30 Years After The OKC Bombing: Case Closed Or Federal Cover-Up?

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🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

What if everything Americans knew about the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was wrong? On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Margaret Roberts, an award-winning journalist and former news director of America's Most Wanted, joins Federalist Senior Elections Correspondent Matt Kittle to explain how the FBI not only failed to prevent the OKC attack, but also covered up key evidence suggesting suspect Timothy McVeigh did not act alone.

You can find Roberts' book Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing here.

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0:00.0	And we are back with another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour.
0:20.9	I'm Matt Kittle's senior elections correspondent at The Federalist and your experience
0:25.8	Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.
0:29.0	As always, you can email the show at Radio at the Federalist.com.
0:33.7	Follow us on X at FDRLST.
0:36.9	Make sure to subscribe wherever you download your podcast and, of course, to the premium version of our website as well.
0:43.5	Our guest today is Margaret Roberts, award-winning journalist, former news director of America's Most Wanted,
0:50.7	and author of the compelling new book, Blowback, The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma
0:58.2	City bombing. Hard to believe it has been 30 plus years since that awful event. Margaret,
1:05.2	thank you so much for joining us on the Federalist Radio Hour.
1:08.4	Great to be with you, Matt.
1:10.2	This is a topic, of course, that engrossed our attention for so long, and I think it still
1:17.1	does today.
1:17.9	I think it still resonates 30 years after.
1:22.3	You ask, and I want to start here, you ask a very, very important question, a very compelling question once again.
1:31.1	What if everything we know about one of America's darkest days is wrong? And I think that is
1:38.8	ultimately the premise of your book. Is it not? It is, Matt, absolutely. And it, I think it does resonate for what is
1:48.9	going on today. We just have an almost a sense of vertigo about, you know, some of these
1:57.1	stories that we thought we understood because of what our news media told us,
2:03.8	but they turn out to be very different.
2:07.7	Absolutely.
2:08.5	And, you know, we're seeing that the reporting as we speak today all of this week has been
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