After all, they emphasize, McVeigh himself admitted such. In his introduction to the book, retired FBI agent and Governor of Oklahoma at the time of the bombing, Frank Keating, described the bombing as an act of “monstrous evil” but assured readers that Simple Truths “is the closed book on the case. Two evil men did this and two evil men paid.” Simple Truths is illustrative of the way in which the government’s Lone Wolf story is oddly similar to McVeigh’s own.
