Newsgroups: talk.politics.guns,misc.legal
From: [r--nd--s] at [nyx.cs.du.edu] (Mr. Nice Guy)
Subject: Waco, We were right ! Probe shows ATF screwed up
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 93 15:11:50 GMT

From the Sat Aug 14 Boulder Daily Camera, posted without permission.
 
Probe into Waco raid uncovers judgment errors
 
Washington--The Treasury Department's top law enforcement officer has
told federal firearms administrators that a probe into their Feb 28
raid on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, has uncovered
serious errors in judgment on their part and said that some officials
knowingly made misleading statements about the raid to superiors and
the media.
 
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms sources said it appears that
there will be an overhaul of the leadership at the nation's leading
gun-enforcement agency for enforcing gun laws in the wake of the raid.
 
 
Four ATF agents and several Branch Davidians died in the initial raid
and nearly 80 of the religious cult members died when the compound
burned after federal agents fired teargas into the groups headquarters
during a final assault in April.
 
In a recent series of private meetings, Ronald K.  Noble, assistant
Treasury secretary for law enforcement.  told some ATF officials to
consider retirement and said others could face severe reprimands
bureau sources said.
 
end of story

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Rod Anderson  N0NZO         | "I do not think the United States government
Boulder, CO                 | is responsible for the fact that a bunch of
[r--nd--s] at [nyx.cs.du.edu]      | fanatics decided to kill themselves"
satellite  N0NZO on ao-16   |        Slick Willie the Compassionate