Word: waco
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BRUCE BABBITT You didn't start the fire, but your Interior Dept. did. Los Alamos blaze turning into your Waco...
Seven years after the fact, smoke still lingers over the fatal fire at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas - but FBI officials hope a new report will finally clear the air. According to Vector Data Systems, a British firm contracted to analyze video and reenactments of the 1993 siege, the flashes of light that fueled accusations of government wrongdoing were not FBI gunfire, as victims' family members believe. Instead, the report contends, the flashes were caused by sunlight glinting off metal and pieces of debris. Case closed? Not so fast. While this latest evidence would appear...
Plenty of people were upset by what happened at Waco, and none more so than family members of the 80-plus victims who died there; they've filed a wrongful death suit against the government, claiming FBI agents on the scene were directly responsible for the fires that consumed the compound. Government officials deny the allegations, charging that the Branch Davidians set the fires themselves. The embattled Attorney General Janet Reno has met with the lawyer representing the victims' families, and although the lines of communication remain open as evidence is gathered for a trial, no one expects any diplomatic...
...Waco hearings didn't work, even though 80 people died. Impeachment hearings didn't work, although the President actually had sex with that woman. Trying to show that reuniting a devoted father with his devoted son is a miscarriage of justice because the son had the misfortune to wash up on the shores of a swing state? No wonder Democrats are happy...
Reno was not completely tone deaf. It was a week of harrowing anniversaries: Columbine, Waco, Oklahoma City, the Bay of Pigs. She was not about to go in on Good Friday or on Easter Sunday. But she told INS officials that Saturday or Monday were both possibilities if negotiations stalled, and they in turn said whatever happened had to occur before 6 a.m., when the traffic lights in the neighborhood switch from blinking yellow to red, yellow and green, and the streets start filling with cars, and the sidewalks with anxious, angry people...