Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah. The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit. The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who believes his brother's death in a federal prison was linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act, alleges that authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand. * * * I question the credibility of Mr. Nichols, you know, being a convicted murder of 161 people and all, but I didn't know about the death of Mr. Trentadue's brother. That aspect of this case intrigues me. I've been researching this a little bit and found that John Doe #2 and Kenneth Trentadue's appearances were similar, including the tattoos on their forearms. Autopsy photos and commentary are available here. Sure doesn't look like a suicide to me. At the time, the House Judiciary Committee assigned a homicide investigator to the case. That detective's opinion is quoted as saying Trentadue "was clearly murdered." The death scene was sanitized a few hours after he allegedly hung himself, and the Oklahoma State Medical Examiner staff was denied access. A true crime scene investigation was never carried out. Will be interesting to see where this goes or if anyone near this happens to die soon. Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help | 
