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THE WASHINGTON TIMES August 4, 1999 The Waco Coverup Begins to Unravel Lawyers and investigators involved in the wrongful suits say they have powerful evidence that the federal government is guilty of criminal assault, criminal negligence, and reckless endangerment By Paul Craig Roberts
Mr. Francis wants to turn the evidence over to federal district court Judge Walter Smith. The U.S. Department of Justice is trying to block the Texas Rangers from releasing the evidence. Mr. Francis says that the Rangers have "some evidence that the world needs to see, in my opinion. The government does not want this evidence out, and yet, that's not right." Mr. Francis added: "It is a complete stonewall." The Texas Rangers should not trust Judge Smith with the evidence. Judge Smith presided over the trial of the Waco survivors. He has been strongly denounced by the jury foreman and jury members for misleading the jury in order to sentence the survivors. The jury foreman has repeatedly criticized Judge Smith for sentencing the survivors for offenses for which the jury did not convict. Judge Smith deceived the jury to oblige the Justice Department. By handing down long sentences that the jury did not intend, Judge Smith prevented the verdict from casting doubt on the government's explanation of what happened at Waco and prevented the survivors from being available to the media to tell their stories. Judge Smith is also presiding over the large number of wrongful death civil suits brought by relatives of the Waco dead against the federal government. In order to protect the government, Judge Smith has been endeavoring to throw out and block most of the suits and to exclude as much evidence as possible. Lawyers and investigators involved in the wrongful suits tell me that they have powerful evidence that the federal government is guilty of criminal assault, criminal negligence, and reckless endangerment. The evidence of wrongful death is partly the work of seasoned investigators like Gordon Novel, and persistent attorneys such as David Hardy, who succeeded in forcing release of information through the Freedom of Information Act. But some important evidence appears to have leaked from government officials sickened by the federal massacre and cover-up.
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On July 27, the chairman of the Texas Department of Public Safety, James
B. Francis Jr., told the Dallas Morning News that evidence in possession
of the Texas Rangers calls into question the federal government's
account of the deadly federal assault and subsequent fire that claimed
the lives of scores of men, women and children in the Branch Davidian
compound in Waco, Texas, in 1993.