Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: [b f rg 9732] at [uxa.cso.uiuc.edu] (Brian F. Redman)
Subject: WACO Footnotes
Date: Thu, 27 May 1993 18:33:39 GMT

For some reason the following was rejected when I posted
it as a "follow" to a previous post. I am therefore posting
it under a separate heading.


1) CBS's show "60 Minutes" did a segment on the Bureau of Alcohol
Tobacco and Firearms recently. The segment focussed on sexual
harassment of female agents within the BATF as well as low morale
within the agency and its "tarnished image." 

In frustration with management's inflexible response to their
in-house complaints, a group of agents finally went public on
"60 minutes" as whistle-blowers. The segment was interesting in
its portrayal of a federal agency experiencing internal disorder,
mayhem, overly macho attitudes, and with a wild-west ideal
permeating the staff. 

But what is germaine to this thread is that the segment closed
with Dan Rather adding, almost as an afterthought, that these
whistle-blowers were of the unanimous opinion that the original
motivation for the raid on the "Koresh compound" was an effort
to improve the BATF's tarnished image. [The segment aired on
Sunday, May 23rd, 1993. I don't know if Rather's final comment
would be included in a transcript.]


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