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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

2/8/24 Richard Booth and Ken Silva on the Ongoing Effort to Find the Truth about the OKC Bombing

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Scott is joined by Richard Booth and Ken Silva to discuss the Oklahoma City Bombing. Specifically, they talk about Jesse Trentadue’s effort to use the Freedom of Information Act to declassify FBI documents about people with links to the bombing. In this discussion, the three review who Jesse Trentadue is and his link to the case, the CIA asset who funded the bombing, the battle over security tapes of the Ryder truck and more. Discussed on the show: “Attorney Sues FBI for Records about CIA Asset Who Funded OKC Bombing” (HeadlineUSA) Oklahoma City: What the Investigation Missed--and Why It Still Matters by Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles  In Bad Company: America's Terrorist Underground by Mark Hamm  Oklahoma City Bombing Archive Aberration in the Heartland of the Real: The Secret Lives of Timothy McVeigh by Wendy S. Painting Richard Booth is the Glenn D. Wilburn Fellow at the Libertarian Institute and an independent citizen journalist and member of the Constitution First Amendment Press Association (CFAPA). You can find Richard’s journalism at The Libertarian Institute, and on his Substack. Follow him on Twitter @booth_okc Ken Silva has been a reporter for more than 10 years, working in places such as the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, and the United States. Follow him on Twitter @JD_Cashless This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Moon Does Artisan Coffee; Roberts and Robers Brokerage Incorporated; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; Libertas Bella; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.

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I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,

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editorial director of anti-war.com.

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Author of the book, Pools Arren,

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time to end the war in Afghanistan,

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and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on

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terrorism and I've recorded more than 5,500 interviews since 2003 almost all on

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foreign policy and all available for you at

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Scott Horton.org you can sign up the podcast feed there and the full

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interview archive is also available at YouTube.. Scott Horton's show.

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All right, you guys, on the line,

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I've got Richard Booth.

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He is our Glen Wilburn Fellow at the Libertarian Institute and the keeper of our

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Oklahoma City bombing archive at Libertarian Institute.org slash OKC and also

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Ken Silva investigative reporter from headline USA.

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He also writes for us at the Institute from time to time as well.

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Welcome both of you to the show. How are you doing?

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I'm good. Thanks for having me, Scott.

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Doing really well. Thanks for having me, too.

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Okay, good. Happy to have you here.

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Big news. I mean mean first thing that happened, I think if I remember right, was I got an email from Jesse Trinity today full of a bunch of PDF files. Windows tells me I already had two of them, but otherwise... PDF Somebody addressed a tweet to me on the lines of, hey, heads up, check it out here.

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