According to Janet Reno, the FBI did not have enough people in their Hostage Rescue (squad fire) Team to wait out the Branch Dividends. That is, the FBI got tired of being there after 50 straight days and wanted to end it.

So, to insure a situation like that would not happen again, Janet Reno planned for at least six more FBI squad fire teams -- one for each of six designated geographical regions. The HRT members routinely refer to the regions as "war zones."

This is all very hush, hush, top-secret stuff at Justice, but some say FBI can now field about 300 well trained warriors. And that, without using (hardly any) active military people.

Except, these actually are almost active military people. That is, they train with military special operations groups, eat with military special operations groups, dress like military special operations groups, and so on. Their pay check is cut from a different federal office. That is the only distinction.

Oh, and they also have use of a Special Operations classified Army aviation unit used almost exclusively for covert missions; which is conveniently based next to the Quantico FBI Academy. And that area just happens to be, also coincidentally, where the military trains certain types of covert special operations people.

So, we went looking for training manuals. One reasonably adequate one is at:

http://earthops.org/sovereign/urban_warfare This is FM 90-10, titled "Military Operations on Urbanized Terrain (MOUT)." In Army-speak, it is about "those military actions planned and conducted on a terrain complex where manmade construction impacts on the tactical options available to commanders."

We found Appendix G: "How To Attack And Clear Buildings," quite interesting because it seems to describe the actions of those many military practice attacks carried out on urban areas around the country over the past couple years. Interestingly enough, it also diagrams the methods the BATF tried to use at Waco.

For instance, the first instruction is: "Shoot Door Open."

When the door is open, the next instruction is: "Toss Grenade." However, "avoid, unless absolutely necessary." Because, "throwing grenades at upper windows or upstairs; they may bounce back. Use grenades before entering the building, basement, and all rooms. Vigorously throw grenades into rooms so they carom about, denying the enemy an opportunity to throw them back."

OK. So, now they get to go into the room:

Enter Firing and Search Room. Use automatic fire when entering and clearing a room. Do not open doors by hand or attempt to kick them open. Shoot the door open by firing several rounds through the lock or blow the door in with explosives. In buildings with lightly constructed interior walls/floors use M16 and M60 fires to clear rooms by firing through walls, ceilings, and floors. M60 machineguns with their heavier bullet are very effective in this role.

Then the manual admonishes: "Vary Techniques of Clearing Room. Avoid set patterns of clearing; vary entry methods from room to room and floor to floor."

So, that's how the FBI Hostage "Rescue" squads are trained. Well, that and sniping -- killing from a distance.

Various styles of this training have also become popular with State and local police department SWAT teams throughout the country. One informative study on the topic was recently released by the Cato Institute: "Warrior Cops, the Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments," by Diane Cecilia Weber. http://www.cato.org/pubs/briefs/bp50.pdf

The Cato report states that there are at least 459 major SWAT teams around the country, half the personnel of which were trained by the military. Worse, most are equipped with all sorts of military weapons (even Army tanks), compliments of the federal government.

"SWAT team members undergo rigorous training similar to that given military special operations units," the report says. And, "SWAT teams are taking on the warrior mentality of our military's special forces."

So, with all those well trained attack teams out on the street, it should be no surprise that "SWAT teams have a strong incentive to expand their original 'emergency' mission into more routine policing activities to justify their existence."

The problem is, police officers are not supposed to be warriors. The military are trained to apply maximum force to kill people and break things. Police are supposed to apprehend suspects using the minimum possible force and observing the suspect's Constitutional rights. These are not compatible tasks.

Because of this warrior mentality, many people are killed each year by SWAT teams. It's time to take all their Army toys away and make them cops again.

Meanwhile, look over the Texas Ranger report on the extent of military ordnance used at Waco

http://www.txdps.state.tx.us/ and see just how bad the warrior police mentality has become. Then, find some authority in the Constitution for the federal government to use these paramilitary special operations units on American citizens.

It ain't there.

Madam Speaker, in 1993, 86 civilians were killed in Waco , Texas. Twenty-four of them were innocent children. Most of them burned to death. Until this day, no one knows the truth about Waco, and the reason is quite clear. The FBI lied and the Attorney General of the United States lied. They lied and they covered it up. And after all of these lies, no one, nobody, has been held accountable for the massacre at Waco.

So said Rep. Traficant (D-OH) to the House on September 8, 1999.

So, the Washington insiders decided they would hire John C. Danforth, former Senator and Washington insider, to investigate. The Justice Department and FBI can't be trusted to investigate themselves, so a politician gets the gig.

And, being a politician, the first order of business for Danforth was to get on every Sunday morning TV talk show to tell America that he is not going to talk about the investigation until it's over.

Oh, and Danforth also wanted to inform us what his "independent" investigation would investigate. He said he would be looking at "bad acts" not "bad judgment." He said he would be looking for the "dark questions" of whether government agents started the fire at the compound in Waco, whether agents fired the bullets that killed members of the sect and whether the government covered up information.

