.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.html From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Waco: Effort To Save FLIR Info Date: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 5:02 AM ============================================ http://dallasnews.com/waco/72560_WACO02.html ============================================ Branch Davidians' lawyer asks judge to impound work of deceased expert Maryland police investigating case of video analyst found dead in office 05/02/2000 By Lee Hancock / The Dallas Morning News The lead lawyer in the Branch Davidians' wrongful death lawsuit asked a federal judge Monday to impound all information relating to the 1993 siege of the sect's compound from a Washington-area office where an infrared expert was found dead last week. Mike Caddell of Houston said he sought emergency intervention from the court in Waco to ensure that all significant information was preserved from the Laurel, Md., office and home of Carlos Ghigliotti. Police were still investigating the cause of Mr. Ghigliotti's death Monday. An official with the Maryland medical examiner's office in Baltimore, where an autopsy was performed over the weekend, said the inquiry remained pending Monday afternoon. Police found Mr. Ghigliotti's decomposed body in his office on Friday after being called by a building manager, who had become concerned that the 42-year-old infrared analyst had not been seen for several weeks. Mr. Ghigliotti gained attention last fall after being hired by the House Government Reform Committee to review an FBI infrared videotape taken on the final day of the Branch Davidian siege. He told The Washington Post that he had determined that repeated flashes on the video came from government gunfire - an assessment that mirrored the analysis of two retired Defense Department experts the sect's lawyers hired. Government officials have said no one on their side fired any shots on April 19, 1993, the day that a federal tear- gas assault ended in a fire that destroyed the compound. More than 80 sect members were killed. British infrared experts retained by the federal court in Waco and the office of special counsel John C. Danforth to conduct a field test to help resolve the issue recently told U.S. District Judge Walter Smith that they believed none of the flashes on the video came from gunfire. Judge Smith told both sides in the case that the British firm, Vector Data Research, would submit its final report on May 8 and would provide "conclusive evidence" linking each flash to a specific cause, such as sunlight reflecting off broken glass. Some other experts, including those retained to help defend the government, had previously said that the flashes on the video were caused by falling debris, sunlight reflecting off objects on the ground or the movement of FBI tanks that were injecting tear gas into the compound that day. But Mr. Caddell and other lawyers representing surviving Branch Davidians and families of those who died have questioned Vector's conclusions, particularly the finding that no people were visible on the infrared video until well after the sect's compound began burning. Mr. Caddell and another lawyer, David T. Hardy of Tucson, Ariz., said Mr. Ghigliotti had recently shown each of them repeated examples of what he said were images of people visible in the vicinity of some of the unexplained flashes that appeared on the film in the hour before the fire. Mr. Caddell wrote Mr. Danforth's office on April 17 and asked investigators to interview Mr. Ghigliotti, saying that the analyst had shown him one particularly compelling image on the video in which the hatch of an FBI armored vehicle "clearly opens, and it appears someone emerges from that tank." Mr. Caddell's letter stated that image appeared as the compound began burning and only seconds before a series of flashes appeared near the same armored vehicle. "I have been trying to reach him for the last few days, but he is apparently out of town," the April 17 letter stated. "In any event, his work is by far the most impressive I have seen in terms of analyzing the April 19 . . . [videotape], and I do not think you can fully appreciate his work unless you visit his lab and spend several hours with him reviewing key points." Mr. Caddell also told the court last month that he planned to hire Mr. Ghigliotti to replace his principal infrared expert, who recently suffered a stroke. "Mr. Ghigliotti's work product on this issue is extremely important to plaintiffs and to the court's analysis and conclusions," Mr. Caddell's Monday motion stated. "Accordingly, plaintiffs seek an order from the court preserving the completeness and integrity of that work product. Without such an order, plaintiffs have no assurances that third parties will not lose, damage or destroy (innocently or intentionally) irreplaceable work product by Mr. Ghigliotti." ============================================ http://dallasnews.com/waco/72560_WACO02.html ============================================ ============================================================ If the axiom "power corrupts" is a reliable axiom, then the Official Story must be suspect on its face. ------------------------------------------------------------ GODDARD'S JOURNAL: http://www.erols.com/igoddard/journal.htm ____________________________________________________________ Asking the "wrong questions," challenging the Official Story Shop for Cars On-Line: http://a-albionic.com/ads/srch.html Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research (POB 20273, Ferndale, MI 48220), a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. 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