September 13, 2004 issue Copyright © 2004 The American Conservative New Era of Big Government The Bush Betrayal, James Bovard, Palgrave-Macmillan, 330 pages By Bob Barr If someone described for you a national incident involving unprecedented loss of life, poor government planning, the failure to hold any government official accountable for mistakes, and Congress responding to the crisis by throwing money at the problem, chances are you’d conclude they were speaking about the causes and aftermath of 9/11. Actually, they could just as well be describing the siege and invasion of the Branch Davidian Compound at Waco, Texas, in 1993,...