Msg#: 11 Date: 10-09-93 23:37 To: All Mark: Subj: waco treasury report ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ

  Msg#: 11                                           Date: 10-09-93  23:37
  From: Richard Sanford                              Read: Yes    Replied: No 
    To: All                                          Mark:                     
  Subj: waco treasury report
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
I got the Treasury Department report on the Waco massacre
by calling the Government Printing Office at 202-783-3238
and letting them charge my credit card $33 for the report
and $8.50 FedEx shipping.  Two slower, cheaper shipping
arrangements are First Class Mail (3 1/4 pounds on the
bathroom scale); and free, which takes about a month.

The report seems to be a continuation of the cover-up.
I had heard that audio tapes of the start of the BATF
raid were triangulated to determine where the first shots
were fired from, and that a Federal judge had placed the
tapes under the protection of the FBI.  Treasury makes
no mention of any such tapes or triangulation.

The treasury report says that "Gunfire from inside the
compound burst through the door.  The force of the gunfire
was so great that the door bowed outward."  But in the
October 1993 issue of Soldier of Fortune, Jack Zimmermann,
who had an opportunity to examine the hollow metal front
doors before the fire, commented that the BATF must have
been firing blindly *in* through them.  Even the fire and
the tanks should have left the doors readable as to which
way the bullets were going, but the report says nothing.

The report does not say who gave the order to commence
firing, or why.  It does not comment on media reports that
a BATF agent had given a statement that he had accidentally 
discharged his weapon as he came out of the truck.
Zimmermann speculates that the accidental shot may have 
been mistaken for the signal to open fire, but the report is
silent on this.

Although it complains about TV reporters on the scene, the
report totally ignores the existance of videotape evidence
from the raid.  It makes no mention of friendly-fire casualties,not even the 
one where the agent is videotaped shooting himself in the 
leg while climbing the right-hand ladder.  It makes no 
mention of the speculation that most, or perhaps all, of 
the dead BATF agents were victims of "friendly fire".  In 
describing the wounds of its own agents, the treasury 
report just says "Gunshot" or "Shrapnel".  In describing 
the wounds of "CULT MEMBERS KILLED BY ATF", they specify 
the bullets as 9 MM
Hydroshock, or unknown (not recovered).  So how many bullets removed from 
dead or wounded ATF agents were the same type their 
comrades were firing?  The report doesn't say.

More when I get through this 500-or-so page document.


            ==============================================
                          Another file from
                           The Soapbox BBS
                    "Your Infotainment Specialist"
                 An all text BBS dedicated to e-zines
                     and other unique text files.
                (919) 387-1152 - Up to 16.8 kbs - 8N1
             Fidonet 1:151/142 - FREQ FILES for file list
            ===============================================