A senior official from the House Committee on Government Reform told Fox News Tuesday (9/14) that the committee's probe into the 1993 Waco siege is now focusing on the question of whether federal officials trumped up or fabricated charges of drug activity at the Branch Davidian compound. The purpose of fabricating such a charge would have been to allow the use of U.S. Military personnel in a domestic operation.
For nearly all of our nation's history, the Posse Comitatus Act has forbidden the domestic deployment of the military. Recently, however, that rule has been relaxed in the context of joint anti-drug operations in which the military can now play an ostensibly "supporting" role.
"The question is," pondered the committee official, "why were the military folks -- who were pretty strident against having any involvement -- overruled? And who overruled them? The ATF came up with this bogus request (for military support) where they said the Davidians had a meth lab in their compound."
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