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...Branch Davidians. The members of the Branch Davidians included a large number of elderly and children. The people who composed the Branch Davidians were of diverse ethnicities. Waco essentially questions the public's conception of the Branch Davidians, personalizing them as victims of their own beliefs and the ATF...
...justify the more disreputable behavior among the Branch Davidians. Waco contains almost too much sympathy for the Branch Davidians. When dealing with the sexual abuse of children that may have occurred at the compound, the documentary adopts a specious argument based on parental consent, then places blame on the ATF for using this abuse--an area for which the agency has no jurisdiction--as a basis for involvement. The film, like the ATF itself, shifts blame through technicalities...
Sources familiar with the defense say the exclusion of Howe was the worst blow. In 1994, while living in Elohim City, Okla., a redoubt of white supremacists, Howe became an informant for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. She made about 70 reports to her ATF contacts, which Howe's lawyer turned over to the defense. Sources say the reports discuss five men who traveled frequently to Oklahoma City to inspect the Murrah building. In an internal ATF memo written in April 1995 and obtained by Time, Howe told her supervisors that Elohim City leaders talked to her about...
...ATF www.atf.treas.gov/ No frills, no nonsense, no pretty guided tour, and just-the-facts-ma'am icons from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms...
...Clintons have politicized the FBI seriously understates the case--from Janet Reno's pathetic refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate political-campaign contributions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' fiasco in Waco. The Justice Department, the ATF and the FBI have been totally compromised, and their leaders are doing the White House's bidding. Obstruction of justice, not pursuit of truth, now seems to be the FBI's specialty. When the lid finally blows off, the media will have to account to the American public for their soft-pedaling. DAN WISMAR Wadsworth, Ohio...