-Caveat Lector-
http://www.secinfo.com/dxHSu.51w.htm
John C. Danforth has been a Director of the Company since May 1996.
He has been a partner in the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP since 1995. For
more than five years prior to 1995 he was a member of the United States
Senate. Mr. Danforth is a director of Dow Chemical Corporation, Time
Warner, Inc. and General American Life Insurance Company.
http://www.conservative.org/news/he06092000.htm
�And they have not asked me what I think of Jack�they don�t have to!�, said
St. Louis businessman William �Bucky� Bush, brother of former President
George Bush. �The govenor knows how I feel about Jack Danforth. I�ve known
him since I moved to Missouri in the early 1970�s, we have lived fairly
close to one another, and I supported him in all of his campaigns.
�My generation [of Bushes] feels very close to Jack Danforth and his two
brothers, Bill [former chancellor of Washington University] and Don [who
runs the family business]. We worked cheek to jowl when he was an early
supporter ofmy brother George for President in 1988.�
=====
http://www.joplinglobe.com/archives/1999/991121/oped/story3.html
Blunt, when he was secretary of state, became acquainted with the elder Bush
when George Bush was vice president (vice presidents are ex-officio handlers
of courtesy requests).
And he met George W. back when William H.T. �Bucky� Bush of Ladue, brother
and uncle, respectively, of the two Bushes, was GOP state finance chairman.
Uncle Bucky got George W. to appear at Missouri fundraising dinners and golf
tournaments.
===
Note: American General Life Insurance Co. is based in Houston and was a big
investor in the Houston Oil Corp founded by J. H. Kirby, which now makes up
Enron. A large bulk of investors in Kirby's corporations were from St.
Louis, and apparently had family connections to Danforth, whose middle name
is Clagett--as was at least one of its board members at the time the name
changed.
-----Original Message-----
From: MIKE SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:45 PM
Subject: [CTRL] WT: Detonating a Waco fireball
>-Caveat Lector-
>
>http://www.washtimes.com/commentary/20010419-928488.htm
>
>The Washington Times
>April 19, 2001
>
>Detonating a Waco fireball
>
>By James Bovard
>
>April 19 is the eighth anniversary of the final FBI assault on the
>Branch Davidians at Waco, Texas. For almost a decade, politicians
>and bureaucrats have sweated to withhold key information about that
>day´s events from the American public. But the ghost of Waco may be
>rising from the grave once more to place its ice-cold hand again on
>the neck of the Washington establishment.
>
>Back in September 1999, Attorney General Janet Reno handpicked former
>U.S. Sen. John Danforth to finally put the wooden stake in the
>heart of the Waco issue once and for all.
>
>Mr. Danforth, operating supposedly as an independent counsel, did his
>pious best and raced to release his report last summer just as he
>became rumored a top prospect to be Mr. Bush´s vice presidential
>candidate. Mr. Danforth basically exonerated the feds, saving his
>scorn for low-life Americans who dared criticize the government tank
>assault and gassing of the women, children, and men in the Davidians´
>home.
>
>A key issue for Mr. Danforth´s investigation was whether FBI agents
>fired on Davidians during their final attack.
>
>Rhythmic patterns on Forward Looking Infrared ("FLIR") tapes made by
>an FBI plane strongly suggested automatic weapons fire came from
>positions near the FBI tanks. Mr. Danforth persuaded federal Judge
>Walter Smith to conduct a re-enactment last year of the final day´s
>action. Mr. Danforth then proclaimed that the film from the
>re-enactment proved beyond a doubt that federal agents did not shoot
>at Davidians in large part because the muzzle flashes on the
>re-enactment were much shorter than the shots from the April 19,
>1993, tape.
>
>A new film, titled "The F.L.I.R. Project," produced by Mike McNulty
>(one of the masterminds behind the Academy Award 1998 finalist
>documentary, "Waco: Rules of Engagement") reveals fatal flaws in Mr.
>Danforth´s re-enactment. (The film is available at
>http://www.flirproject.com).
>
>On April 19, 1993, FBI agents relied on a commercial, off-the-shelf
>ammo the type that would be used by any hunter or shooter. For the
>March 19, 2000, Danforth-FBI re-enactment, the FBI used
>military-issue ammunition that had a special chemical coating on the
>gunpowder to reduce muzzle flash (helpful in preventing soldiers
>being detected in combat). The military ammo thus had a built-in
>flash suppressant.
>
>Since a key issue was the length of the muzzle flashes, using
>flash-suppressing ammunition ensured that the re-enactment would
>be a farce.
>
>The Danforth-FBI re-enactment further biased the test results by
>having the FBI agents use weapons with a 20-inch barrel instead of
>weapons with 14-inch barrels that agents carried on April 19, 1993.
>The longer a weapon´s barrel, the less muzzle flash will be shown
>from each shot.
>
>Again, this is a tricky way to do an accurate re-enactment.
>But the re-enactment produced the politically correct result and Mr.
>Danforth proceeded to denounce the American people for thinking bad
>things about their federal masters.
>
>No doubt Mr. Danforth, the FBI and others will continue to insist
>there was no gunfire by FBI agents on April 19, 1993. But if the
>feds are innocent, why have they gone to such absurd lengths to fix
>the jury? The $12 million in tax dollars that Mr. Danforth spent
>for his Waco investigation should have been categorized as part of
>the public relations budget of the FBI and Justice Department or
>perhaps as a line item expense in the Clinton Legacy Project.
>
>These revelations come on top of information that has already
>surfaced showing the Danforth investigation to be a sham. Mr.
>Danforth personally chose Vector Data Systems to carry out the tests,
>with U.S. military assistance, and to evaluate the results. Mr.
>Danforth repeatedly identified Vector as independent British company.
>But Vector is actually owned by Anteon, a large American corporation
>that on its Web page boasts of contracts with 50 federal agencies,
>including the White House Communications Agency.
>
>A new book by former federal attorney David Hardy further debunks the
>government´s Waco fairy tale. "This Is Not An Assault" provides
>fascinating inside details on how private investigators squeezed out
>damning information on Waco how federal judge Walter Smith stifled
>lawyers at the trial last year to prevent jurors from learning of
>more than 100 items of evidence embarrassing or potentially
>incriminating the federal government and how Republican congressmen
>(such as Dan Burton) and aides cowered and effectively aided the
>Clinton administration cover-up. Mr. Hardy´s skill in hammering
>federal agencies with Freedom of Information Act requests was a
>decisive factor in making Waco a hot political potato in 1999.
>Mr. Hardy´s book will be soon available at: http://www.xlibris.com.
>
>If President Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft want to restore
>the faith of the American people in the federal government, they must
>open the vaults on Waco. Neither Mr. Bush nor Mr. Ashcroft should
>have any incentive to cover up the outrages of Miss Reno and other
>Clinton administration officials. On the other hand, if Mr. Bush
>and Mr. Ashcroft do not have the will or gumption to force the FBI,
>the ATF, and the Justice Department to come clean about Clinton era
>abuses, what hope can we have of their honesty regarding any abuses
>occurring after Jan. 20?
>
>
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