Utah Attorney Jesse Trentadue has spent 30 years litigating against the federal government, trying to uncover documents related to his brother’s likely murder by federal authorities on August 21, 1995.
Trentadue believes federal agents believed his brother was a federal agent who was involved in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995, and tortured him to death for information, wrongly believing he was “John Doe #2.” Kenneth Trentadue was a match for the description of the suspect, the same height, weight, build, and even the same dragon tattoo on his left forearm. Trentadue says it’s his belief that the motive behind his brother’s murder was that “The FBI was desperate to eliminate anyone who might link the Bureau to a failed sting operation that resulted in the Oklahoma City Bombing.”
A recent book by investigative journalist Margaret Roberts, “Blowback,” provides a lot of corroboration to the document effort that Trentadue has been engaged in for a generation. Trentadue claims he has litigated the release of 2 million pages of documents. He is currently suing to release an additional 67,000 pages linking the FBI’s undercover operatives to the failed sting operation that, he says, led to the Oklahoma City bombing.
He has not found the names of his brother’s killers, but he has committed himself to uncovering the illegal operations the government has used for over 30 years to entrap and oppress Americans, a program known as “PATCON.”
Exclusively with the Gateway Pundit, Trentadue has also started sharing key files that dramatically challenge the official and mainstream view as to the bombing of the Murrah federal building in April 1995.
Trentadue points out that the Department of Justice spent over $80 million prosecuting Timothy McVeigh for the bombing, but notably did not admit any of the known video evidence of the bombing.
The reason, Trentadue claims, is that multiple independent video evidence reveals the presence of a second bomber exiting the bomb truck prior to the explosion.
Roberts claims in her book, as well, that there may have been a third conspirator with the bombers on-site, and that likely accounts for the mystery of the unidentified severed leg found among the explosion, which has never been positively identified. The idea that there was a lone-wolf attack is wrong, she claims, and instead, there was a team involved in the planning and execution of the bombing.
For proof of this explosive claim, Trentadue provides evidence he has uncovered from the FBI’s own files indicating that they seized video surveillance footage of the Oklahoma City bombing.
The locations of at least one camera that captured the bombing were the 24-story Regency Tower Apartments or “RTA.” The Regency had a direct view to the bombing.
Regency Towers’ direct line of sight to the Murrah Building facade that was bombed. The camera placement (as described in Sgt. Willis’ notes) that faced NW 5th Street — the truck’s final position.
In documents provided to the Gateway Pundit, Trentadue notes that the FBI Agents recorded capturing the security camera footage and described it in detail, which contrasts with their later statements, including in sworn statements in federal court, that no such footage exists.
Several documents relate to footage recovered from the Regency Towers, such as the FBI document below.
The FBI records show that agents presented still images from the RTA footage they recovered to a witness in the case, Wesley Bogie, who was a security guard, and described the images from the video as showing the arrival of the Ryder Truck, and that there were two individuals near the vehicle. Bogie died this past January.
The FBI had previously told the federal court, through the Chief of the Records Division that there was no video evidence of the Oklahoma City bombing. The FBI hedged in its answers to the court, to say that it’s possible the video evidence was ‘misfiled’ and therefore, impossible to uncover.
Trentadue tells the Gateway Pundit, “The only explanation for the FBI ‘losing’ that videotape is because the second person in the truck was one of the Bureau’s PATCON undercover operatives.”
Trentadue sued the Central Intelligence Agency and FBI in 2008 in the Central District of Utah, case number, 2:08-cv-00788, in order to obtain evidence and documents related to the 1995 bombing. The 2008 suit related to FOIA requests Trentadue made in 2006.
The case is still ongoing, 17 years later. For the past 11 years, the Court had to appoint a “Special Master” to review the evidence held by the government, after the FBI was caught intimidating witnesses not to cooperate with Trentadue’s requests for depositions.
That review is incredibly still ongoing. Lawyers familiar with the case say that it appears the federal authorities are simply waiting to see if Trentadue will give up, but Trentadue says he has no intention of stopping or letting federal agents get away with the murder of his brother.
In the course of litigation, the federal government, through its attorneys at the Department of Justice, at one point tried to argue to the court that the DOJ and FBI had the authority to lie and deceive the court, in order to give false answers to direct questions in order to protect national security interests.
Federal Judge Clark Waddoups, a George W. Bush appointee, was less than amused with the government’s position that it was authorized to lie to the court.
Here is Judge Waddoups’ admonition to the FBI and DOJ not to lie, deceive, or make misrepresentations in the course of the litigating the case, a remarkable court order. Judge Waddoups specifically instructed FBI Section Chief David M. Hardy not to lie.
Ken Silva at HeadlineUSA, notes that in other cases, as noted by Senator Grassley, that the FBI has been known to ‘hide’ controversial or compromising files by purposefully misfiling them or filing them under “Prohibited Access” status so that they don’t appear in the Bureau’s record-keeping system and indexing systems.
Trentadue wonders what possible ‘national security’ interests could be implicated in 2025 considering that Timothy McVeigh was executed on June 11, 2001, and Terry Nichols was sentenced to 161 consecutive life sentences in prison in 1997.
Trentadue points out that the seized tapes should have been the federal government’s primary exhibit at the trials of McVeigh and Nichols, but weren’t, telling the Gateway Pundit, “That tape should have been Exhibit 1 at McVeigh’s trial, but it wasn’t because the tape showed someone else in the bomb-truck with McVeigh who was, in all likelihood, an FBI informant. Incredible.”
Trentadue says that in his document litigation over decades with the FBI, he has discovered documentary support, and is convinced that there are multiple different angles of the Murrah Building minutes prior and at the point of the bombing in April 1995 that have never been released to the public or shown in court.
Trentadue wrote a letter to Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi in March 2025 asking her to finally stop the pointless litigation opposing his requests, a letter that was ignored.
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