Nunberg, Geoffrey Nunn, Sam Nuremberg Trials nursery rhymes Nurture Assumption Nussbaum, Martha Oatley, Keith Obama, Barack obedience; see also Milgram, Stanley Odysseus Oklahoma City bombing Olds, James Oneal, John One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film) openness to experience Operation Ceasefire Opium Wars Oppenheimer, Robert opponent-process theory of

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Weapons Act, which made it illegal for any American to possess, trade, sell, or manufacture a biological substance “for use as a weapon.” After the Oklahoma City bombing, Congress passed the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996, which allowed federal authorities to arrest anyone who even “threatens” to develop or use biological weapons. And

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