Sorry...I'm a tad behind in my "'puter stuff." I thought this
was one of those things where he said the buck didn't stop with
him, that it was all Reno's decision. More revisionist history
for the masses, I suppose. --MS]
From:
http://news.excite.com/news/r/000725/01/clinton-davidians
Clinton felt "personally responsible" for Waco
Updated 1:19 AM ET July 25, 2000
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Days after the government was
absolved of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege and fire at the
Branch Davidian compound, the White House released Monday
testimony from President Clinton in April that he "felt
personally responsible" for the roughly 80 deaths.
Clinton believed he "made a terrible mistake" in allowing FBI
agents to storm the sect's compound to end a seven-week standoff,
according to testimony during an April 21 interview with Justice
Department investigators probing alleged campaign finance
violations.
The president was asked specifically about a meeting with
Indonesian businessman James Riady at the White House on April
19, 1993, the day of the siege at Waco, but he said he could not
recall much about the meeting since he was preoccupied with the
events in Texas.
Clinton's thoughts on the Waco siege were made public after an
outside investigator last week completely absolved Attorney
General Janet Reno and the government of wrongdoing, saying the
group's leaders set the fire and shot at their own people.
Former Sen. John Danforth, a Republican from Missouri, told a
news conference Friday there was "no evidence of wrongdoing" by
the government.
But in his testimony in April, Clinton indicated that he still
struggled with what happened in Waco that day.
"Once this thing happened, I was totally preoccupied with it,
because I felt responsible for it," Clinton said, citing a
similar situation that occurred while he was serving as governor
of Arkansas.
SWAYED BY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
In that case, he said he argued successfully against a
storming of the compound in question, located in the mountains of
north Arkansas. The area was evacuated and arrests were made
without any deaths.
"And that's what I thought we should have done. And I gave in
to the people in the Justice Department who were pleading to go
in early, and I felt personally responsible for what had
happened, and I still do," Clinton told the investigators.
About 80 sect members, including the group's leader, David
Koresh, died in the fire which followed the FBI raid.
The standoff began on Feb. 28, 1993, when agents from the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms tried to serve Koresh a
warrant. A gunfight erupted, killing four of the agents and six
of the cult members.
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