oppose nomination of John Ashcroft

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Sat Jan 20 06:00:25 PST 2001


Reno probably didn't expect the situation to, um, blow up in her face.

It is also undisputed that if they wanted to avoid a show of force, they 
could have nabbed Koresh during his jogs around the property line or 
whatnot in the morning. Reese, you blather too much.

-Declan


At 09:19 PM 1/19/01 -1000, Reese wrote:
>At 11:54 PM 1/19/01 -0500, Declan McCullagh wrote:
> >On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:32PM -1000, Reese wrote:
> >> Then why were the troops laying siege to the compound, instead of
> >> snatching koresh when he made one of his frequent trips into town?
> >
> >Because sometimes a show of force is perceved as necessary.
>
>oh geez.  Why was it necessary to bring in tanks, special forces and
>gunships for overflights?  Why, when if all they wanted was koresh,
>all they had to do was wait for him to go to town again, and snatch
>him off the street as he walked down the sidewalk?
>
>Who benefited from this "necessary" show of how forcefully Reno et al.
>could burn wooden buildings with people inside them?  Yeah-yeah, the
>evidence is contested, re: who started the fires.  What isn't contested
>is the armored vehicles poking gun muzzles through the walls.
>
>Reese
>





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