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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E360. What the FBI Doesn’t Want You to See - Margaret Roberts

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 16 October 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

Journalist Margaret Roberts joins Bridget to discuss the book she spent 20 years researching and writing, Blowback: The Untold Story of the FBI and the Oklahoma City Bombing. She describes her journey down a path of unanswered questions and loose ends that lead to questioning the "lone wolf" narrative of the case, the extent of the FBI's involvement, when surveillance crosses the line and goes rogue, the holes in the official story, and why some questions might never be answered about America...

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All right. I am with Margaret Roberts, everyone. Welcome to Walkins. Welcome. It's so good to have you. You are the author of Blowback, the untold story of the FBI in Oklahoma City bombing. And I wanted to just get right into it because before we even started recording, you said there was so much going on that even extended this book and there's so much interest in it. So just give us a very

0:22.7

brief overview of what you cover in the book and then I want to know why what's going on that

0:29.6

extends it. This book is crazy, everyone, for everyone listening. You bet, Bridget, and great to be

0:34.9

with you. The Oklahoma City bombing, of course, was and is America's deadliest domestic terror attack.

0:45.2

April 19, 1995, the middle of the week, the middle of the country, a perfectly ordinary day,

0:52.8

people starting their work day, and suddenly out of nowhere,

0:58.0

the front of a nine-story office building was blown off by an explosion, and it changed America forever.

1:09.0

That's the centerpiece of the investigation that has enveloped a lot of my life,

1:18.6

believe it or not, for 20 years.

1:21.6

And it's a mystery to this day, And there's a mystery inside the mystery,

1:30.4

which is the murder of a prisoner,

1:32.8

which kind of unravels in this story

1:37.2

and gets connected to the bombing

1:39.6

and the secrets of the bombing.

1:41.2

So in a nutshell, I have been on a quest for the truth about the Oklahoma

1:47.2

City bombing for about 20 years now.

1:52.8

How did you become obsessed with this?

1:55.7

Well, like millions of Americans, Bridget, I was just transfixed by watching this on television.

2:06.6

I was in Los Angeles.

2:08.6

I am a television producer as well as a print journalist.

2:15.6

And I witnessed this the way America witnessed it on television,

2:22.1

one of the first live disasters to be covered.

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