Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 11:34:41 -0800
From: Paul.Schauble@ticketmaster.com (Paul Schauble)
Subject: [lpaz-repost] *** Government reverses Waco statement
To: pls2@home.com (".Me "), keithw@bctv.com, lpaz-repost@onelist.com

WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's acknowledgment that a type of
infrared camera the FBI used during the 1993 Waco siege can detect
gunfire is a "stunning reversal" from its long-held position, Branch
Davidian lawyers contended Thursday. One of the government's lead
lawyers in the wrongful death case said Wednesday the camera is
capable of detecting gunfire "in some circumstances." But Michael
Bradford, a U.S. attorney in Texas, continued to assert federal
agents did not fire any shots April 19, 1993. A demonstration planned
for next month in Texas will test the Branch Davidians' claim that
federal agents fired their weapons. Both sides hope the test will
determine what caused more than 100 flashes to show up on the
infrared tape the FBI shot of the siege. They plan to compare the FBI
tape and aerial surveillance footage made at the re-creation. Branch
Davidian lawyers contend Bradford's comment about the Forward Looking
Infrared camera is a tacit admission that the test will detect
gunfire. "What we're seeing is the government can read the
handwriting on the wall, so to speak, and their experts have told
them, 'Expect to see gunfire flashes on the (infrared) demonstration
tapes that are going to look just like the flashes on the April 1993
tape,'" said Michael Caddell, the lead counsel for Davidians suing
the government. Three months ago, the government appeared skeptical
about the camera's ability to detect gunfire. In a filing in federal
court in Waco, Texas, the Justice Department proposed to test the
plaintiffs' "hypothesis" that gunfire can be captured on camera. The
FBI's own camera operators, in more recent depositions, denied the
camera could detect muzzle blasts, Caddell and co-counsel Jim Brannon
said.

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