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It looks like somebody is going to have to update the Waco Siege page on Wikipedia. Apparently the whitewashed history that former President Bill Clinton would like us to believe regarding the 1993 federal assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, is missing important details regarding his own personal involvement. In response to Bill Clinton’s highly publicized linking of the Tea Party movement to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing in an op-ed piece for the New York Times, former Clinton adviser Dick Morris disclosed on Monday that it was Clinton himself, and not Attorney General Janet Reno, as...

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...

Thursday, June 1, 2006, at 11P Through narrative and accompanying visuals, the series, Final Report, will be the story-behind-the-story. The Final Report: Waco Tragedy, examines and answers the questions central to understanding the events that lead to the deaths of 4 ATF agents and80 members of the Branch Davidians including their leader, David Koresh, in a raid and subsequent grisly fire in April, 1993.

(April 19, 2006)--An informal memorial service may be held Wednesday at the site of the Branch Davidian compound to mark the 13th anniversary of the fire that killed almost 80 Davidians and ended the 51-day standoff with federal agents, but survivors don’t plan to attend this year, according to the Mt. Carmel Survivors Newsletter.

ATF agent tries to put Waco ghosts to rest By Guillermo Contreras San Antonio Express-News Web Posted : 10/12/2003 12:00 AM Images of the shootout and siege, scenes that once gripped viewers around the globe but which long since have faded from the public consciousness, still streak through Aguilera's mind. He was the ATF agent whose firearms investigation of the Branch Davidians led to a raid on their compound near Waco on Feb. 28, 1993. The ill-fated raid claimed four U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents and six Davidians and sparked a 51-day standoff that ended in the...

<p>SOUR LAKE, Texas — A former federal prosecutor who defended the U.S. government in a lawsuit filed by surviving Branch Davidians (search) was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.</p> <p>A police officer checking on an abandoned vehicle found the body of former U.S. Attorney J. Michael Bradford (search) shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday.</p>

<p>A former federal prosecutor who defended the U.S. government in a lawsuit filed by surviving Branch Davidians was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said.</p> <p>A police officer checking on an abandoned vehicle found the body of former U.S. Attorney J. Michael Bradford shortly before 7 p.m. Tuesday.</p>

Read these first:A Graveyard Called Waco [Free Republic] Ghosts of Waco haunt the ruins [Free Republic] The ATF Fired First [Free Republic] Then begin here: The FLIR Project       Posted by E. Pluribus UnumOn 04/19/2003 5:55 PM EDT with 8 comments FreeRepublic.com ^ | April 15, 2001 | E, Pluribus Unum         Fed's attack Texas church and burn it to the ground.....       Posted by ASTM366On 04/19/2003 5:05 PM EDT with 356 comments PBS - WGBH/Frontline ^ | 1995 | PBS         10 years after Waco siege, police face another...

As I do each year, I post information to commemorate the attack by FBI agents in military vehicles on the Branch Davidians compound near Waco, Texas on April 19, 1993.The Branch Davidians, a reclusive group of Christian believers, had been attacked 51 days earlier by over 100 heavily armed BATF agents, surrounded and subjected to psychological warfare techniques by government agents. On April 19th the feds sent in military vehicles to fill the building at the Branch Davidian compound with chemical agents to flush out the remaining occupants. What resulted was a fire that burned to death nearly all the...

<p>WACO, Texas (AP) - Two-year-old Kimberly Martin fell asleep on a chapel bench during a rambling sermon about the end of the world. The religious group's leader, David Koresh, got angry. He jerked the sleepy toddler and made her sit beside him as he kept on preaching.</p>

10 years later, memories of Waco tragedy linger City hopes to put fatal Branch Davidian standoff behind it04/17/2003 Associated Press WACO, Texas – During business trips across the country, Mayor Linda Ethridge likes to talk about Waco's small-town comforts and big-city amenities, the new programs at Baylor University and the local plant that makes Snickers candy bars. She can name famous native Wacoans – comedian Steve Martin, author Robert Fulghum and former Texas Gov. Ann Richards among them. Ethridge will talk about the Dr Pepper Museum, honoring the soft drink created here in 1885 and the expansion project at the...

Saw something interesting in ABC News' 600-word promo for Charlie Gibson's 'Waco Special.'

Brought together for the first time, they share stories of the bizarre world created by cult leader David Koresh and discuss living with the realization that their parents were willing to abandon them to follow Koresh to their graves. In addition, these survivors confront the former FBI agent who was in charge of the failed negotiations with Koresh — the first time someone involved in the siege has agreed to meet with them face to face. Primetime will also air never-before-seen footage of the children's disturbing therapy sessions from 1993, which demonstrate the eerie effectiveness of Koresh's brainwashing techniques. The...

Brad Borst remembers that infamous day 10 years ago in more detail than he'd like. He was a 19-year-old construction worker, helping to build the new Denver airport. At the end of his workday, riding a bus that took crews to a parking lot, he heard co-workers chatting. "They were kind of joking around, saying something like, 'Did you hear that they burned up those religious fanatics?'" Borst tensed, but kept mum. As soon as he reached his car, he switched on the radio. That's how he learned his mother was dead. The afternoon was April 19, 1993. Hours earlier,...

Strange how the government doesn't want our flag to show in Iraq, but didn't mind it in Waco. Seems things are little bit backwards. waco photos

An independent forward-looking infrared, or FLIR, analyst says the government used inappropriate scientific methods to "prove" federal agents did not fire at Branch Davidians as they tried to escape their burning complex in Waco, Texas, a decade ago – perhaps, she says, to reach a predetermined conclusion that exonerates federal agents. Barbara Grant, an independent consultant in electro-optics who has studied extensively the March 2000 re-enactment of the final hours of the Waco siege authorized by special counsel John Danforth, says in a new research paper, "The key issue [of the test] was whether flashes recorded on infrared imagery represented...

Science offers an unbiased approach to problem solving, but good scientific practice can be jeopardized when controversial topics are at issue. At Waco, government science failed. To illustrate, compare the problem-solving on Waco technical issues with NASA's approach to getting a crippled Apollo 13 spacecraft back to Earth. Who can forget the response to "Houston, we have a problem?" Swiftly, decisively, in a zero-tolerance-for-error atmosphere, engineers, scientists, flight controllers and astronauts formulated a solution that brought the spacecraft home. Calculations were made and checked, models built, hypotheses generated and tested. Many individuals applied their expertise, and the work was folded...

In the ten years since a devastating fire took the lives of 74 Davidians, a group of survivors has returned to the windswept plains east of Waco, like ghosts haunting the site of their former compound. A new church has been built at Mount Carmel, and inside, they listen to their leader preach the same apocalyptic doctrine, and they wait for David Koresh to return. LIKE MOST VISITORS, THEY HAD driven by the front gate slowly, then turned around and tentatively poked onto the property. The driver pulled up to the dirt parking area in front of the Mount...

The Fires Of Waco Still Burn In The Heart Of The American Conscience By Chuck Baldwin Toogood Reports [Weekender, March 2, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST] February 28th marked the tenth anniversary of the illegal assault by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms on the home of the Branch Davidians living outside Waco, Texas. A shootout resulted with several deaths on both sides. Shortly afterward, the Federal Bureau of Investigation took over, and on April 19, 1993, agents from both departments (using military hardware and both U.S. and foreign military advisers) laid siege to the dwellings which resulted...