This info per FOX News:
Report: Investigator Believes FBI
Fired Shots at Branch Davidians
6.53 a.m. ET (1053 GMT) October 6, 1999
WASHINGTON — An expert in thermal imaging and videotape believes that an
FBI agent fired shots during the bureau's 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian
compound near Waco, Texas.
The FBI has said that none of its agents fired shots at any time during the siege in
which about 80 people died.
The Washington Post reports in Wednesday's editions that Carlos Ghigliotti,
who was hired by the House Government Reform Committee and who has
worked for the FBI in the past, has reviewed hundreds of hours of videotaped
evidence.
"I conclude that the FBI fired shots on that day," Ghigliotti told the Post in an
interview conducted Tuesday. "I conclude this based on the ground-view
videotapes taken from several different angles simultaneously and based on the
overheard thermal tape. The gunfire from the ground is there, without a doubt."
Ghigliotti, owner of Infrared Technologies Corp., in Laurel, Md., said the tapes
also confirm that the Davidians fired at FBI agents repeatedly during the assault.
Although FBI agents were operating under rules that permitted them to return fire,
bureau officials have maintained that no agents fired any shots.
Ghigliotti is not asserting that any injuries or deaths were caused by FBI gunshots.
He told the Post he reached his conclusion after spending hundreds of hours
reviewing various tapes of the siege, including a newly released FBI audio
recording that was part of a videotape turned over to Congress recently in
response to a subpoena.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the committee that retained Ghigliotti said
"it is premature to make any final determination."
"We don't want to go off half-cocked," Burton told the Post. "As soon as we get
all the necessary information, we will hold hearings and present the information to
the American people."
Former Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo., has been appointed by Attorney General
Janet Reno to investigate FBI actions at Waco.
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Mossyrock
I respect your right to your own opinions and beliefs
and will fight to the death to defend your right to them
regardless of how uninformed and ignorant they may be.
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Report: Investigator Believes FBI
Fired Shots at Branch Davidians
6.53 a.m. ET (1053 GMT) October 6, 1999
WASHINGTON — An expert in thermal imaging and videotape believes that an
FBI agent fired shots during the bureau's 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian
compound near Waco, Texas.
The FBI has said that none of its agents fired shots at any time during the siege in
which about 80 people died.
The Washington Post reports in Wednesday's editions that Carlos Ghigliotti,
who was hired by the House Government Reform Committee and who has
worked for the FBI in the past, has reviewed hundreds of hours of videotaped
evidence.
"I conclude that the FBI fired shots on that day," Ghigliotti told the Post in an
interview conducted Tuesday. "I conclude this based on the ground-view
videotapes taken from several different angles simultaneously and based on the
overheard thermal tape. The gunfire from the ground is there, without a doubt."
Ghigliotti, owner of Infrared Technologies Corp., in Laurel, Md., said the tapes
also confirm that the Davidians fired at FBI agents repeatedly during the assault.
Although FBI agents were operating under rules that permitted them to return fire,
bureau officials have maintained that no agents fired any shots.
Ghigliotti is not asserting that any injuries or deaths were caused by FBI gunshots.
He told the Post he reached his conclusion after spending hundreds of hours
reviewing various tapes of the siege, including a newly released FBI audio
recording that was part of a videotape turned over to Congress recently in
response to a subpoena.
Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., chairman of the committee that retained Ghigliotti said
"it is premature to make any final determination."
"We don't want to go off half-cocked," Burton told the Post. "As soon as we get
all the necessary information, we will hold hearings and present the information to
the American people."
Former Sen. John C. Danforth, R-Mo., has been appointed by Attorney General
Janet Reno to investigate FBI actions at Waco.
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Mossyrock
I respect your right to your own opinions and beliefs
and will fight to the death to defend your right to them
regardless of how uninformed and ignorant they may be.
[This message has been edited by Mossyrock (edited October 06, 1999).]