I don't think so, but it looks like a new right wing myth is in the process of being born and if so, we will all be the worse for it. This is from Salon via the Washington Post. Salon's a pay site, so I only have access to the excerpts below. _________________________________ "Whatever you do, don't call Jayna Davis the darling of the right wing. A former Oklahoma City television reporter, Davis for the last seven years has been amassing a 2,000-page dossier which, she says, shows that a Middle Eastern terrorist cell made up of former Iraqi soldiers helped Timothy McVeigh plot the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. "As an investigative reporter for local NBC affiliate KFOR-TV, Davis first started hammering away at the story of an Iraq-McVeigh connection right after the deadly terrorist blast killed 168. Few people paid attention. Now, with a war against Iraq pending, Davis' conspiracy theory has suddenly gained new currency inside the Beltway, and all sorts of doors are opening being opened for her. Even though some intelligence pros, like Vince Cannistraro, the CIA's former chief of counter-terrorism, label Davis' dossier 'total [excrement],' some conservatives in Congress and in the media are hyping a possible connection between Baghdad and the Oklahoma City massacre. . . . "Her theory has been embraced by Fox News celebrity Bill O'Reilly and by the wild Clinton-haters at Free Republic. She's recently been toasted in the far-right editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal and Washington Times as a 'brave' and 'intrepid' reporter. And defense hawks like former CIA detector James Woolsey, and former Reagan Defense Department official Frank Gaffney--always on the hunt for additional reasons to invade Iraq – have been singing Davis' praise." But former USA Today reporter Tom Potok says: "I just think it's folly. The Oklahoma City case attracted every conspiracy theorist on the planet, including some second-rate reporters who believe they've stripped the cover off the conspiracy of the 20th century. Nothing against Jayna Davis, but she's gotten an idea in her head that's not based on real evidence.'"
Don't you love it when people start with the conclusion and work backwards? Naturally, the far right band wagoners jump on board when they hear the conclusion, regardless of the actual evidence. And the beat goes on ...
