Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
The Lawfare Podcast
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The Importance of Prosecuting the Case
In parts, you say that Merrion Garland is largely responsible for one of the themes of the book. And I just don't see that he just seems to be of all the people and all the institutions that should have been emphasizing these broader trends and these going on in the country. It seems like the last institution that should do that or the people prosecuting the case. The Nichols trial was a much tougher case for the government. Terry Nichols was not there. He was acquitted of the bombing itself, although he was convicted of the conspiracy to commit the bombing.
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