Cato Blasts Danforth Waco Report

APRIL 10, 2001

Cato Blasts Danforth Waco Report
By DANIEL KAGAN, Managing Editor,
UPI Think Tank Desk

WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- A new study by the Cato Institute says that the final official government report on the 1993 Branch Davidian disaster in Waco, Tex.-- which exonerated federal officials from wrongdoing-- is "not supported by the factual evidence."

In "No Confidence: An Unofficial Account of the Waco Incident," criminal justice scholar Timothy Lynch, director of the libertarian Cato's Project on Criminal Justice, analyzes the legal implications of certain undisputed events and concludes that the official investigation into the incident -- led by special prosecutor former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri -- was "soft and incomplete." According to Lynch, many obvious crimes have gone unprosecuted.

For example, says Lynch, ATF agents were caught on tape assaulting a local television cameraman after he had filmed their retreat from the initial raid on the Branch Davidian complex. Lynch says that ATF agents also lied to federal investigators -- a federal offense -- but were never prosecuted despite recommendations by U.S. Marshals.

More seriously, he says, FBI agents exhibited a gross disregard for human life when they indiscriminately fired "ferret" rounds at the Davidian residence and used tanks to ram its walls. "Since at least one child was struck by a ferret round, second-degree murder charges may be appropriate,"
Lynch writes.

Also, the involvement of certain FBI officials in the Waco operation "should have set off alarm bells with Special Prosecutor Danforth's investigators," Lynch writes. Those officials were suspended by the Department of Justice for their involvement in the controversial "Ruby Ridge" incident, in which the wife of white separatist survivalist Randy Weaver was killed by an FBI sniper during a nine-day standoff with agents in Ruby Ridge, Idaho in 1992. One of these officials was eventually sentenced to 18 months in prison for destroying evidence and lying to investigators about his role in that cover-up.

Lynch points out that the involvement of those officials in supervisory positions at Waco was not even mentioned in the special prosecutor's report. "Danforth should have hauled those individuals before a grand jury and questioned them about missing Waco evidence," Lynch says. "He did not."

If the crimes chronicled in his study go unpunished, Lynch concludes, "the Waco incident will leave an odious precedent-that federal agents can use the "color of their office" to commit crimes against citizens."

The report is available as Policy Analysis no. 395 at the Cato Institute website: http://cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-395es.html. Cato Report: http://cato.org/pubs/pas/pa395.pdf

Danforth was wrong on Waco!
Just released 'F.L.I.R. Project' proves feds fired shots at Davidians
http://www.dxmarket.com/worldnetdaily/products/V0026.html

Inside Mount Carmel
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wacopg.htm

Dick DeGuerin, Koresh's Attorney (on 60 Minutes)
http://www.apfn.org/wacoinfo/waco7.wmv

ILLUMINATI LINKED TO WHY WACO, LINKED TO CLINTON!
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/whywaco.htm

Non-professional 90-minute audio tape tells story of the Republic of
Texas, added to this tape are cuts of information of Bill Clinton's
connection to the Illuminati. This information has never been released
because of the most certain death that will occur to those who are in
the know. This is a judge for yourself, real interviews with various
inside contacts that have told various parts of who pulled the trigger
on the Branch Davidian's and the connections. Shocking, to say the
least. In Bill Clinton's own words he thanks his friend of 25 years,
Bernard Rappoport of Waco, Texas. The reported illuminati controller
of Texas, if not the entire United States as revealed on tape.

See Video: http://www.apfn.org/Movies/ClintonUT.WMV (Windows Media Video)

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WACO 'POGO RADIO YOUR WAY'
http://www.apfn.net/WACO-POGO.HTM

