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Former FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts, who has been suspended along with four other officials pending a Justice Department investigation, testified before the Senate panel probing the FBI's 1992 fatal standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver's family. Contradicting previous testimony by the on-scene FBI commander, Potts insisted he never approved the agency's controversial shoot-on-sight rules of engagement...
John Magaw, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, has backed off comments that the FBI bungled the 1993 standoff in Waco. Monday, Magaw said: "I believe that had we been left in charge of the Waco incident, we would not have burned that building." Tuesday, after a talking-to by Janet Reno and FBI director Louis Freeh: "I need to make perfectly clear David Koresh, not Attorney General Reno or the FBI, was responsible for the fire...
...final version of welfare reform. Clinton even praised the Senate in his Saturday radio address for "wisdom and courage" in crafting the bill that he said puts the country "within striking distance" of a package he would be willing to sign. After months of partisan fang baring, the Great Standoff of 1995 is heading toward its endgame. It's time now to make as many deals as politics and principle will allow...
...marksmen told a skeptical Senate panel that the 1992 fatal shooting of white separatist Randy Weaver's wife by an FBI colleague was justified. Reason? The gun-toting Weavers, caught in a standoff with agents, posed a threat to a circling FBI helicopter. Federal marshals involved in the shootout that precipitated the siege testified that they believe Weaver accidentally killed his son--and not they, as Weaver has charged...
...rapt Senate panel listened sympathetically to white separatist Randy Weaver's account of the deadly standoff that occurred between his family and the FBI at his remote Ruby Ridge, Idaho, cabin in 1992. The encounter, which began when federal agents came to arrest Weaver on firearms charges, resulted in the shooting death of Weaver's wife, his son and a federal marshal--and accusations that the FBI used excessive force to end the siege and then tried to cover it up. In their testimony, federal law-enforcement officials defended their initial decision to bring firearms charges against Weaver. The Justice...