[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19454]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                         COVERUP IN WACO, TEXAS

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, over 80 Americans were killed at Waco, 
many of them women and children, actually burned to death, and the 
Texas Rangers have now uncovered new evidence that said the Federal 
Government covered up the truth and lied about Waco.
  Check it out. A recent memo says, Federal agents had a friendly 
meeting with Koresh just 9 days before the assault, yet Federal agents 
testified in court, and I quote, they said, they could not lure Koresh 
from the compound and were forced to engage in the assault.
  Unbelievable. The Justice Department is lying through their teeth. 
Mr. Speaker, 700 Federal agents, tanks, and rocket power attacked 
American civilians, 80 of them killed, many of them women and children, 
burned to death, and nobody did anything about it. Nobody. It is time 
for an independent investigation into the FBI, the Justice Department, 
and the coverup in Waco, Texas.

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