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**Must Credit DRUDGE REPORT**
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 Monday.
Developing...
Meanwhile, congressional investigators are growing convinced that
infrared film taken by an FBI surveillance aircraft at 9,000 feet on the
final day of the Waco standoff does appear to show U.S. armed forces
firing into the church compound.
"We are looking at the footage frame-by-frame... most of us have grown
convinced that it does show snipers unloading from the rear of a tank,"
an investigator for the House Government Reform Committee told the DRUDGE
REPORT.
Former FBI agent Richard Schwein, a supervisor at Waco, said charges of
government gunfire were "absolutely false."
"False, absolutely false," he said on FOX NEWS SUNDAY. "No FBI agent
fired any rounds from their weapons at Waco. There were no Delta Forces
or special operations soldiers in an operational capacity at Waco.
"And everyone on our side, and the FBI's side, were in armored vehicles,
so I don't know how you'd have films of anybody firing into the back of
the building. No one was on foot, because we had no body armor that would
stop the rounds they were firing."
WAIVER WONDER
Use of active military personnel against civilians without presidential
decree is a violation of federal law.
Late last month White House spokesman Joe Lockhart first told reporters
that he had no information on the waiver issue.
[August 26, 1999; Thursday]
Q Joe, why was the Army's Delta Force present on the scene the day that
Waco burned?
MR. LOCKHART: I would refer you to the Justice Department. I don't have
information on the Delta Force one way or the other.
Q The reason I asked is because since the law prohibits the military
being used against civilians, I wondered whether the White House either,
A, requested it or, B, President Clinton signed a waiver for it.
MR. LOCKHART: I don't have any information on that. Again, I'd refer you
to Justice. I don't have any independent information on their role, if
any.
The next day, when asked again about any possible waiver, Lockhart
offered more details.
[August 27, 1999; Friday]
Q What did the White House know about the potential operational
involvement of Delta Force in the Waco siege?
MR. LOCKHART: I think that's an issue that was dealt with at the time.
And as we said yesterday, the president was not asked to sign a waiver,
nor were we aware of any activity that would have required a waiver.
But, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, Lockhart may still not have the full
story.
One witness has told congressional investigators that in April of 1993,
in response to a press inquiry, a White House spokesman stated privately
that a "waiver is on the president's desk" that would have authorized
military intervention.
A development that will cause battle during fresh rounds of congressional
hearings. [/quote]
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>**World Exclusive**
**Must Credit DRUDGE REPORT**
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 Monday.
Developing...
Meanwhile, congressional investigators are growing convinced that
infrared film taken by an FBI surveillance aircraft at 9,000 feet on the
final day of the Waco standoff does appear to show U.S. armed forces
firing into the church compound.
"We are looking at the footage frame-by-frame... most of us have grown
convinced that it does show snipers unloading from the rear of a tank,"
an investigator for the House Government Reform Committee told the DRUDGE
REPORT.
Former FBI agent Richard Schwein, a supervisor at Waco, said charges of
government gunfire were "absolutely false."
"False, absolutely false," he said on FOX NEWS SUNDAY. "No FBI agent
fired any rounds from their weapons at Waco. There were no Delta Forces
or special operations soldiers in an operational capacity at Waco.
"And everyone on our side, and the FBI's side, were in armored vehicles,
so I don't know how you'd have films of anybody firing into the back of
the building. No one was on foot, because we had no body armor that would
stop the rounds they were firing."
WAIVER WONDER
Use of active military personnel against civilians without presidential
decree is a violation of federal law.
Late last month White House spokesman Joe Lockhart first told reporters
that he had no information on the waiver issue.
[August 26, 1999; Thursday]
Q Joe, why was the Army's Delta Force present on the scene the day that
Waco burned?
MR. LOCKHART: I would refer you to the Justice Department. I don't have
information on the Delta Force one way or the other.
Q The reason I asked is because since the law prohibits the military
being used against civilians, I wondered whether the White House either,
A, requested it or, B, President Clinton signed a waiver for it.
MR. LOCKHART: I don't have any information on that. Again, I'd refer you
to Justice. I don't have any independent information on their role, if
any.
The next day, when asked again about any possible waiver, Lockhart
offered more details.
[August 27, 1999; Friday]
Q What did the White House know about the potential operational
involvement of Delta Force in the Waco siege?
MR. LOCKHART: I think that's an issue that was dealt with at the time.
And as we said yesterday, the president was not asked to sign a waiver,
nor were we aware of any activity that would have required a waiver.
But, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, Lockhart may still not have the full
story.
One witness has told congressional investigators that in April of 1993,
in response to a press inquiry, a White House spokesman stated privately
that a "waiver is on the president's desk" that would have authorized
military intervention.
A development that will cause battle during fresh rounds of congressional
hearings. [/quote]
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"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" RKBA!