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...mercy. TIME's Patrick Cole reports that the defense will call family members, teachers and military officials as character witnesses. The defense will use the testimony to argue that McVeigh's sentence should be reduced to life in prison because his he anger over the FBI siege at Waco overwhelmed reason and led him to act. That's a tough sell for 12 jurors who just spent three days weeping over the 168 people McVeigh killed...
...name the prosecution says McVeigh used when he rented the Ryder truck. McVeigh's sister Jennifer corroborated the accounts of other witnesses who said that McVeigh harbored a deep hatred of the Federal Government and believed it had not atoned for its 1993 attack on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas. In their last conversation before the bombing, Tim told Jennifer that he had moved from the "propaganda stage" to the "action stage." Jennifer also said that Tim had described in November 1994 how he had nearly been in an accident with up to 1,000 pounds of explosives...
...this country, there's nothing that dramatic going on. Even right-wing militia wackos--folks you could always count on for antisocial behavior--are acting responsibly. Ever since Waco, it turns out, some militia leaders have been working secretly with the FBI to ease tensions between the feds and groups like the Republic of Texas, whose standoff this month ended without a conflagration. Even the once radical N.R.A. was overtaken by forces of moderation at its national convention. What's an angry white male...
...Clintons have politicized the FBI seriously understates the case--from Janet Reno's pathetic refusal to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate political-campaign contributions to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms' fiasco in Waco. The Justice Department, the ATF and the FBI have been totally compromised, and their leaders are doing the White House's bidding. Obstruction of justice, not pursuit of truth, now seems to be the FBI's specialty. When the lid finally blows off, the media will have to account to the American public for their soft-pedaling. DAN WISMAR Wadsworth, Ohio...
...Bush might have to turn into Governor Fujimori--a reference to the Peruvian President who had to use force to end the four-month siege of the Japanese embassy in Lima. Officials took every precaution in the standoff, not least because Texas is the place that saw the Waco conflagration. (Earlier in the week, the Denver trial of Timothy McVeigh, who was allegedly motivated by Waco, was placed under tighter security after three men with ties to the Branch Davidians were arrested in a raid in Colorado in which FBI agents confiscated explosives.) Thus, arrayed in Fort Davis, Texas, against...