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The New American August 4, 1997 Insider Report: Rules of Engagement In the recently concluded trial of Timothy McVeigh, prosecutors charged that the defendant carried out his terrorist act because of his obsessive rage over the federal government's deadly 1993 attack on the Branch Davidian sect's Mount Carmel retreat near Waco, Texas. Left-wing media-meisters and Clintonista pols wasted no opportunity to assert that citizens who continue to be legitimately vexed by the government's terrible mishandling (at the very least) of that entire fatal fiasco must be considered "ideational co-conspirators" of McVeigh and dangers to society. Now comes the film team of Dan Gifford and Amy Sommer Gifford with the powerful, two and one-half hour documentary Waco: The Rules of Engagement. The video is discomfiting and alarming many liberals and threatening to upend the complacency many feel toward the growing abuses flowing from the concentration and centralization of police powers in Washington. Since premiering at Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival in January, the riveting exposé has been playing to packed, enthusiastic audiences in select theaters across the country. The film features hard-hitting video and audio footage previously unseen and unheard by the public, together with video coverage of congressional hearings, and forceful commentary by scientists, medical authorities, Texas Rangers, photographers, arson investigators, and survivors of the Branch Davidian conflagration. One of the most disturbing segments of Waco: The Rules of Engagement shows infra-red footage taken by an FBI plane flying above the Davidian compound. The photography, which registers heat, not light, clearly shows gunfire coming from the FBI. Thus the government's insistent claims that "not a single bullet was ever fired" by the FBI during the entire siege are shown to be blatant lies. Waco also compellingly makes the case that it was actions of the FBI-- not the Davidians--that caused the fatal fire. The San Francisco Chronicle called Waco "one of the most disturbing films you'll ever see," "a powerful indictment of bureaucrats' ineptitude, disregard for human life, disrespect for the constitution and flagrant dishonesty." Waco: The Rules of Engagement is expected to be available for home video purchase early this fall. Freeh Admits FBI IS "Dangerous." To those who have seen Waco: The Rules of Engagement, FBI Director Louis Freeh's June 5th testimony before the House Judiciary Committee takes on especially ominous tones. Acknowledging the FBI's many recent black eyes-- Waco, Ruby Ridge, Richard Jewell, the FBI crime lab, etc.--Freeh, who is a former federal prosecutor and federal judge, confessed: "We are potentially the most dangerous agency in the country if we are not scrutinized carefully." © 1997 The New American

 



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