On another broadcast, Dave McCurdy, former Democratic congressman, promptly came on television and repeated the same unsubstantiated rumors. So this isn't accurate. Dave McCurdy was a former Oklahoma congressman, and he did get on air, and he connected the bombing to Hamas, not to the Nation of Islam. UPI reported on his comments, quote, My first reaction was there could be a very real connection to some of the fundamentalist groups operating around the city, the former congressman said. He said a number of Muslim fundamentalist groups, some with links to Hamas, had recently held a convention in the area.

There were some rumors going around that FBI agents were trying to sell surveillance video of the actual bomb going off to TV stations for $1 million. But retired FBI agent Stephen Brannon testified that he investigated those claims and found them to be a hoax.