-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Rich Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Danforth reportedly targets Waco siege whistleblower Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 1:07 AM From the Home of Rich & Peggy Martin Grand Prairie, TX 75050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice. _______________________________________________ INTRODUCTORY COMMENTARY This was a long time coming, but surely it was expected. The Special Persecutor appointed by Janet Reno to investigate the govt misdeeds at Waco has finally shed his skin and is going after his real target, one of the few remaining honorable men involved in the massacre of the Davidians. Hitler/Stalin couldn't be any more cunning. After seeing how the govt even eats it's own when they get out of line, does anyone believe that had Koresh lived that he would have gotten a fair trial (in front of govt stooge Smith)? Rich Martin Editor of Slick ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Subj: Danforth reportedly targets Waco siege whistleblower Date: 8/31/2000 9:14:13 PM Central Daylight Time From: <A HREF="mailto:WacoTragedy News">WacoTragedy News</A> A few of us had a running debate about who Danforth's team was going to go after. I totally believed it was Johnston, others believed it was the husband and wife team. The government detests whistle blowers... prepare for battle Bill. ~Sharlene~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://dallasnews.com/latestnews/160192_waco_01tex.html Danforth reportedly targets Waco siege whistleblower 08/31/2000 By Lee Hancock / The Dallas Morning News The former prosecutor who warned last year of a possible cover-up of federal actions in the Branch Davidian siege has been told he is being targeted for prosecution by Waco Special Counsel John C. Danforth. Friends and associates of former assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Johnston say he has been told by the special counsel's office that he will soon be indicted on charges ranging from obstruction of justice to making false statements to federal investigators. They say he has been told that the charges stem from his withholding of several pages of personal, pretrial notes from the 1994 federal prosecution of surviving Branch Davidians. They say that Mr. Johnston's action was a mistake driven by his concern that his notes would be misused by others in the U.S. attorney's office who were angry about his public criticism of the Justice Department's handling of the Waco tragedy. Mr. Johnston declined to comment Thursday, referring questions to his criminal defense attorney. The lawyer, Michael Kennedy of New York City, released a brief written statement Thursday confirming that the Waco special counsel has threatened Mr. Johnston with federal indictments in both Texas and St. Louis. "This law office and Mr. Johnston believe that he was unfairly targeted for his frequent criticism of the U.S. government and for blowing the whistle on the government's efforts to mislead the public about the government's use of pyrotechnic devices against the Branch Davidians," said Mr. Kennedy, whose past clients include New York socialite Ivana Trump and Whitewater target Susan McDougal. Officials with Mr. Danforth's office in St. Louis declined to comment Thursday. But Mr. Johnston's friends and former law enforcement associates in Waco say they already are rallying support for the embattled former prosecutor, starting a legal defense fund for what is expected to be an aggressive court battle. "We've got a group together. We're raising money. I'm spending most of my time today working on calling on some people with deep pockets," said David Smith, a former Waco city manager. "We're ready to fight 'em. I think that they're going to find that this community is 100 percent behind Bill." Several Waco officials said U.S. District Judge Walter S. Smith Jr. was so dismayed by reports of the special counsel's treatment of Mr. Johnston that he told Mr. Danforth's investigators last week that they could no longer carry firearms into the Waco federal courthouse and would be allowed only the access to the building given to the general public. Judge Smith, who has presided over all of the litigation arising from the 1993 Davidian standoff, has declined to comment. But other officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said two investigators for Mr. Danforth who had previously officed in the courthouse have not returned since the judge told them he had ended his court's cooperation with Mr. Danforth's inquiry and said he considered their actions against Mr. Johnston a witchhunt. Mr. Johnston was part of a team of five assistant U.S. attorneys and Justice Department lawyers who prosecuted survivors of the 51-day siege, which began with a gunfight in which four federal agents died. The shootout started when agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tried to search the Branch Davidians' compound and arrest leader David Koresh on firearms charges. The siege ended on April 19, 1993, with a fire that consumed the compound with Mr Koresh and more than 80 followers inside. The case regained public attention in summer 1999 after a former FBI official told The Dallas Morning News that bureau agents had fired at least two tear gas grenades capable of sparking fires on the last day of the siege. Justice Department officials initially ridiculed the allegation but then were forced to acknowledge that pyrotechnic devices had been used during the FBI's final tank and tear gas assault on the sect's embattled building. Mr. Johnston wrote Attorney General Janet Reno exactly one year ago Wednesday to warn her that some of her subordinates within the Justice Departments may have withheld evidence from her and the public about the FBI's use of pyrotechnic grenades. Ms. Reno had expressly ordered FBI commanders not to use anything that might spark a fire when they assaulted the Branch Davidians' compound on April 19, 1993, with tanks and tear gas. Shortly after the controversy broke, Ms. Reno appointed Mr. Danforth as a special counsel. She asked him to review government actions in the standoff and determine why government officials had so long denied that the FBI had used anything capable of sparking fires. Mr. Johnston went public shortly after sending Ms. Reno a written warning. He said in late August 1999 he felt compelled to speak out after being shown 6-year-old documents setting out how FBI agents fired at least two military gas grenades capable of sparking fires. The documents suggested that Mr. Johnston had been present when FBI agents discussed their use of the devices. Those discussions took place in meetings with federal prosecutors preparing the criminal case against surviving sect members. Mr. Johnston said he decided to go public and warn Ms. Reno because he believed the documents had been sent to him by other prosecutors to stop his efforts to help the Texas Rangers catalog and identify shell casings from the standoff that some government critics alleged were pyrotechnic government munitions. Mr. Johnston resigned from the U.S. attorney's office in February, ending a 17-year career as a federal prosecutor. But his friends in Waco said he continued to be summoned for questioning by investigators for Mr. Danforth, who twice brought him before a federal grand jury. In a particularly grueling three-day interrogation in St. Louis last month, friends said, Mr. Johnston was even warned that he could expect to be indicted if an article on his Davidian ordeal being prepared for publication in Texas Monthly ever appeared in print. The article, titled "Law's good soldier," appeared in the September issue as part of the magazine's annual issue on the state's 20 most influential Texans. "How they treated him was a disgrace," said Carey Hobbs, a friend of Mr. Johnston's who owns a Waco manufacturing plant and is assisting in his legal defense fund. "People here who know the details are just livid. You meet somebody and talk to 'em' about it, and tears run down the cheeks of grown men." 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