Posted on 04/19/2010 6:06:14 PM PDT by Sybeck1
September 6, 1999
WASHINGTON--A former government officer has told investigators that members of the secret Army unit Delta Force said they participated in a shoot-out during the final assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.
The witness, according to congressional sources, has already named names; and will soon offer his account under oath!
The development caused panic and confusion at the top levels of the Justice Department and the FBI over the holiday weekend, leaving one top official scrambling for details.
FBI Director Freeh has demanded a full briefing, one agency source divulged late Monday.
Developing...
Meanwhile, congressional investigators are growing convinced that infrared film taken by an FBI surveillance aircraft at 9,000 feet on the final day of the Waco standoff does appear to show U.S. armed forces firing into the church compound.
"We are looking at the footage frame-by-frame... most of us have grown convinced that it does show snipers unloading from the rear of a tank," an investigator for the House Government Reform Committee told the DRUDGE REPORT.
Former FBI agent Richard Schwein, a supervisor at Waco, said charges of government gunfire were "absolutely false."
"False, absolutely false," he said on FOX NEWS SUNDAY. "No FBI agent fired any rounds from their weapons at Waco. There were no Delta Forces or special operations soldiers in an operational capacity at Waco." "And everyone on our side, and the FBI's side, were in armored vehicles, so I don't know how you'd have films of anybody firing into the back of the building. No one was on foot, because we had no body armor that would stop the rounds they were firing."
WAIVER WONDER
Use of active military personnel against civilians without presidential decree is a violation of federal law.
Late last month White House spokesman Joe Lockhart first told reporters that he had no information on the waiver issue.
[August 26, 1999; Thursday]
Q Joe, why was the Army's Delta Force present on the scene the day that Waco burned?
MR. LOCKHART: I would refer you to the Justice Department. I don't have information on the Delta Force one way or the other.
Q The reason I asked is because since the law prohibits the military being used against civilians, I wondered whether the White House either, A, requested it or, B, President Clinton signed a waiver for it.
MR. LOCKHART: I don't have any information on that. Again, I'd refer you to Justice. I don't have any independent information on their role, if any.
The next day, when asked again about any possible waiver, Lockhart offered more details.
[August 27, 1999; Friday]
Q What did the White House know about the potential operational involvement of Delta Force in the Waco siege?
MR. LOCKHART: I think that's an issue that was dealt with at the time. And as we said yesterday, the president was not asked to sign a waiver, nor were we aware of any activity that would have required a waiver. But, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, Lockhart may still not have the full story.
One witness has told congressional investigators that in April of 1993, in response to a press inquiry, a White House spokesman stated privately that a "waiver is on the president's desk that would have authorized military intervention.
A development that will cause battle during fresh rounds of congressional hearings.
FILED BY MATT DRUDGE
This Information Is From The Drudge Report
If Delta was involved, this is truly heartbreaking news. The US federal government’s Waco “intervention” smelled from the very beginning until the horrible horrible end. But I thought the DOD was relatively untainted in that fiasco.
In fact, I can trace my current depression, resignation and contempt for many agencies of the federal government, most especially the FBI and the ATF to that atrocity — and it WAS an atrocity.
The missing evidence, the spoiled evidence, the lies... They all counted...
But the SINGLE most important factor that proved conclusively to me that the government agencies were lying and covering up was the haste in which the entire compound area was bulldozed to prevent any event reconstruction of forensic analysis.
$50
He was scum. But he was a US citizen that deserved a fair trial.
The video documentary on it seemed pretty convincing. Been a long time since I have seen it. I’m sure it is on Youtube
Was that the amount of your contribution to FR today? FR is having a fundraiser. Thought maybe that is how much your pledge was for.
I can’t believe Clinton dragged this one out of the closet. Better to have left it alone ... here we go again!
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So -- in your view, Howell's perversion justified burning said daughters to death?
Well she never got raped again, I guess.......
Well, there you go. All the reason needed to throw the BoRs in the trash. /s
Said Reno was going to spill the beans if Clinton did not make her AG for his second term.
Strawman argument. Rule of law should have prevailed. Koresh was innocent until proven guilty, yet was exocuted by Clintoon and Reno, along with many innocent people. The discussion here is not what Koresh did, but how badly our own government reacted. Step out of line with Zero's government and you or I could be next to suffer the same fate . . .
For someone with the name TruthHound the truth seems an elusive thing.
Check out the four FLIR Project videos
Rather than arrest Koresh in town we murdered all the people he was abusing, including little children and pregnant women by burning them alive.
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I don’t see any proof of abuse by Koresh.
This was an einsatzgruppen wannabee operation.
Murder by government, on television, to inspire fear.
It backfired.
I saw that too but it didnt look like hannity really wanted to pursue it too badly. That was the million dollar question.
So kill them all to save them?
Don’t be a dip.
DOD was involved from the beginning and anyone paying any attention knew it. The armor was from Ft Hood. DOes anyone think the Texas Highway patrol has armor? There were folks in Army unifrom coming and going that were filmed. There were helicoptors with US Army markings. I could go on but you get the point. The place was dripping with DOD personnel. It was a flagrant violation of Posse Comitatus and we all knew it in real time. Oh, but it was OK because BJ had a “waiver”. I see.
What propellant is used in these rounds?
What is the IR emission spectrum of these rounds (as seen from the muzzle) when they are fired?
What is the IR spectrum of sunlight reflecting off of various types of broken glass?
Find these out; then film each of the above through an FLIR system such as in the video -- see if one can tell them apart.
Is it too late to look for spent rounds on the site of the mass death? (There shouldn't have been too many OTHER military/high-performance rounds scattered about the area since then, unless it has since been converted into a shooting range, right?)
NO cheers, unfortunately.
Do you have a thing for those that use tactics that needlessly put little kids in grave danger, tactics which resulted in the deaths of many of them?
This entire event and their deaths could have easily been avoided.
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