Now John Gibson is asking questions about the OKC/Iraq connection. They’re not the right questions–he’s assuming that the feds wanted McVeigh out of the way quickly to provide “closure for the families.”

No, John, they wanted him out of the way quickly because they wanted to minimize the chances that he would change his mind and talk, and convert Clinton’s campaign against evil right wingers into a much less desirable (to him) war with Iraq.

Did Janet Reno execute anyone else as quickly as Tim McVeigh? Did she, in fact, in the eight years of her tenure, execute anyone else, period?

The answer is no. Of course, not one else had, either. He was the first federal prisoner executed since 1963.

[Update, a few minutes later]

And here’s a related AP story.