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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 2002

The Department of Justice's Inspector General on Tuesday released his report on the failure of the FBI to provide more than 4,000 pages of documents regarding executive Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

The report criticizes the agency, and field offices in particular, for human errors and an antiquated legacy computer system used to manage case documents. But the report says there was no intent to deny the documents and said McVeigh's case was not affected although his execution was delayed to determine the impact.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow to discuss the report.

Get the Story:
Report Cites Human Error In McVeigh Files Mix-Up (The Washington Post 3/20)
Justice: FBI knew early of McVeigh files problem (The Denver Post 3/20)
FBI agent criticized for silence on error (The Daily Oklahoman 3/19)

Get the Report:
An Investigation of the Belated Production of Documents in the Oklahoma City Bombing Case (3/19) | FBI Statement (3/19) | AG John Ashcroft (3/19) | Field Agent (3/19)

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