However, it was off camera that Danforth made the most important statements. For instance, he will not try to answer questions of motive such as: Why did the ATF initiate the confrontation of the Davidians in the first place? Or, were the tactics used by the government, such as the use of loudspeakers to psychologically upset the Davidians, proper? Nor will he ask why the FBI moved in on the compound as they did.

Possibly, Danforth knows just how pandemic "bad judgment" is within the federal bureaucracy and refuses to expose that can of worms to the American public.

So, judgment, policy and politics are all outside his radar screen, says Danforth. Still, that leaves means and opportunity available to investigate. That, and a lot of dead bodies as evidence that something was woefully wrong with the way federal personnel conducted themselves.

That is, within 52 days, this group of people went from living a peaceful existence, off by themselves, to getting shot, gassed and burned to death. And, the cold hard fact that needs great discussion is that they did not go anywhere or bother anyone to have that happen to them. The trouble came to them. The problem came to their home. And, those in charge of starting the trouble killed a lot of people.

Really, there is not much else that needs to be known.

Sure, it would be nice if we could learn exactly why all those men, women and children were attacked and killed. But, Danforth refuses to address that aspect of the problem. The government will lie about it, anyway.

Congress will address the problem. But, between the police-loving authoritarians on the right, the obstructionists on the left, and those in the middle who are afraid the media will not like hearing the truth, we do not expect anything to come of that. The Waco hearings will be about as fruitful as the hearings were about the CIA importing cocaine for sale on our streets: No arrests. No convictions. And, very little meaningful information leaked to the American public.

As we mentioned last week, Danforth reports to Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder. Holder is a cover- up expert and will do anything possible to stop information from becoming public.

For instance, ten days after assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Johnston, in Waco, wrote a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno raising questions about a possible Justice Department cover-up in the Waco standoff, Johnston and his boss, U.S. Attorney James W. Blagg, were abruptly removed from the case. Holder said that Johnson and Blagg had a conflict of interest because they were involved in the original prosecutions. They are now recused from any further dealings in criminal or civil proceedings related to the attack. Muzzled, too.

And already, Justice and the FBI are using the Danforth investigation as a type of cover up. When a reporter asked an FBI agent a question about Waco, the reply was curt: "That's all part of the Danforth investigation," the FBI spokesman said. "We wouldn't want to comment."

So, where was Danforth on the first few days of his new Job? And, where is Danforth's primary office to be? St. Louis.

Danforth said he will report the "unvarnished" truth to the American people -- after the end of his investigation. What he did not say is that Eric Holder and Janet Reno get to redact as much of the report as they wish before we see it.

Some people are actually starting to ask what Clinton's next "Wag the Dog" will be. That is, they are wondering what Clinton will do to capture the news away from all the damaging Waco reports.

We find that to be an honest question, but not necessarily the correct question to be asking right now.

Sure, a few odds and ends are going to leak out of the hearings, and maybe even from the "outside" Danforth investigation. However, by design, this will take time. Which means that, by the time whatever results are presented to the American people, the Clintons and all of their underlings could be long gone from Washington.

And, what results can we expect from any fresh revelations? Probably the most we can expect is that the Davidians now in prison will be released. However, it would be amazing, and very uncharacteristic of government, if any in the ATF, FBI or Justice Department were arrested.

The most that will happen is that Congress will give the ATF and FBI a written scolding. Sure they committed murder. But, evidently government agents get to do that with impunity nowadays. So, in the end, Congress will increase the ATF and FBI budgets and it will be business as usual.

In other words, nothing will happen.

There will be no "Wag the Dog" to cover the Waco news because the Waco news IS the Wag the Dog.

So, what's the news being displaced by the Waco news, then?

Few Clinton scandals are being investigated by Congress or federal investigators. Not seriously, anyway. However, at least two important scandals are being investigated by Judicial Watch www.judicialwatch.org.

These two scandals concern foreign money laundering, domestic money laundering, illegal campaign contributions, bribery, blackmail, abuse of office, etc., etc. Most of that is often summed up as "Filegate" and "Chinagate."

"We question why Republicans are hot to trot on Janet Reno's and her FBI's corruption on Waco, but have virtually ignored her equally serious corruption on Chinagate, about which they already have ample evidence," stated Larry Klayman, Judicial Watch Chairman, in a September 15 press release.

"Republicans would rather rake Janet Reno over the coals for Waco, than for Chinagate. Both are equally serious, and Reno should be raked over the coals, but the difference with Waco is that no Republican donors were involved," he added.

That point resonates loud and clear on Capitol Hill.

There are a lot of Democrats (and a few Republicans) in Congress involved in the China connection. So it was decided, unofficially, that the communist Chinese connection just go away. Because, if they expose too much about the illegal communist Chinese campaign funds received, sure as hell someone will become angry and start disclosing all the other illegal campaign funds received from foreign concerns by the Lords and Ladies on both sides of the aisle over the past twenty years.

That could lead to some very major problems for the Lords and Ladies of Capitol Hill and their friends in the lobbying industry. Prison terms, too. Long prison terms. And, it's a bipartisan scandal.

