Oklahoma’s governor is seeking the resignation of four county officials after a newspaper apparently recorded some of them saying they knew hit men and where holes were dug while complaining about two McCurtain Gazette-News reporters.
Jennings also said he’s known “two or three hit men” in Louisiana, adding “they’re very quiet guys.”
A spokeswoman for the FBI’s office in Oklahoma City said the agency’s policy is not to confirm or deny any ongoing investigation. Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for Attorney General Gentner Drummond, said the agency had received an audio recording and is investigating the incident, but declined to comment further.in Idabel on Monday, with many of them calling for the sheriff and other county officials to resign.
Joey Senat, a journalism professor at Oklahoma State University, said he was shocked to hear the comments made in the recording, especially in light of recent killings of journalists in the U.S., including theaccused of fatally stabbing a veteran newspaper reporter who had been investigating him.
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