With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Thursday July 27, 2000; 11:31 AM EDT
Clinton Contradicted Waco Alibi in 1993 Comments
In sworn testimony three months ago President Clinton tried to
blame pressure from his own Justice Department for the
disasterous decision to use force to end the 1993 Waco standoff,
which resulted in the deaths of more than 80 Branch Davidians and
their children.
"I gave in to the people at the Justice Department who were
pleading to go in early," Clinton told campaign finance task
force chief Robert Conrad, calling his decision to take the
advice "a terrible mistake."
But the day after the assault on the Davidian's church compound,
Clinton said that Attorney General Janet Reno got his full
permission to use force and mentioned nothing about any
recommendations from other Justice Department officials.
"I said that if she thought it was the right thing to do, that
she should proceed and that I would support it. And I stand by
that today," Clinton told reporters in an April 20, 1993, Rose
Garden press conference.
In the same remarks, the president also admitted that he was the
driving force behind the decision to turn Waco into a
paramilitary operation:
"The third question I asked [Attorney General Reno] was - has the
military been consulted? As soon as the initial tragedy came to
light in Waco, that's the first thing I asked to be done because
it was obvious that this was not a typical law enforcement
situation."
In his account to probers seven years later, Clinton suggested
that he had actually favored a much more benign approach all
along. Citing a hostage situation when he was governor of
Arkansas, the president said:
"We quarantined the area and got everybody else out safely. And
that's what I thought we should have done [in Waco]."
Last week Waco special counsel John Danforth absolved the Clinton
administration from any responsibility for the Branch Davidian
debacle.
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