they overlooked a number of things about cockburn. even the fact that his own local had said that you have always been afraid that his uncle had said that he was afraid of him being a bomber and he was fully capable of creating a bomb. he said on the day of the bombing, he looked to the tv and claim some kind of ownership for. he talked about bombing the transport before the bombing. coming back to napolitano, i'm not sure that was her decision. again, it was from the documentation. woman by the name of donna goodfellow. she was the one who signed off on that decision. i don't know what the mechanics of that were, most likely come in the decision came from very high up in washington. and also for the reasons i love related earlier. they made the decision to get the stuff on that day. i also know that people within the fbi made assessments on this. i'm not sure if that is correct. my suspicion is he should've been looked at closely. i'm not aware of janet napolitano directly closing down any lines of investigation herself. which is not

one man in particular by the name of steve cockburn who was a chemist. he had worked at cedar sinai hospital in beverly hills in california. very bright, very unstable. he knew how to build explosives. and the government was after him for a number of things, including suspension -- suspicion that he possessed an m-60 machine gun which she was caught with on video in california and there was an arrest warrant put out for him in the summer of '94. he ended up disappearing into the desert in arizona. it appears he knew mcveigh. the fbi in the course of their investigation established that the two had exchanged letters. a decision was made in may of 1995 that there were going to overlook everything about him except what he could tell them about mcveigh to corroborate the fact that they had been in touch with mcveigh, try to recruit him because it helped establish mcveigh's motivation for the bombing. they overlooked a number of things. his bomb making ability. the fact that his own uncle had said how he had always been afraid that steve would turn into a mad