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   OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Salt Lake City attorney is arguing in a   
   lawsuit that the FBI has video of the Oklahoma City bombing that   
   shows a second person was involved.   
      
   The case is at the heart of Jesse Trentadue's quest to explain   
   his brother's mysterious jail cell death 19 years ago, which has   
   rekindled long-dormant questions about whether others were   
   involved in the deadly 1995 blast.   
      
   What some consider a far-flung conspiracy theory is at the   
   forefront of his Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the   
   FBI that goes to trial Monday.   
      
   Trentadue says the agency won't release security camera videos   
   that show a second person was with Timothy McVeigh when he   
   parked a truck outside the Oklahoma City federal building and   
   detonated a bomb, killing 168 people. The government claims   
   McVeigh was alone.   
      
   Unsatisfied by the FBI's previous explanations, U.S. District   
   Judge Clark Waddoups has ordered the agency to explain why it   
   can't find videos from the bombing that are mentioned in   
   evidence logs, citing the public importance of the tapes.   
      
   Trentadue believes the presence of a second suspect in the truck   
   explains why his brother, Kenneth Trentadue, was flown to   
   Oklahoma several months after the bombing, where he died in a   
   federal holding cell in what was labeled a suicide. His brother   
   bore a striking resemblance to the police sketch that officials   
   sent out after the bombing based on witness descriptions of the   
   enigmatic suspect "John Doe No. 2," who was the same height,   
   build and complexion. The suspect was never identified.   
      
   "I did not start out to solve the Oklahoma City bombing, I   
   started out for justice for my brother's murder," Jesse   
   Trentadue said. "But along the way, every path I took, every   
   lead I got, took me to the bombing."   
      
   The FBI says it can't find anything to suggest the videos exist,   
   and says it would be "unreasonably burdensome" to do a search   
   that would take a single staff person more than 18 months to   
   conduct.   
      
   Jesse Trentadue's belief that the tapes exists stems from a   
   Secret Service document written shortly after the bombing that   
   describes security video footage of the attack that shows   
   suspects - in plural - exiting the truck three minutes before it   
   went off.   
      
   A Secret Service agent testified in 2004 that the log does, in   
   fact, exist but that the government knows of no videotape. The   
   log that the information was pulled from contained reports that   
   were never verified, said Stacy A. Bauerschmidt, then-assistant   
   to the special agent in charge of the agency's intelligence   
   division.   
      
   Several investigators and prosecutors who worked the case told   
   The Associated Press in 2004 they had never seen video footage   
   like that described in the Secret Service log.   
      
   The FBI has released 30 video recordings to Trentadue from   
   downtown Oklahoma City, but those recordings don't show the   
   explosion or McVeigh's arrival in a rental truck.   
      
   If he wins at trial, Trentadue hopes to be able to search for   
   the tapes himself rather than having to accept the FBI's answer   
   that they don't exist.   
      
   Kathy Sanders and Jannie Coverdale, who both lost grandchildren   
   in the bombing, are grateful for Trentadue's pursuit of the   
   case. Sanders said she's been waiting 19 years to see the tapes.   
      
   "It is worth pursuing," Coverdale said. "I know there was   
   somebody else. I have never stopped asking questions."   
      
   But former Oklahoma Rep. Susan Winchester, whose sister, Dr.   
   Margaret "Peggy" Clark, was killed in the bombing, said she is   
   satisfied that officials have identified everyone responsible   
   for the bombing.   
      
   "I was very comfortable with the decisions that came out of the   
   federal and state trials," Winchester said. "I have reached that   
   point in my life where I can continue."   
      
   Jesse Trentadue's mission began four months after the bombing   
   when his brother died at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons' Federal   
   Transfer Center in Oklahoma City. Kenneth Trentadue, 44, a   
   convicted bank robber and construction worker, was brought there   
   after being picked up for probation violations while coming back   
   to the U.S. at the Mexican border, Jesse Trentadue said.   
      
   His death was officially labeled a suicide. But his body had 41   
   wounds and bruises that his brother believes were the result of   
   a beating. In 2008, a federal judge awarded the family $1.1   
   million in damages for extreme emotional distress in the   
   government's handling of the death, but the amount was reduced   
   to $900,000 after an appeal.   
      
   Jesse Trentadue's best guess about the motive is that his   
   brother died in an interrogation gone wrong by investigators   
   demanding information Kenneth Trentadue didn't have.   
      
   http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/28/oklahoma-   
   city-bombing-mcveigh/13267679/   
      
       
      
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