On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Mike McNally wrote:
Why don't they just be done with it and declare martial law?
Be patient. They're working on it. bd Reuters, 8/1/96: FBI Director Louis Freeh warned Congress on Thursday that the United States was under attack from foreign terrorists and said new counter-terrorism weapons were needed to fight back. ... On the Atlanta bomb that caused two deaths and wounded 111 people, he said the FBI had no evidence "of an international terrorist group or a sophisticated group targeting the Olympics in general with respect to that incident." But he said the United States was clearly vulnerable to possible future terrorist attacks involving nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. He said he had recently met Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Charles Krulak to discuss a possible joint FBI-Marine study on ways of countering weapons of mass destruction. ...