-Caveat Lector- Updated: Friday, Oct. 22, 1999 at 22:01 CDT Top leaders invited to film on Waco siege By Karen Brooks Star-Telegram Staff Writer President Clinton, Attorney General Janet Reno, FBI Director Louis Freeh and members of Congress are among the invitees to a Nov. 3 private screening in Washington of Waco: A New Revelation, the movie's director said yesterday. "We don't expect all of them to show up, but they're invited," said Jason Van Vleet of the independent MGA Entertainment in La Porte, Colo. The two-hour documentary is based on work by Fort Collins, Colo.-based researcher Mike McNulty and Van Vleet, the movie's director and producer, on the deadly 1993 siege outside Waco. Van Vleet said investigators who work for John Danforth, who was appointed by Reno to lead an independent investigation, told him they plan to be at the screening. "That's what they've said so far," he said. A 51-day standoff between federal agents and members of the Branch Davidian religious sect at Mount Carmel ended with a deadly conflagration; the bodies of 80 sect members, at least 20 of them children, were found in the remains. Van Vleet and McNulty have become lighting rods for public uproar over the government's handling of the siege. McNulty's previous film, Waco: Rules of Engagement, already had earned him notoriety in Washington. For the latest film, Van Vleet and McNulty interviewed theologians, experts in explosives and infrared imaging, witnesses, survivors, former federal employees, attorneys representing the Branch Davidians, and investigators from federal, state and local agencies. In another development yesterday, a judge set mid-May as the opening date for a trial in the sweeping civil lawsuit filed by Branch Davidians that accuses the federal government of using excessive force during the siege. In his three-page order, U.S. District Judge Walter Smith set jury selection to begin May 15 in the case against FBI sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi, who was in charge of the sniper post outside the Davidians' compound. Horiuchi, who killed the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver during a 1992 standoff in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, has denied firing any shots during the Waco standoff. The remaining claims against the government filed by Davidian survivors and relatives of the dead will be heard in a nonjury trial at the conclusion of Horiuchi's case. This report contains material from The Associated Press. Karen Brooks, (817) 685-3806 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.startext.net/news/doc/1047/1:STATE61/1:STATE61102299.html Bard I know there is a God and I know he hates injustice. I see the storm coming and I know His hand is in it. But if there is a place and a part for me, I believe that I am ready. -- Patrick J. Buchanan http://www.gopatgo.org/ Reform Party News http://www.reformparty.org We don't need a 3rd Party; we need a 2nd Party! The Center for Exposing Corruption in Our Federal Government http://www.xld.com/public/center/center.html "If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." --- Samuel Adams DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance�not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
