Of course, the affidavit says NOTHING about a meth lab - so where does this tale originate?
Maybe it's been reported widely in newspapers, television news, radio shows, and Internet websites?
Critics target tactics used on civilian suspects
Dallas Morning News,Is meth a "weapon of mass destruction" in your universe?
September 26, 1999
The GAO report said ATF agents found people who told them that Mr. Koresh had said "drug trafficking was a desirable way to raise money." And they found informants who told them that a methamphetamine lab once operated on Branch Davidian property.Criminal record checks determined that several Branch Davidians had been convicted of drug offenses.
Defense department records show that some military lawyers suspected ATF of manufacturing the drug connection just to get thousands of dollars in free military assistance.
And others, including Sheriff Harwell, said ATF's information appeared to be several years old. Unproven allegations of a meth lab on Branch Davidian property had only been a hot topic before Mr. Koresh took over the religious sect in 1988, Sheriff Harwell said.
"I never knew David and the Davidians to be into drugs," the sheriff said last week.
With its drug-connection evidence in hand, ATF approached Operation Alliance, a multiagency clearinghouse that rules on civilian law enforcement requests for military assistance in anti-drug cases.
Operation Alliance approved the ATF's application and forwarded it to the Texas National Guard and Joint Task Force 6, a special military operation at Fort Bliss near El Paso. Joint Task Force 6's mission is to respond to law enforcement requests for anti-drug assistance.
The meth lab claim was made to the Governor of Texas to get legal justification for using the National Guard assts as part of the "War" on Drugs.
Iy being illegal otherwide use the military in ordinary law enforcement, how else do you think the ATF got the use of the ANG helicopters?