{"id":11895,"date":"2018-03-30T10:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T14:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=11895"},"modified":"2018-04-19T17:37:41","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T21:37:41","slug":"waco-atrocity-coverup-riff-from-mises-institute-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/30\/waco-atrocity-coverup-riff-from-mises-institute-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Waco Atrocity &#038; Coverup Riff from Mises Institute Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frostburg.edu\/dept\/econ\/department-faculty\/dr-william-anderson\/\"><strong>Bill Anderson<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0kindly asked me about the<strong> Waco<\/strong> coverup during the question-and-answer portion of my spiel at last week&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mises.org\">Mises Institute<\/a> conference. Here&#8217;s my response: The feds got away with covering up the worst parts of that atrocity &#8211; or at least with delaying the damning evidence so long that the political damage was minimized. Same thing happened with Obama&#8217;s coverup of the torture scandal.\u00a0I worked in a hat-tip to the heroic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnkiriakou.com\/\"><strong>John Kiriakou<\/strong><\/a>, the CIA official who blew the whistle on torture &#8211; and who was sent to prison by Obama and Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department (the only CIA official to serve time in the torture scandal).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 986px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-11895-1\" width=\"986\" height=\"596\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Mises-torture-scrunched-down22.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Mises-torture-scrunched-down22.mp4\">http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Mises-torture-scrunched-down22.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>I scrunched this video down slightly to get it to fit on the blog; a higher quality version is available here at about one hour into the taping.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?time_continue=9&amp;v=r6X-KMcQstY<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of my lament about coverups &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Screenshot-lamenting-coverup-Snapshot-5-3-29-2018-11-34-PM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11902\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Screenshot-lamenting-coverup-Snapshot-5-3-29-2018-11-34-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Screenshot-lamenting-coverup-Snapshot-5-3-29-2018-11-34-PM.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/JPB-Screenshot-lamenting-coverup-Snapshot-5-3-29-2018-11-34-PM-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend Bill Anderson\u00a0kindly asked me about the Waco coverup during the question-and-answer portion of my spiel at last week&#8217;s Mises Institute conference. Here&#8217;s my response: The feds got away with covering up the worst parts of that atrocity &#8211; or at least with delaying the damning evidence so long that the political damage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[891,349,47,1411,399,345,102],"class_list":["post-11895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atf","tag-coverup","tag-fbi","tag-john-kirkiakou","tag-mises-institute","tag-speech","tag-waco"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Waco Atrocity &amp; Coverup Riff from Mises Institute Conference - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I was asked asked about the Waco coverup during Q-and-A at the Mises conference. 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