David A Fahrenthold Tom Hamburger Rosalind S Helderman The Washington Post

On April 19, 1995, as the first reports came in about a bombing in Oklahoma City, some of the federal government's top prosecutors gathered in the office of Merrick Garland - who at the time was the second-in-command to the Justice Department's second-in-command.

On April 19, 1995, as the first reports came in about a bombing in Oklahoma City, some of the federal government's top prosecutors gathered in the office of Merrick Garland - who at the time was the second-in-command to the Justice Department's second-in-command.