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...Sunday by House Speaker Newt Gingrich that Attorney General Janet Reno's nomination of Larry Potts as FBI deputy director "will further slow down the terrorist legislation and will mean even greater concern over civil liberties, which I don't think is inappropriate." Potts oversaw the 1993 siege at theBranch Davidian compound in Waco, Tx., and the disastrous 1992 shootout at the home of white separatist Randall Weaver in Idaho, for which he was censured last month. Gingrich said those incidents, which have become rallying cries amonganti-government paramilitaries, aggravate a "genuine fear" of the federal government among rural western...
...making an exploding bottle bomb at his residence in 1992, using brake fluid, gasoline and diesel fuel." The affidavit also says Daniel Stomber, a nearby resident, heard James Nichols say that "judges and President Clinton should be killed, and that he blamed the FBI and the ATF for killing theBranch Davidians in Waco." None of the charges bear directly on Wednesday's bombing. After police released a revised sketch of the second suspect, known as "John Doe 2," the manager of the Great Western Motel in Junction City, Kan., said today that the man had been there two days before...
TIME correspondent Edward Barnes reports that the two men thought to have rented the truck used in the bombing used a fake South Dakota drivers' license with a birthdate of April 19 -- the same day as theBranch Davidian disaster in Waco, Tx., as well as the Oklahoma City explosion. The name on the license was Robert D. Kling of 428 Maple Drive, Omaha, Neb., Barnes reports. There is no Robert D. Kling and there is no such address. However, two men named Robert Kling, one in Iowa, the other in Omaha, told TIME that the FBI had contacted them this...
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