Trial Begins In Case Over Oklahoma City Bombing

SALT LAKE CITY — The FBI has done a thorough search of its archives and found no evidence that more Oklahoma City bombing videos exist, federal attorneys told a judge on Monday during the first day of a trial that has rekindled long-dormant questions about whether others were involved in the devastating 1995 attack. Additional searches for videos that Salt Lake City lawyer Jesse Trentadue believes are being withheld would be burdensome and fruitless, FBI attorney Kathryn Wyer said. The agency has already provided videos and paper documents that correspond with Trentadue’s Freedom of Information Act request, she said. “The plaintiff has refused to accept that the 30 tapes he got are the only tapes,” Wyer said during opening statements in the bench trial in a Salt Lake City federal courtroom. The trial was triggered by a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Trentadue filed in 2008.