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From: golchowy@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Gerald Olchowy)
Subject: Re: CLINTON: Remarks by the President on Waco w/ Q&A 4.20.93
Message-ID: <1993Apr21.145822.17389@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
References: <1r2g4oINNqa7@life.ai.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 14:58:22 GMT
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In article <1r2g4oINNqa7@life.ai.mit.edu> Clinton-HQ@Campaign92.Org (The White House) writes:
>
>                           THE WHITE HOUSE
>
>                    Office of the Press Secretary
>______________________________________________________________
>For Immediate Release                             April 20, 1993     
>
>	     
>                       REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
>            IN QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH THE PRESS 
>
>
>1:36 P.M. EDT
>	     
>	     
>	     THE PRESIDENT:  On February the 28th, four federal 
>agents were killed in the line of duty trying to enforce the law 
>against the Branch Davidian compound, which had illegally stockpiled 
>weaponry and ammunition, and placed innocent children at risk.  
>Because the BATF operation had failed to meet its objective, a 51-day 
>standoff ensued.  
>	     
>	     The Federal Bureau of Investigation then made every 
>reasonable effort to bring this perilous situation to an end without 
>bloodshed and further loss of life.  The Bureau's efforts were 
>ultimately unavailing because the individual with whom they were 
>dealing, David Koresh, was dangerous, irrational, and probably 
>insane.      
>

The Stacy Koon-Lawrence Powell defense!  The decisions of Janet
Reno and Bill Clinton in this affair are essentially the moral
equivalents of Stacy Koon's.  Reno and Clinton have the advantage
in that they investigate themselves. 

Gerald