WACO: 911 Tapes 02/28/93
Waco Police Dept Recordings (Wayne Martin to LT. Lynch W.S.D., Koresh to LT. Lynch (cellular)
The following tapes have not been edited. They are the original tapes and have some 'static only' blank spots. Please stand by.........
Tape 1 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L001I060304140238-WACO-TAPES1.MP3 (7.01MB) 30 Min 32Sec
Tape 2 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L002I060304143736-WACO-TAPES2.MP3 (6.92MB) 30 Min 12 Sec
Tape 3 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L003I060304154014-WACO-TAPES3.MP3 (7.2MB) 30 Min 29 Sec
Tape 4 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L004I060304164626-WACO-TAPES4.MP3 (7MB) 30 Min 34 Sec
Tape 5 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L005I060304172309-WACO-TAPES5.MP3 (3.52MB) 15Min 24Sec
Tape 6 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L006I060304173902-WACO-TAPES6.MP3 (7.21MB) 31Min 30Sec
Tape 7 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L007I060304185042-WACO-TAPES7.MP3 (6.35MB) 27Min 44Sec
Tape 8 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L008I060304192051-WACO-TAPES8.MP3 (6.91MB) 30Min 13Sec
Transcription from 911 calls during Waco raids
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/calls.htm
David Koresh Tape:
http://www.apfn.net/audio/L009I060304202416-DAVID-KORESH.MP3 (3.85MB) 16Min 50Sec
Ken Fawcett, Starleen Riddle
#1 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L002I060312074949-riddle-lynch-martin1.MP3 (4.32MB) 18Min 53 Sec
Starleen Riddle & Lt. Lynch
#2 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L003I060312081433-riddle-lynch-martin2.MP3 (6.30MB) 27Min 30 Sec
**Tape recordings of conversations between the police department
and the surveillance house across the street indicate someone named
Starleen Riddle was acting in the role of surveillance at the house
across the street. Two women and one man who had lived at Mt. Carmel
were all named Riddle. What are these connections?
The report lied again when they said the police department
recorded the call when it came in on 911. The recording clearly contains
the sounds of the Branch Davidian punching in the phone number 911 while
they were initiating the call before there was any connection. This
could have only come from a phone tap. But, they had no warrant to do
so, a violation of law.
Starleen Riddle was acting in the role of surveillance
http://www.theconspiracy.us/9502/0029.html

When verdicts in the criminal trial of 11 Branch Davidians were handed down
on Feb. 26, 1994, Ruth Riddle was one of four found not guilty of manslaughter.
The worst she faced was deportation to her home in Canada.
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/shared/tx/branchdavidian/where/riddle.html

Congressional Hearings on Waco Tragedy:
#1 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L010I060304204109-Waco-Congr-Hearing1.MP3 (5.25MB) 22Min 57Sec
#2 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L011I060304213939-Waco-Congr-Hearing2.MP3 (397KB) 1Min 40 Sec
#3 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L012I060304214547-Waco-Congr-Hearing3.MP3 (3.27MB) 14Min 18 Sec
#4 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L001I060305085751-Waco-Congr-Hearings4.MP3 (2.95MB) 12Min 55Sec
#5 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L002I060305091127-Waco-Congr-Hearings5.MP3 (6.43MB) 28Min 6Sec
#6 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L003I060305094203-Waco_Crongr-Herings6.MP3 (944KB) 4Min 1 Sec
#7 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L004I060305094640-Waco-Congr-Hearings7.MP3 (485KB) 2Min 3 Sec
#8 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L005I060305094923-Waco-Congr-Hearings8.MP3 (6.01MB) 26Min 16 Sec
Waco: 2nd Panel Hearing
#9 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L002I060305153604-Waco-Hearing-2nd_Panel1.MP3 (3.91) 17Min 4 Sec
#10http://www.apfn.net/audio/L005I060305161748-Waco-Hearing-2nd_Panel2.MP3 (5.84MB) 28 Min 31 Sec
#11http://www.apfn.net/audio/L006I060305165226-Waco-Hearing-2nd_Panel11.MP3(3.47MB)15Min 10Sec
The Rest of Hearings on Waco & David Koresh
#12 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L007I060305170848-Waco-Hearing-2nd_Panel12.MP3 (5MB) 21Mn 51Sec

Getting Milk to the Children (2 min. 55 sec.)
(David Koresh and Sheriff Jack Harwell)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/audio/milk.ram

listening devices, bugs buried inside the milk cartons and their styrofoam containers
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/waco/wacotranscript.html
Transcript

Waco News, callers
#1 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L001I060305145248-Waco-News-callers1.MP3 (5.30MB) 23Min 11 Sec
Waco Information: Chuck Harder, Sarah Bain, David Hall and David Thibodeau (a Waco survivor)
#2 http://www.apfn.net/audio/L001I060306074756-WACO-INFO1.MP3 (9.26MB) 40Min 29 3Sec

Movie: The Waco Incident
http://www.apfn.org/Movies/incident.WMV

APFN Waco Page
http://www.apfn.org/old/wacopg.htm