Well, Ed Wolfe and Dick Reavis did warn us about this probability a while
ago. Anybody who has any doubts about the flashes being gunfire should see
"Waco: A New Revelation." It is outstanding. Gavin.
Report: Agents Didn't Fire at Waco
Waco Re-Enactment Looks Like Set-up
By Ed Wolfe - Webslinger of Sierra Times.com
February 19, 2000
The federal government is sick and tired of defending it's
actions in Waco and has agreed to perform a re-enactment of the
final events leading to the end of the 51 day siege on the Mt.
Carmel complex on April 19th, 1993. Federal Judge Walter Smith,
(Clinton appointee) has decided on a re-enactment which is
tentatively scheduled to take place on March 18th or 19th of this
year at Fort Hood, Texas.
Judge Smith is currently presiding over a wrongful death lawsuit
filed against the government by surviving members of the 7th Day
Adventist sect commonly known as the Branch Davidians.
The purpose of the re-enactment is to settle the issue of whether
or not FBI agents fired at the house and the survivors on the
last day of the siege. Critics of the government claim that house
occupants fleeing from the mysterious fire ran directly into the
gunfire of FBI agents instead of the relative safety they sought.
The government maintains that not only did it's agents not shoot
the survivors, but that they never even fired their weapons on
that final, tragic day.
Special Counsel, John Danforth, former Republican Senator from
Missouri has been investigating the incident at Mt.Carmel and is
credited with bringing about the re-enactment, which both sides
hope will prove their case. However, anyone with average
intelligence has to be curious about a few facts regarding the
interpretation of the test results.
According to the St. Louis Dispatch, John Danforth recommended to
Judge Smith that a "British" company called Vector Data Systems
should be the one to conduct the test and to interpret the
results. VDS is reported to have former Royal Air Force pilots in
it's employ, to be experts at interpreting infrared images, and
most significantly, to be an "independent" expert that both the
government and the Davidian lawyers can count on for impartial
analysis.
This is where something stinks in St. Louis.
Vector Data Systems is not a British company, and as far as this
writer can determine, never was. Although it may have RAF pilots
in it's employ, that would probably be due to the fact that VDS
has branches in the United Kingdom, Australia and Korea in
addition to it's headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The
company was purchased in 1997 as one of the first in a string of
information technology acquisitions by the Anteon Corporation.
Anteon Corporation, head-quartered in Fairfax, VA is not a
British company either. Although it's possible that Anteon will
be using it's British subsidiary of Vector Data Systems to
conduct the test and interpret it's results, it is misleading to
simply state that the independent expert is "a British company."
Even more interesting is the fact that Danforth who is supposed
to be seeking the truth, picked an unusual company to serve as
the "impartial" arbiter of the test results. The Anteon
Corporation is a very high tech, multi-million dollar company
that gets a large share of it's profits from federal government
contracts.
And we're not talking about the British government either. Just
last month Anteon signed a 2.2 million dollar deal with the
General Services Administration to provide program management
analyses and assessments for the United States submarine force.
In December of last year, Anteon scored another $10 mil from the
government till in a deal with the Veterans Health
Administration. Two months before that, Anteon signed a 7.8
million dollar contract with the U.S. Coast Guard. September was
another lucrative month resulting in a $43 million dollar
contract with the U.S. Navy. Finally, topping the list is a $250
million dollar Blanket Purchase Agreement with the GSA to provide
the federal government with critical infrastructure service as
ordered in Presidential Decision Directive #63, penned by Bill
Clinton on May 28, 1998.
PDD #63 calls for the following:
"...strengthening of the nation's defenses against emerging
unconventional threats to critical infrastructures, the physical
and cyber-based systems essential to the functioning of the
United States economy and the government. These include essential
government services, information and communications, banking and
finance, energy, transportation, water supply, public health, law
enforcement, and emergency services."
Anteon, the parent company of Vector Data Systems, will provide
services and products in the following areas: critical
infrastructure asset identification; vulnerability and threat
assessment; readiness and contingency planning; physical
infrastructure protection; cyber security and information
assurance; and emergency preparedness training, exercises, and
simulation.
(Apparently Anteon is the contractor responsible for protecting
us and the government from the recent internet attacks.)
