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It was April 19, 1995 when a disastrous event occurred, injuring over 680 people and taking the lives of 168 people, totaling to over 850 casualties. Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran and a security guard at the time of the bombing, blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building with assistance from Terry Nichols and Michael Fortier, whom were also Army veterans. This event led to many key changes in the way that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) operates. In addition to the World Trade Center Bombing in 1993, these events allowed for the creation of the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996.
First off, Terry Nichols met McVeigh while serving in the Army. The duo became friends and McVeigh eventually acquainted with Michael Fortier whom he also met alongside Nichols. A couple of months before the infamous bombing took place, McVeigh revealed his master plan to Fortier and attempted to convince him to help him with it by being a getaway driver. Fortier refused, but sold weapons stolen by Nichols and McVeigh to fund their grand …show more content…

Due to the enormous amount of evidence that was collected during the investigations, the bombing led to the adoption of new case management software that handles the massive volume of records the FBI develops in investigations (Fox 2015). The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 gave federal employees more protections and grew the FBI’s abilities to investigate overseas terrorist attacks on U.S. citizens. Moreover, the FBI opened up a new counterterrorism division and upgraded its crisis response center, opening a new Strategic Information and Operations Center at FBI headquarters. To sum it up, the Oklahoma City Bombing allowed the FBI to have an international reach on acts of terrorism committed on U.S.

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