Actually, Reno took the fall for the backlash from it, but it was most certainly "someone" in the White House who was calling the shots. Reno had been in the job of Attorney General for just a couple or three weeks at the time of the inferno, if my memory serves. And the confrontation and siege had been going for weeks before that. Heck, she probably was still learning her way around her office and where the executive dining room was when Waco was flamed. Put your money on Hillary and Vince Foster, if the truth is ever discovered.
There used to be some truly excellent threads on Waco on FR about 3 or 4 years ago. I recall one which gave a link to an audio of the second in command inside the compound screaming over the phone to the man he "trusted" in the government gang, that they were being shot at by people in the helicopters overhead. The "gummint guy" said it couldn't be, because there were no machine guns attached to the aircraft. The Davidian kept insisting they were being shot at, whether the guns were installed or not, and the G-man then agreed that it was so. Don't you wonder why that sort of testimony did not come out of Danforth's "investigation" of Waco?
My computer crashed from a virus last fall and all the links I had archived on many subjects were lost. Does someone still have access to the one I described, who can post it here again?