This is the independent "British" company that Special Counsel
John Danforth recommended and that Federal Judge Walter Smith
appointed to conduct the tests to try to determine whether or not
the government fired upon the Davidians during the end of the 51
day siege.
Danforth told ABC's "This Week" that his mission in this
investigation is to determine if there was a government cover-up
regarding the government's activities at Mt. Carmel. Then he
suggests to the judge presiding over the Davidian lawsuit to use
Vector Data Systems.
What kind of judge would agree that VDS (or Anteon) could
possibly be impartial when it functions primarily as a government
contractor? Upon further investigation, such a decision by Judge
Smith is not surprising at all in light of his previous
questionable actions while presiding over the criminal charges
against the Davidian survivors.
According to Jack DeVault, author of "The Waco Whitewash," Judge
Smith not only did away with the Voire Dire (jury selection by
opposing attorneys) but he illegally sent a questionnaire to 300
potential jurors to weed out any that might be favorable to the
defendants. The Judge told potential jurors that answering the
questionnaire was not voluntary according to federal law. And yet
Title 28 of the U.S. Code, Section 1869 indicates that it was the
judge who was in violation of federal law.
Some of the questions Judge Smith asked the potential jurors
were:
27. What are your leisure time activities, interests or hobbies?
28. What is your religious affiliation or preference? (a) How
often to you attend church, temple or other service? (b) How
important would you say religion is in your life?
46. Have you or your spouse ever owned any type of firearm?
If yes, for what purpose do you own a firearm?
47. Have you ever handled a firearm?
If yes, when? For what purpose?
49. Have you ever attended a gun show?
If yes, how many times?
50. Have you ever belonged to the National Rifle Association or
any other organization that is concerned with protecting the
right to own weapons?
51. Do you believe that persons besides law enforcement officers
should be permitted to own firearms?
75. Do you belong to any organization that advocates jury
nullification or advocates that members of the jury ignore the
law given to you by the Judge?
These questions make sense when you consider that the entire
reason for the BATF's visit to Mt. Carmel was because it was
suspected that David Koresh failed to pay a tax on some of his
firearms.
Of the 300 people sent questionnaires, 269 of them sent back
responses. From those, Judge Smith hand-picked 84 to be the pool
from which the attorneys could now select the jury and
alternates.
So it may come as no surprise that this same man appointed as an
impartial arbiter a beneficiary of multi-million dollar
government contracts and Blanket Purchase Agreements.
Will VDS/Anteon live up to the job of judging it's employer?
We'll have to wait for the test results after they are first
given to the government, and then released to the public only
after the conclusion of the wrongful death suit.
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<< Report: Agents Didn't Fire at Waco
ST. LOUIS (AP) - A simulation of the deadly 1993 Branch Davidian siege showed
that flashes caught on videotape were most likely sunlight reflecting off
debris, not government gunfire as claimed in a wrongful death lawsuit,
according to a preliminary report.
Vector Data Systems, the British firm that conducted the March 19 simulation
at an Army base in Texas, submitted its report earlier this month to U.S.
District Judge Walter Smith Jr., who is presiding over the Branch Davidian
lawsuit, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Saturday, citing unidentified
informed sources.
Vector found that flashes produced by sunlight reflecting off debris lasted
considerably longer than flashes produced by gunfire, the newspaper said.
That finding would support the government's claim that similar flashes seen
on a 1993 infrared tape of the siege were the result of sunlight reflecting
off the crumbling complex, not gunfire.
But an attorney for Branch Davidian survivors and relatives, Michael Caddell,
insists he does not have to prove government gunfire caused the deaths of
more than 80 members of the sect.
Caddell says he plans to show the government was negligent in not having fire
equipment at the 1993 siege that ended in a deadly blaze at the compound
outside Waco, Texas. And he said his own experts will contradict the
conclusion that the flashes were reflections.
The fire started several hours into an FBI operation intended to end a 51-day
siege. The government has long contended the Davidians themselves set fire to
the retreat and caused their own deaths, whether by fire or gunshots.
Vector was hired to conduct the test by Special Counsel John Danforth who was
appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno to oversee an independent
investigation into the standoff and fire.
Danforth's appointment followed revelations that the FBI, contradicting a
position it had taken for six years, used potentially incendiary devices on
the last day of the standoff.
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