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Waco: David Koresh
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As in Iraq, so in Waco: the government was fed false "intelligence" by officials with their own agenda, who, in turn, were given information about the Koresh group by a number of "defectors." Sound familiar? These ex-members claimed that "child abuse" was rampant among the Koreshians, although a nine-week investigation conducted in 1992 by the Texas Bureau of Child Protective Services found zero evidence of this. Nonetheless, Attorney General Janet Reno made the accusations a central feature of her rationale for ordering the invasion and subsequent slaughter.
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The events at Waco spurred both criminal prosecution and civil litigation. On August 3, 1993, a federal grand jury returned a superseding 10-count indictment against twelve of the surviving Davidians. The grand jury charged, among other things, that the Davidians had conspired to, and aided and abetted in, murder of federal officers, and had unlawfully possessed and used various firearms.
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Johnston helped prosecute 11 Branch Davidians on murder charges in 1994 and helped draft the search warrant that the ATF used to storm Koresh's compound east of Waco. He has said that if he was told before the Davidian criminal trial that the FBI used incendiary tear-gas devices, the significance of the term "incendiary" did not register with him.
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The next film was Day 51: The True Story of Waco, which featured Ron Cole, a self-proclaimed militia member from Colorado who was later prosecuted for weapons violations. [7] The Linda Thompson and Ron Cole films, along with extensive coverage given to the Branch Davidian siege on some talk radio shows, galvanized support for the Branch Davidians among some sections of the right including the Nascent Militia Movement, while critics on the left ... denounced the government siege on civil liberties grounds.
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Today he is regarded as one of the nation's top independent researchers on the Waco tragedy. His work may play a key role in the $675 million wrongful death lawsuit that Branch Davidian survivors have brought against the FBI. The lawsuit is now being heard in U.S. District Court in Waco
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