“MICHAEL RICONOSCIUTO “Oklahoma City” was Destroyed by a Barometric Bomb
Michael Riconosciuto’s claims that the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building was destroyed not by a truck bomb, but by a pineapple-sized “barometric bomb”.
Many suspect a barometric bomb was used in Lebanon.
Interview by Ted Gunderson
Michael Riconosciuto is an electronics and computer expert who was arrested in early 1991, shortly after providing Inslaw, Inc. with an affidavit in support of their lawsuit against the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
“As long as justice is postponed we always stand on the verge of these darker nights of social disruption”…so said Martin Luther King Jr. in a speech on March 14, 1968, just three weeks before he was assassinated.
Riconosciuto professed a defense centered on the Inslaw Affair (a legal case in which the U.S. Government was charged with illegal use of computer software). Riconosciuto claimed to have reprogrammed Inslaw’s case-management program (Promis) with a secret “back-door” to allow clandestine tracking of individuals. Riconosciuto stated that he had been threatened with prosecution by a justice department official. Riconosciuto provided an Affidavit detailing threats to a House Select Committee investigating the Inslaw Affair.
In his investigation of the allegations surrounding the Inslaw case, Special Counsel Nicholas J. Bua was particularly critical of several of Inslaw’s witnesses. He found that Riconosciuto had given inconsistent accounts in statements to the Hamiltons, his affidavit, and in testimony at his 1992 trial for manufacturing methamphetamine. Bua compared Riconosciuto’s story about Promis to “a historical novel; a tale of total fiction woven against the background of accurate historical facts.”
2009 – PROMISes, PROMISes: Please BeLIEve Me
Take a long slow slide down the labyrinthine rabbithole of CIA wizard / “political prisoner,” Michael J. Riconosciuto
