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The Blaze raised eyebrows this week by publishing an article suggesting there is more to know about the Oklahoma City bombing than the long-held conclusion that anti-government extremists Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols carried out the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in the U.S. on their own.

The article was published on Thursday under an “opinion and analysis” label and is titled, “New evidence could blow open the Oklahoma City bombing case.” The title is structured to generate clicks and runs with an equally splashy subhead that reads, “The Justice Department must act. Release the tapes. Let the American people decide for themselves what really happened the morning of April 19, 1995.”

The article raised the ire of several commentators online, including conservative radio host Erick Erickson who shared its headline and wrote, “This is really gross John Birch Society level nonsense that has no place in the conservative movement.”

The piece is written by Margaret Roberts, an independent journalist, who summed it up on X as highlighting “Jesse Trentadue’s FOIA campaign for the release of the

surveillance videotapes of the bombing –and his call for the unsealing of whistleblower John Matthews’s deposition on the the FBI’s PATCON spy program.” Roberts argues that a “cover-up” has taken place to erase a potential third actor in the bombing, known as “John Doe 2,” who she describes as “a man 24 eyewitnesses claimed to have seen in the Ryder truck with Timothy McVeigh.”

Roberts goes on to claim that there is video footage of the bombing that is being kept hidden from the public and may expose other actors and possibly link the bombing or its “cover-up” to undercover operatives the FBI placed in extremist groups during the time.

She also writes that the contents of the Mathew’s deposition “could expose the true scope of PATCON — the FBI’s sweeping 1990s operation to infiltrate alleged right-wing extremist groups — and potentially tie it directly to the Oklahoma City bombing.” She goes on to call the issue a “test of whether the Trump administration will honor its promises of transparency” – akin to many other conspiracy theorists who argue the Trump admin isn’t doing enough on topics like the Epstein files.

She concludes by writing, “the videos could show that 168 Americans were murdered not just by a madman but by a preventable failure of federal surveillance — or worse, by a deliberate cover-up. This cover story has allowed neo-Nazi terrorists to slip through the cracks, denied justice to

the victims, and kept the American public in the dark for far too long.”

Below are some additional reactions to the article:

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