Word: cult
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...featured acts took the stage: The Outlaws, Rick Derringer The Guess Who, Eddie Money, John Anderson and Doug Kershaw. Blue Oyster Cult, also scheduled to play, left before performing amid rumors of a fistfight...
...from the charges. Rep. Steven Schiff (R-N.M.) said the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms had a "legitimate interest" in the Branch Davidians because of alleged firearms violations, and Rep. Bill McCollum (R-Fla.), the other co-chairman, said he agreed with a Justice Department finding that cult members -- not agents -- began the deadly fire...
...negotiator Jeffrey Jamar, who recommended the plan to end the siege with a tear gas assault, challenged a cult lawyer's assertion that "some desk-bound bureaucrat in Washington" overrode a negotiated surrender agreement between the FBI and Branch Davidians. Jamar, who made the call, said evidence suggested that cult leader David Koresh's offer to surrender was nothing but a ruse. Koresh, said Jamar, "constantly would make promises he did not keep...
...agents holds that the agency's skittishness may have contributed to its spectacular failure in the initial 1993 raid at Waco, in which four agents and six Branch Davidians were killed. David Koresh, so the theory went, made an ideal safe target -- an apparent madman leading a cult that had armed itself with vast quantities of weapons. While it was the FBI that directed the final assault in which 81 people died, it was the ATF that targeted the compound in the first place. Says Kubicki, without a trace of irony: "Waco was a need to look pretty...
...That was their jurisdiction. I had other responsibilities to attend to. I thought it was already being taken care of by the Justice Department." Attorney General Janet Reno, he pointed out, made the decision to stage the final April 1993 raid that ended with a conflagration in which cult leader David Koresh and 80 of his Branch Davidian followers were killed. Republicans questioned how a treasury secretary could not have known of such a large operation being planned by one of his agencies. Said Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.): "This is quite an operation and I'm just disappointed that...