[From "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton, p. 91-92 (bold added by me)]
"I told Strassmeir outright that the evidence linking him to the bombing was very strong.
"Either you are a mass murderer, or you are an undercover agent," I said. "Either you killed all those people, or you risked your life to penetrate a group of vile, dangerous people. Take your pick, Andreas, but don't think you can stick your head in the sand and hope that it will all go away. It won't go away."
"You don't understand," he said.
"You know what I think already," I persisted. "I think you're a very courageous man. I think you did everything you could to stop that bombing. You did your part; you got inside the most deadly terrorist conspiracy in the history of the United States; you got these maniacs to believe in you; your cover was brilliant; and somebody let you down, didn't they Andreas?"
"You don't understand," he repeated almost plaintively.
"I do understand, Andreas. I understand that it wasn't your fault. Are you listening to me? It wasn't your fault. So why not just come out and tell the whole rotten truth, and get it over and done with? You don't have to cover for the ATF."
"You think it's as simple as that?" he stammered.
"I don't know, Andreas. You tell me. Who were you working for anyway? Did the Germans send you over?"
"No! No, they would never do that."
"So who was it then? The ATF? The Bureau? Who were you working for?"
"Look, I can't talk any longer."
"Just listen to me, Andreas. They're going to hang you out to dry. When this thing comes down they're going to leave you holding that bomb, or -- and you know this as well as I do -- you'll fall under a train one day on the U Bahn, when nobody's looking."
"I've got to go to work."
"There comes a time in every botched operation when the informant has to speak out to save his own skin, and that's now, Andreas."
"How can he?" he shouted into the telephone. "What happens if it was a sting operation from the very beginning? What happens if it comes out that the plant was a provocateur?"
"A provocateur?"
"What if he talked and manipulated the others into it? What then? The country couldn't handle it. The relatives of the victims are going to go crazy. He's going to be held responsible for the murder of 168 people."
"That is true."
"Of course the informant can't come forward. He's scared shitless right now."
"It sounds to me as if you've got a problem, Andreas."
"Scheise." [shit!]
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