Missing Documents In McVeigh Case

If Louis Freeh didn’t know about the “missing documents” in the Timothy McVeigh case (May 12), he should be dismissed for incompetence. If he did know, then he should be relieved of his duties and dismissed or leave of his own accord--but then again, he’s done that, hasn’t he? And despite the efforts to spin it otherwise, it is the height of disingenuousness to expect that the public would believe that Freeh’s sudden decision to leave the FBI with two years of his assignment remaining was based solely on personal matters.

Stuart Bernstein

Santa Monica

If even the FBI cannot handle evidence reliably in the highest-profile national case imaginable, then the justice system in this country, from top to bottom, demonstrably lacks integrity. Although far from being the strongest argument against state execution in principle, the statement you quoted by the former U.S. attorney in Oklahoma City, Pat Ryan, is a sufficient argument against the death penalty in practice: “People make mistakes.”

For practicing the death penalty, the United States and China both deserve to be permanently barred from the U.N. Human Rights Commission.

Thomas Milo Somers

Loma Linda

Maybe after all the foul-ups they should change the meaning of the acronym: Fumble Bumble and Incompetent.

Peter Isaacson

Hacienda Heights