The OKC Bombing thread: Surveillance Camera Footage

[Richard Booth]

Another version of the Coulson lie: John O'Neill is the guy to which every virtue can be attributed, because he's the hard-charging dead hero whose records are never released, on the grounds of sparing him and the Bureau embarrassment.

Coulson's lie was 1998 though -- before O'Neill died and became this 'truther martyr' type. So I think there is more to it. I think that Coulson had to have asked John O'Neill "hey, can I say this about you in my book?" and that the two probably knew each other, and O'Neill let him use his name in order to cover up PATCON or VAAPCON.

Coulson may have known John from the Baltimore office and he certainly would have known him if O'Neill was assigned to VAAPCON, Coulson would have read his reports or reviewed VAAPCON material as chair of the undercover review committee.

I think it was a friend helping a friend hide something that both had a hand in.