Reply #38: seems to me that Vidal offered a conspiracy theory on that

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In "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace" Gore Vidal suggests that McVeigh was working for the ATF or some such agency and that the purpose of the attack was to strengthen the ATF and expand their powers.
What I remember from the time is wondering how they knew it was McVeigh. I did not get the details on how they happened to capture the person they did. At the time I did not have TV so I did not get to see if the media tried to make it into "the day that changed America". Clinton did use it to attack "hate radio" and used some of the people in SOTU 1996. Was that part of the reason that he cruised to re-election after he/we got shelled in 1994?