-Caveat Lector- Film Resurrects Waco http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495&article=443 Wed Apr 4 12:12:26 2001 Neal Knox Report Film Resurrects Waco By Neal Knox WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 2) — The Danforth Special Counsel investigation of the FBI's final attack on the Branch Davidians at Waco — and Danforth's claim "with 100 percent certainty" that the FBI never fired on Mt. Carmel — seemed to have buried that story forever. It just got resurrected. Maybe. "The FLIR Project" is the third Mike McNulty film about the fire that killed 80 men, women and children April 19, 1993. It examines the "evidence" that caused Danforth to declare that the staccato flashes visible on a Forward Looking InfraRed (FLIR) video are not gunfire, as several prominent infrared experts have claimed. The flashes, which show up as hot spots on heat-sensing infrared film, were captured by an FBI aircraft at the time of the final fire. Special Counsel and former Senator John Danforth (R-Mo.) found that the flashes were merely "reflections" or "glints" from glass or trash, lasting too long to be gunfire. Those seeming gunflashes were among the most damning evidence in the two earlier McNulty films, the award-winning "Waco: The Rules of Engagement" (produced with Dan Gifford) and "Waco: A New Revelation." Sen. Danforth (who professed to be a defender of gun rights until he announced his retirement, when he "courageously" blasted NRA), was appointed by Attorney General Janet Reno to investigate the FLIR evidence. His deputy was former U.S. Attorney Ed Dowd, who had used his office to oppose Missouri's 1999 concealed carry initiative, and is now Danforth's law partner. The Special Counsel's office set up a test at Ft. Hood, near Waco. It would supposedly "exactly replicate" the conditions at Mt. Carmel church in 1993 — same weapons, ammo, and uniforms, and similar climatic conditions and infrared camera, (When such a test was first proposed, Justice Department claimed it would be impossible to exactly duplicate necessary conditions such as the soil temperature; they also falsely claimed the type of FLIR camera used no longer existed and could not be duplicated.) The Ft. Hood test was shot from a British military aircraft using a nearly identical FLIR camera. It clearly showed the heat signatures of people on the ground, unlike the 1993 video, in which no "shooters" can be seen. There was an obvious reason: McNulty's new video reveals that not only was the Ft. Hood test conducted on a 65-degree day, the test area was wet down and covered with a tarp the night before, resulting in even greater temperature differences between soldiers and soil. "The FLIR Project" conducted its own test using a high crane- mounted FLIR camera on an 85-degree morning last September. Wearing the same type IFR-suppressed Army BDU uniforms worn by the FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT) and in the Ft. Hood "replication," McNulty's testers are invisible unless moving. The government claims the Waco FBI FLIR flashes aren't gunfire because they last as much as 133 milliseconds, as measured by the number of video frames, while flashes from military ammo in an M- 16A2 last only 8 milliseconds. As shooters know, the shorter a barrel, the greater the muzzle flash. Propellant in military 5.56 ammo is coated to produce minimum flash in a standard 20-inch barrel M-16A2, the combination used in Danforth's Ft. Hood test. But FBI photos from Waco, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, shows HRT agents carrying CAR-16 or M-4 carbines with 14 1/2-inch barrels. Other FOIA photos show they were carrying Federal commercial ammo. Although the flashes in the FBI FLIR appear to be bursts of full- auto fire, the Ft. Hood tests were fired only semi-auto. "The FLIR Project" test shows that an M-16 with GI ammo produces an almost imperceptible flash, but an M-4 carbine with Federal ammo produces a flash four times longer — though still shorter duration than flashes on the FBI film. However, when testers threw dust into the air to simulate the fine dust resulting from tank treads and the building demolition, the FLIR camera recorded M-4/Federal flashes almost identical to those on the FBI film. McNulty's film shows a frame by frame view of a three-round burst in dust lasting 11 fields of continuous video footage — about 173 milliseconds. That's critical, for duration of the flashes was the "scientific certainty" that Federal Judge Walter Smith cited in dismissing the Davidian survivors' wrongful death lawsuit against the government. Using the wrong gun and ammo in Danforth's Ft. Hood test could have been a simple goof, the 20-degree cooler day could have been a fluke of nature and bad timing, but watering down the test area — cooling the ground and killing the dust — was deliberate. So was the decision to shoot only semi-auto. Danforth's Ft. Hood tests weren't botched; they were rigged. Advance copies of "FLIR Project" are available for $19.95 from 866-688-3547 http://www.NealKnox.com/index.html Why Waco? http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wacopg.htm <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. 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