On the other hand, there is no reason we citizens should forget about all this illegal activity, and many of us will not. Because, if this were a mystery novel, it is actually interesting enough to be a best seller. Anyone wanting to play "connect the dots" will easily discover a great deal of wrongdoing by many well known political people.

And, as luck would have it, some people are doing exactly that, and posting their results on the Internet. Judicial Watch has many very interesting depositions of famous people posted on their web site. More can be found on the web site for the House Committee on Government Reform. http://www.house.gov/reform And a great deal of Chinagate and campaign finance irregularities information is still available on the Senate Finance Committee's web page at: http://www.senate.gov/%7Egov_affairs/sireport.htm

There is also a great overview of Chinagate and associated Clinton scandals posted by someone from the Free Republic web site at: http://cyber77.com/china/ This is a very well organized and easy to read article worthy of any major national publication. Unfortunately, we have no idea who the author is at this time.

The Waco story is important and should be completely investigated. But, so too is the bribery of America's elected officials by a communist government.

Yet, as Larry Klayman reported, Chinagate has all but been swept aside and forgotten in Washington.

A poll last week shows Vice President Al Gore in a statistical dead heat with fellow Democrat presidential candidate Bill Bradley -- that is, 42 percent of New York Democrats favor Gore and 40 percent favor Bradley.

What's that mean? Not much. It's still six months until the primary election.

On the other hand, there is a growing undercurrent of support for Bradley by Democratic insiders. There is also another little problem between Al Gore and the leaders of the multinational industrialists and bankers: They do not trust him. Simply put, Al Gore is not part of their program and Bill Bradley was schooled in their modern population control methods.

Now they're saying that Bradley could also beat Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush in New York by 10 points, which equates to more success raising campaign funds. Nobody wants to back a looser, after all.

So, who is this Bill Bradley guy, anyway; and why should we be paying attention? Let's look:

Bradley grew up in the small town of Crystal City, which is located thirty-six miles south of St. Louis, Missouri. The Bradley family were middle class, moderate Republicans.

Bill Bradley found his basketball early on in life and quickly became the local hoops star. That got him a scholarship to Duke, but he changed his mind at the last minute -- four days before class started -- and decided to attend Princeton instead. As Bradley had learned, he would have a better chance of being accepted as a Rhodes Scholar from Princeton, and he was interested in politics.

Bradley then attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship. While at Oxford, Bradley took time to travel, which took him to Russia, Germany and the Middle East. He eventually received a master's degree in politics, philosophy, and economics. Which means, he was then properly indoctrinated as a politician.

Still, there was that money thing: He needed some. But, he had basketball skills and the New York Knicks picked him up.

Ten years later, he was ready for politics and so ran for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Already being properly indoctrinated for that, he received immediate support from those with money and influence and won the seat.

Remember his training now. Also consider all of his years of experience working out extensive problems in the private sector. Because, now come the rewards.

In the Senate, Bradley was placed on the Finance Committee and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Later, he was also on the Special Committee on Aging and the Select Committee on Intelligence.

These would be very good committee assignments, even for a Senator with many years of finance and industry experience in the private sector -- or years of State political experience. But, Bradley only had basketball experience. Well, that, and a degree from the Rhodes Scholar program at a university outside of the United States. That is, Bradley had the proper connections.

Eighteen years later, in August 1995, Bill Bradley said that he was satisfied with what he had accomplished in the Senate and "needed new challenges." Therefore, he retired from the Senate at the end of his third term.

Now, with all these credentials and work experience, Bill Bradley runs for President of the United States.

Bill Bradley is trained to be a "Third Way" Socialist. So, it was really no surprise that he proposes programs like a comprehensive health care initiative (Hillary light), a plan to "assist working families" without lowering their taxes, and yet a new welfare program to "combat child poverty." And, of course, he also calls for very strict gun control laws and even more ominous civil rights laws.

Then, on September 15, Bradley also called for a welfare program for politicians: "I have proposed a campaign finance reform measure that, in addition to banning soft money, would require public financing, spending limits, and free television time."

On September 17, Bradley met with a few of his friends from the Congressional Black Caucus and the Congressional Progressive Caucus -- most of whom are also members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which is the domestic arm of Socialist International. (Links provided below.)

Proposals made by the Progressive Caucus, and Bill Bradley, can be traced directly back to those running the Rhodes Scholar program at Oxford University and the Fabian Society in England; which are the actual leadership of the current "Third Way" progressive-socialist movement now taking hold in many countries throughout the world.

For more information on the Third Way movement, and their intent for the people of the United States, check the Heads Up archive page. Because, from the point of view of the average working folks, this program will come very close to imposing on the American people the plight experienced by those living in a communist dictatorship.

http://www.dsausa.org/si/si.html

http://www.dsausa.org/dsa.html

http://www.dsausa.org/pc/pc.caucus.html#stpur

http://www.dsausa.org/pc/pc.members.html

http://www.fabian-society.org.uk

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