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WORLD NET DAILY Thursday August 05 1999 Silence on Waco evidence By Jon E. Dougherty
In case you haven't heard, the evidence I'm talking about was first chronicled in the Dallas Morning News over a week ago. It seems as though the chairman of the Texas Department of Public Safety -- the Texas Rangers -- has evidence that solidly refutes the federal government's version of events that took place against members of the Branch Davidian religious group. The evidence includes key interdepartmental federal law enforcement memos, thermal imaging reports, and an examination of video evidence by an analyst from the National Reconnaissance Office. Specifically, the evidence: Establishes a belief among many within the government that if the Feds get away with what they did at Waco, the rule of law will suffer the most. Supports earlier claims made by independent reporters that FLIR (Forward Looking Infrared) imagery examined by noted expert Dr. Edward F. Allard indeed shows federal agents firing automatic weapons at fleeing Davidians. Shows the FBI admitting in a report that federal automatic weapons fire during the final assault on the Davidian community originated from a position designated as "Sierra One." Shows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms admitting in a memo that three ATF agents went on a friendly shooting trip with Davidian leader David Koresh just nine days before the initial ATF assault. Establishes that explosive canisters of a flammable nature were used repeatedly during the initial phases of the assault. There is also evidence that the initial federal judge in the case, district court Judge Walter Smith, has done everything in his power to accommodate the government's cover-up. Judge Smith has sentenced Davidian survivors for offenses the jury did not convict them of, prevented some verdicts from casting any doubt on the government's "official explanation" of what happened at Waco, and prevented survivors from being available to the media to tell their stories. And now that Judge Smith has a number of Waco-related wrongful death suits in his court, he is doing his best to throw out or block most of them and to exclude as much evidence as possible. It reminds me of the McVeigh trial. While all of this is going on -- the makings of a gargantuan scandal -- I have to ask where are the mainstream media crews? Where are the CNN cameras documenting every second of this ballooning scandal -- in the same manner they documented every second of the Waco showdown over six years ago? Why aren't Dan Rather and Tom Brokaw parked outside Judge Smith's courtroom, giving viewers a minute-by-minute live analysis of this enormous breaking story? Where's the "60 Minutes" crew or the "Nightline" documentary? Why are the major news web sites more interested in polling Americans about gun control and how they feel about the passing of JFK Jr. than reporting the obvious discrepancies in the federal government's version of events at Waco? It makes me sick to hear these people call themselves reporters. The major media players have been handed this story on a silver platter, but still they ignore it. Back when independent filmmakers and producers dug up all the evidence the Texas Rangers now claim to have, they were discounted as "kooks," "weirdos," "right-wing conspirators," and losers with an ax to grind against Clinton and Reno. That assessment was, of course, erroneous, but now it's beside the point. This time the vaunted Texas Rangers are making the same claims. How much more reputable can you get? How much more substantiated can this story be? And yet, it continues to be ignored. By "choosing" not to report this breaking news, editors at the majors are becoming co-conspirators in the government's crime against the Davidians. That makes them worse than worthless as news agencies -- it makes them just as guilty as the federal agents who pulled the triggers on their assault rifles when they "bravely" gunned down women and children trying to escape the flames consuming their homes. And it makes them just as guilty as the people who ordered these agents to do what they did. Isn't it odd how the mainstream press made the deaths of women and children at the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City more important than the deaths of Davidian women and children? I guess Davidian women and children deserved to die because they were "right wing extremists." I guess the FBI had every right to use automatic assault weapons to gun them down -- unarmed -- as they fled a fire started by the government in the first place. That must be what the mainstream media crowd thinks because they sure aren't interested in the truth about Waco. Jon E. Dougherty is a senior writer and columnist for WorldNetDaily, as well as a morning co-host of Daybreak America.
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The mainstream press groupies are ignoring startling new evidence about
the federal government's assault on the Branch Davidian community in
Waco, Texas, in 1993.