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Typical Clinton justice. The whisleblower did it.
Federal Indictment in Waco Probe
NewsMax.com Wires
Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000
ST. LOUIS (UPI) - Special Counsel John C. Danforth announced
Wednesday the indictment of a former assistant U.S. attorney
accused of hampering his investigation into the government's
conduct in the 1993 Branch Davidian standoff near Waco, Texas.
William Johnston, who resigned in January as a federal
prosecutor in Waco, was charged in a five-count indictment
returned Wednesday by a federal grand jury. He was charged with
obstructing the investigation and making false statements to
investigators.
The indictment was revealed in the final report of Danforth,
appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno last year to investigate
behavior of government officials on April 19, 1993, the final day
of the 51-day siege when more than 80 Davidians died during a
fire.
Danforth restated conclusions in his July 21 interim report that
government agents did not start the fire, shoot at the Davidians,
improperly use the military or engage in a cover-up.
He said there was no evidence of any wrongdoing by Reno or other
high officials.
Danforth said the responsibility for the deaths rested with
Davidian leader David Koresh, who died during the fire.
Responsibility also lay with several of his followers, who shot
and killed four federal agents, later burned the complex and shot
at least 20 of their own people, including five children,
Danforth said.
Reno was prompted to appoint Danforth because of allegations
that government officials covered up the fact that the FBI
Hostage Rescue Team had fired three pyrotechnic tear gas rounds
four hours before the fire, possibly igniting the inferno.
Danforth said there was no "widespread conspiracy" to cover up
the use of the tear gas rounds, which he said did not cause the
fire. He said government officials did not disclose the
information because they legitimately did not know they were
used.
Danforth said some members of the Justice Department team that
prosecuted Davidians in a 1994 criminal case knew about the
pyrotechnic rounds and wrongly chose not to disclose the
information to defense lawyers, Congress, and others in the
Justice Department.
Johnston was one of those federal prosecutors and was
investigated because his notes on a 1994 pretrial meeting, in
which the use of pyrotechnic tear gas grenades was discussed,
were found to be missing. He later denied knowledge of the
meeting, according to the Waco Tribune-Herald.
Johnston's attorneys contend he was "unfairly targeted" because
he criticized the government for covering up information about
the grenades for years. He resigned in January after writing a
letter to Reno, warning her of the cover-up within the agency.
Copyright 2000 by United Press International. All rights reserved.
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