by Mark Adams, American Thinker:
We’ve recently learned a great deal about the FBI’s election interference by hiding the truth about Hunter’s laptop, as well as its illegal persecution of Donald Trump. Sadly, this isn’t the first time the FBI’s gotten recklessly out of control.
On February 28, 1993, more than 70 Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (“BATF”) agents, with help from three military helicopters, launched an attack on the Branch Davidians, an offshoot sect of Seventh-Day Adventism, operating under David Koresh’s leadership. The attack took place at the Davidians’ sprawling residence called Mount Carmel, in Waco, Texas.
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The attack was spurred by allegations that Koresh and his followers had illegally converted semi-automatic rifles to full-automatic capacity and that nothing short of a massive military-style raid would make it possible to arrest David Koresh and properly search the residence. To build the public case, the government alleged that the Davidians were a child-molesting cult.
The BATF agents botched the raid. The result was that several were killed, and the remainder were forced into a humiliating retreat and ultimate surrender. According to one writer, the real reason for the raid was that the BATF “saw the Branch Davidians…as the perfect patsies for a high-profile raid that would make G-men look like heroes.”
After the ATF debacle, the FBI was called in to deal with the mess. The FBI’s involvement ultimately ended in a fiery inferno. The FBI caused much of the main building to collapse on the Davidians, leaving 76 burned corpses buried in the smoldering rubble.
Image: The Waco Siege. YouTube screen grab.
A lot of people know that story. What few people know is that Joe Biden was a major player, and that’s true despite a criminal trial, two cabinet-level inquiries, and three sets of congressional hearings—and he had his work cut out for him in the cover-up.
If you want to know just how bad what really happened was, think about this: After hearing weeks of testimony during the Waco trial, the jury acquitted 11 surviving Branch Davidians of murder. Jury forewoman Sarah Bain bemoaned:
“We spoke in the jury room about the fact that the wrong people were on trial, that it should have been the ones who planned the raid and orchestrated it and insisted on carrying out the plan who should have been on trial.” (Emphasis added.)
After sitting through weeks of court testimony, Bain said that the jury concluded that “[t]he federal government was absolutely out of control there.”
Janet Reno, the nation’s first female attorney general, approved the FBI’s assault on the Davidians. Previously, during her stint as District Attorney for Dade County, she had convicted a slew of child molesters only to have the cases overturned on appeal:
Before her appointment by Clinton, Reno was district attorney in Dade County. There she catapulted to national attention on the basis of her prosecutions of child sex abusers: the only trouble was that the cases on which she achieved her fame were phony from top to bottom.
The reason was that these all arose from the preschool witch hunts that swept America, as ambitious prosecutors took seriously testimony from small children that was obviously physically impossible and plainly came from coaching. If Reno had ever had children, or even been around them, she might have realized this before becoming one of the many prosecutors who imperiously destroyed countless lives.
When she was Attorney General, the same lack of intellectual rigor popped up again when she was told that the Davidians’ babies were being beaten:
FBI documents uncovered by FRONTLINE confirm that as the Bureau was pressuring Reno to approve the gas plan, someone in the FBI told her that children were being abused at Waco. But the FBI knew that children were not being beaten during the stand-off. (Emphasis added.)
As Abrams tanks driven by FBI agents continually battered the Dravidian’s home, FBI loudspeakers broadcasted endlessly, “This is not an assault.” Evidently, demolishing someone’s home was supposedly no more annoying than a group of kids trick-or-treating on Halloween on their doorstep.
When Attorney General Reno testified to the House about Waco, she was challenged on the FBI’s use of 54-ton tanks to assault the Davidians. Reno moronically replied that the tanks were “not military weapons… I mean it was like a good rent-a-car.”
The media totally ignored Reno’s blithering “rent-a-tank” idiocy and instead praised her resoluteness and fortitude.
Grenade launchers on the tanks fired 400 ferret rounds of CS gas into the Mount Carmel building even though CS tear gas canisters come with a label warning against deployment inside buildings:
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