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Pastimes : The Truth about Waco -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (825)	9/9/1999 3:34:00 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1449

HI Gao; I have some problems with the Rules of Engagement, as it over states some things and in so doing can turn people off, also it don't stay in focus. While they get into David's sex life , from what I've seen they just take info from who they want, and any kinds of tales can be floated, but the point is nothing in his sex life could have been a federal offense that would warrant any investigation by the ATF to start with. This distracts from what is relative to the ATF raid. And why the building had to be destroyed, at all cost. ------------- Also While I question the actions of the Roof Man as I call him, and I can see he tossed something that exploded into a room he just put three men into, I can't tell if it was a smoke bomb or flash bang or what, but what I'm trying to say is them saying it was a grenade is like over stating things. This action of Roof Man needs to be investigated as it's very suspicious , but without more investigation it will never be conclusive. --------------------- About the Oklahoma City Bombing Johnnie Cochran will represent over 300 people who suffered losses in the bombing. About that suit the Associated Press reported [2]: More than 300 people joined the lawsuit against the government. They claim the [ATF] had prior warning of the April 19, 1995 bombing and that officials of the day care center in the federal building knew or should have known about the attack. EVIDENCE OF PRIOR KNOWLEDGE The ABC program 20/20 recently reported (1/17/97) on its investigation into the claim that the federal government had prior knowledge of the Murrah Building bombing. Perhaps most shocking, the 20/20 investigation discovered that someone had called the Executive Secretariat's Office at the Justice Department in Washington D.C. to report the Murrah Building bombing 24 minutes before the blast. 20/20 quoted on screen the official government document reading: The Department of Justice...received a telephone call...twenty-four minutes prior to the bombing... The caller said, “The federal building in Oklahoma City has just been bombed.” 20/20 anchor Tom Jarrel then noted that “no action was apparently taken” by the Justice Department in response to that strange emergency call minutes before the blast. ATF CLEARED OUT OF BUILDING? While at least 10 ATF agents were at the Murrah Building moments after the blast [10], it seems that the ATF office inside the building was empty at the time of the blast. The ABC program 20/20 (01/17/97) interviewed a man who, while looking for his wife at the Murrah Building, ran into an ATF agent who said that he had survived the blast because “We were tipped by our pagers not to come into work today.” That same individual, whose wife was injured in the blast, had been interviewed previously along with two other witnesses by NBC's affiliate in Oklahoma City, KFOR television (09/12/95). The second witness, the boss of the first, told KFOR viewers that he had overheard the account of the first witness just cited. The third witness, a rescue worker, had also been informed that there were no ATF agents in the building that day. All three witnesses spoke to KFOR, just as the first of the three spoke to 20/20, in shadow for fear of ATF reprisal. [9] Their fear of the ATF was well-founded: just ask former ATF agents Diane Kipel and Mike Casali, who were targeted for harassment and intimidation by the ATF after blowing the whistle on theft by ATF agents during raids in Chicago. As a result, they lived in constant terror for months, even keeping their children and themselves away from windows in their home through which they feared they would be shot by ATF snipers. [11] users.erols.com --------------- The amount of cover up by the Justice department is so fanatical that all I see is it making things worse. --------------- JIm