by Eugene H. Methvin

About the author: Eugene H. Methvin is a senior editor at Reader's Digest.

In February 1995, a former leader of the Michigan Militia, Eric Maloney, visited the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and warned that Timothy McVeigh and the Nichols brothers had attended a “special operations session” three months earlier where they talked about blowing up buildings. Maloney told Brian Ross, an ABC News investigative correspondent, that the FBI turned a deaf ear. “I told them that if they didn’t act on this, a whole lot of people are going to get killed,” Maloney said. But the FBI was not interested because “there was nothing they felt they could do.”

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