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...findings that these deaths ((of the four agents)) were not justified makes clear that the government had a responsibility to act," she said. The plans for the February attack were deficient, however, as the government has admitted. In September, the Treasury Department published a scathing report on the raid that described faulty planning, fouled-up communications and, worst of all, a fatal misjudgment by commanders of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who decided not to call off the attack even after they learned that they had lost the element of surprise. Last week Reno said...
...ambush the agents. Calling more than 120 witnesses, including ATF agents, Texas Rangers and gun dealers, prosecutors tried to prove the 10 men and one woman on trial -- three of whom were away from the compound on the day of the shooting -- knew in advance of the impending ATF raid and were bent on killing federal officers...
...Those would be his last words. The crash of Wolcott's Black Hawk transformed what had been planned as a textbook operation to decapitate Somalia's most powerful warlord into the longest sustained fire fight American soldiers have endured since the Vietnam War. The human costs of that raid, which took the life of 18 Americans and wounded more than 75 others, altered the very nature of the U.S. peacekeeping mission in Somalia, shocking the American public and forcing from the President a promise to remove all U.S. troops by the end of March...
Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison was cleared of ethics charges after the judge refused to rule before the trial on the admissibility of evidence seized in a raid of the state treasury offices. Faced with the judge's decision, the prosecutors declined to go ahead with their case...
According to an Illinois auditor general's report released the day before the Keystone raid, the state's department of children and family services fails about 1,500 times a year to investigate suspected abuse cases within the mandated 24 hours; it has also apparently been unable to resolve another 1,500 as true or false within the appointed 60-day deadline; 38% of its files were reported as missing key documents. Sterling M. Ryder, head of the social- services agency, admits that his staff should have got to the Keystone kids months ago. And he agrees with Kotlowitz...