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To: EternalVigilance
He recommended the gas.
19 posted on 10/26/2003 6:30:12 PM PST by John Beresford Tipton
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To: John Beresford Tipton
If you're an officer and some high official in the administration you work for calls you for advice, you kinda have an obligation to give it, don't you think?
20 posted on 10/26/2003 6:31:58 PM PST by EternalVigilance
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To: John Beresford Tipton
he advised Attorney General Janet Reno on what kind of gas to use to end the Federal Government's standoff with a religious group in Waco, Texas

It's Time magazine!

They would have us believe Sterno said, "What kind of gas do I us, Colonel Boykin?"

A quick google -- honest, CNN is the best I could do with so little time -- found this CNN report. To wit,

Army reportedly declined to review FBI approach to Waco siege "Can't grade your paper" From CNN National Security Producer Chris Plante

August 31, 1999 Web posted at: 2:41 a.m. EDT (0641 GMT)

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, August 31) -- Just days before the fiery end to the Waco standoff, top Army Special Forces officials were asked to offer their views of an FBI assault plan for the Branch Davidian compound but refused to do so, CNN has learned. . . According to a once-secret Army memo, Gen. Peter Jan Schoomaker, who was in charge of a special forces unit at the time, declined to provide an assessment of the FBI plan for the siege of the compound. [end excerpt]

Col Boykin was with Brig. Gen. Schoomaker.

Time lied? That's how I read it. See for yourself.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/08/31/fbi.waco/

24 posted on 10/26/2003 6:38:18 PM PST by WilliamofCarmichael
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