A California congressman said Thursday a House subcommittee will investigate whether there was a foreign connection to the 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the International Relations Committee, said his committee's investigation will focus on whether those responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing had help from a foreign source.
"We need to answer some very serious questions in order to have confidence that the truth of this monstrous crime is fully known," Rohrabacher, who has conducted an extensive personal inquiry into the bombing, said in a statement.
Plans for the hearing, likely to be held in September, were first reported by the McCurtain Daily Gazette.
Timothy McVeigh was put to death in 2001 for the April 19, 1995, bombing that killed 168 people and injured more than 800 others. His co-defendant, Terry Nichols, is serving state and federal life prison sentences.
Rohrabacher met with Nichols for about two hours last year at a federal prison in Colorado where Nichols admitted helping McVeigh but did not identify anyone else, Rohrabacher said. He said at the time Nichols' statements did not warrant a congressional hearing.
Theories have persisted that other suspects not officially identified, including a group of white supremacist bank robbers with ties to Elohim City, may have played a role in the bombing.
A judge in Nichols' 2004 state murder trial ruled there was no substance to defense allegations that McVeigh had links to the bank robbers or other unidentified suspects.
