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...mind of FBI Director Louis Freeh. But it sure is interesting to speculate. This is a man, after all, who has spent his entire career as a federal employee, who ran the federal government?s lumbering law-enforcement bureau through some of its toughest times - the minefields of Waco, Wen Ho Lee and interminable Clinton scandals - with a grace many consider admirable...
When Timothy McVeigh bombed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, right-wing doomsayers saw him as a leading horseman of the apocalypse. After the 1992 shootout at Ruby Ridge and the 1993 siege at Waco, suspicion of federal agencies and gun-control initiatives reached paranoid levels. Within days of the bombing, conspiracy theorists claimed that the Federal Government had caused the explosions so that it could justify new antiterrorist legislation. The number of active militia groups quadrupled in the year after Oklahoma City. A TIME cover story on the militia movement just...
...Ronald Noble: The secretary-general of Interpol, Noble held high-level Treasury Department posts in the Reagan and Bush I administrations. He?s seen as pretty conservative. He?s very highly regarded; he ran the Treasury Department?s investigation into what went wrong at Waco, and it was generally agreed that he did an excellent job with that assignment. His investigation is much more highly regarded than the Justice Department?s investigation. Noble is the only black man who?s been mentioned as a contender for the Freeh?s post...
...reasonably good news and no really bad news making the FBI look bad. Freeh has managed to convince the oversight committee on the Hill that once he found out about Hanssen he went after him vigorously. And other things have been going pretty well for the FBI. The Waco furor has pretty much died out. And as anyone who watches the financial markets will tell you: It?s always good to sell when your stock is high...
...should be thinking of spring and April: T.S. Eliot, Columbine, Hitler, Shakespeare, Waco, taxes, Oklahoma City, Jesus, Moses, Al Jolson singing April Showers. My mother used to sing that. She was born on April l, no fooling...