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To: Michelino who wrote (39703)	4/15/2004 10:37:45 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793843

Whatever her motivation, and I'd like to think it was genuine and heartfelt, Janet Reno took "full responsibility" for Waco. I think she made bad decisions based on faulty information, and I think the information was faulty in large part due to the culture at the FBI and BATF. I've said, many times, that I don't agree with how politicised everything is anymore, but it is. A savvy politician should be able to triangulate the truth between political CYA exercises, and she didn't. Regardless, Waco was a f'up of monumental proportions, that has passed beyond memory into epic metaphor. Too bad we don't have an Aeschylus to do it justice. At least we don't have to "remember Waco" like we remember the Alamo. Yet. Cutting through the yadda-yadda, she screwed up. Big time. She knows it. The buck stops there. She took the bullet rather than Bill or Hillary. She will always be demonized by many.