Boca
Governor
but here's the rest of story regarding Waco. I didn't want to go into it then since it would be difficult for readers to sort it all out. Let alone for me to write it.
It all started when someone, maybe a postal worker, reported to the County Sheriff his suspicion that the Branch Davidian people may be building, or possibly have illegal weapons. Whether or not the Sheriff took any action, it ended up before a judge who signed a search warrant. It was not a "no knock" warrant. Those are generally issued in drug cases where the evidence could quickly be flushed down the toilet. This was a normal "announce yourself" warrant to be conducted by the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agents.
The seige began when a Branch Davidian out for a walk reported back to David Koresh that dozens of ATF vehicles and agents were coming. Far more than needed to serve the warrant. (As I recall it was 37 vehicles, somewhat like the Roger Stone takedown.) That's when they got stupid. Instead of "announcing themselves" they shot dogs in a nearby pen! Koresh naturally took that to mean the fight was on. Most likely he was the one who fired a rifle through the door that wounded or killed one of the agents. At the end 4 agents were killed and several of the Davidians.
The seige was on and lasted several weeks. Bill Clinton, only in office for a few weeks himself, was looking weak and feckless, not good, or at least Hillary felt so because she took action.
As a lawyer she understood possee comitatus the 1878 Act updated in 1981 that prohibits military intervention in law enforcement situations. She also knew that the 1981 update included exceptions for certain drug related activities...drug cartels on our border that might require military action.
So, she sent her White House Counseler Vince Foster to meet with Bernard Nussbaum, Bill's Counselor in the Oval Office to advise him about possee comitatus and the exceptions.
Next thing you know an IFR helicopter scan of the compound revealed a heat source. Not particularly surprising at that time of the year, but enough to go to a judge claiming it was meth lab.
Bingo, a new warrant signed off on, sufficient enough apparently to ask for military help. Forget the illegal firearms warrant.
Now let's jump past the inferno. Vince Foster committed suicide exactly 90 days later. And at the time there were many reports of Nussbaum and Hillary rifling through Foster's office searching for something? Perhaps a suicide note?
It all started when someone, maybe a postal worker, reported to the County Sheriff his suspicion that the Branch Davidian people may be building, or possibly have illegal weapons. Whether or not the Sheriff took any action, it ended up before a judge who signed a search warrant. It was not a "no knock" warrant. Those are generally issued in drug cases where the evidence could quickly be flushed down the toilet. This was a normal "announce yourself" warrant to be conducted by the Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms agents.
The seige began when a Branch Davidian out for a walk reported back to David Koresh that dozens of ATF vehicles and agents were coming. Far more than needed to serve the warrant. (As I recall it was 37 vehicles, somewhat like the Roger Stone takedown.) That's when they got stupid. Instead of "announcing themselves" they shot dogs in a nearby pen! Koresh naturally took that to mean the fight was on. Most likely he was the one who fired a rifle through the door that wounded or killed one of the agents. At the end 4 agents were killed and several of the Davidians.
The seige was on and lasted several weeks. Bill Clinton, only in office for a few weeks himself, was looking weak and feckless, not good, or at least Hillary felt so because she took action.
As a lawyer she understood possee comitatus the 1878 Act updated in 1981 that prohibits military intervention in law enforcement situations. She also knew that the 1981 update included exceptions for certain drug related activities...drug cartels on our border that might require military action.
So, she sent her White House Counseler Vince Foster to meet with Bernard Nussbaum, Bill's Counselor in the Oval Office to advise him about possee comitatus and the exceptions.
Next thing you know an IFR helicopter scan of the compound revealed a heat source. Not particularly surprising at that time of the year, but enough to go to a judge claiming it was meth lab.
Bingo, a new warrant signed off on, sufficient enough apparently to ask for military help. Forget the illegal firearms warrant.
Now let's jump past the inferno. Vince Foster committed suicide exactly 90 days later. And at the time there were many reports of Nussbaum and Hillary rifling through Foster's office searching for something? Perhaps a suicide note?
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