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UPDATED:\u00a0 Here’s my riff on Waco and Biden from my Saturday speech to the Maryland Libertarian Party convention.\u00a0 Great audience, great banter – a joy to talk to folks who understand the depravity of what the feds did at Waco.\u00a0 Click here to listen or download<\/p>\n

American Conservative, April 13, 2021<\/h3>\n

Biden Re-Ignites the Waco Fire<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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The president\u2019s ATF nominee reminds us of a dark episode of law enforcement lawlessness.<\/p>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Last week, President Joe Biden nominated David Chipman<\/a> to be head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, the premier federal firearms enforcement agency. Biden complemented that announcement with a call for a national red flag law to entitle police to preemptively confiscate firearms from citizens suspected of being a threat to themselves or others.<\/p>\n

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ATF’s David Chipman at the Waco rubble?<\/p><\/div>\n

Chipman was a 25-year ATF agent and a key official at the 1994 federal trial of the Branch Davidians who survived the ATF and FBI assaults the prior year. Many federal agents posed for grisly \u201cvictory photos\u201d in the rubble of the Branch Davidians\u2019 Waco, Texas, home after it burned to the ground during an FBI assault. One photo allegedly shows Chipman proudly holding a rifle in front of the wreckage where scores of children died shortly before. The White House and Chipman\u2019s current employer, the antigun Giffords organization, did not respond to repeated email requests to confirm or deny that Chipman is the federal agent in that photo; the Daily Mail<\/i><\/a> and many online sites have tagged Chipman as the agent. In a Reddit public question and answer session in 2019, Chipman sought to spur support for an assault weapons ban by falsely claiming that the Davidians shot down<\/a> two federal helicopters that were attacking their compound.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s nomination of Chipman has thrust Waco back in the national spotlight. Millions of Americans permanently lost faith in the federal government after ATF and FBI attacks concluded with more than 80 civilians dead.<\/strong> But few Americans are aware of Biden\u2019s role, first in helping cover up the debacle and later, after ample damning evidence had surfaced, exonerating federal law enforcement and instead blaming Americans who distrusted Washington. Biden\u2019s behavior on Waco is a bad portent for anyone who expects federal agencies to be leashed during his reign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the time of the federal assault at Waco, Biden was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which had primary oversight jurisdiction over the conduct of federal law enforcement agencies. How did Biden react to an FBI tank and toxic gas assault that ended with shocking carnage? On the day after the fire, Biden \u201ccautioned that lawmakers should wait until all the details become available before it begins second-guessing the Justice Department,\u201d the New York Times <\/i>reported. Biden declared<\/a>, \u201cWe\u2019ve got to wait to figure out what happened before we have hearings.\u201d Delaying hearings until after the federal agencies that had blundered (or far worse) announced the \u201cfacts of the matter\u201d would have horrified earlier generations of congressional leaders who courageously exposed federal lies and cover-ups, from Sen. William Fulbright\u2019s investigation of the Vietnam War in the 1960s to Sen. Frank Church\u2019s investigation of FBI and CIA rampages in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Biden conducted zero hearings on Waco while he was chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. After Republicans captured control of Congress in the 1994 elections, committee chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT) held hearings in late 1995. Despite plenty of damning disclosures of federal misconduct at Waco in the prior two years, Biden was emphatic<\/a> that the real problem was \u201ca growing number of people across the country who are seizing on the incidents at Waco as well as at Ruby Ridge to suggest that law enforcement is our enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe record from Waco does not evidence\u2026any improper motive or intent on the part of law enforcement,\u201d Biden declared. Instead, Biden touted \u201cthe excellent overall record of the Federal law enforcement agencies, including both the ATF and the FBI.\u201d Biden vindicated the feds: \u201cThe ATF had a legitimate and very important reason to be at Waco in the first place, that is, to serve warrants on those reasonably suspected of violating the Federal criminal laws.\u201d But if the ATF Waco search is Biden\u2019s idea of \u201clegitimate,\u201d the next four years will be hell on civil liberties.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Waco investigation got rolling in July 1992, when ATF agent Davy Aguilera visited the Branch Davidians\u2019 gun dealer<\/a>, and suggested the Davidians were illegally converting<\/a> semiautomatic firearms to full automatic firing capacity, a federal felony. When Davidian leader David Koresh was told about that allegation, he invited Aguilera to visit the Davidians\u2019 residence and conduct an on-the-spot inspection. Aguilera refused the invitation and his subsequent affidavit application<\/a> to search the Davidians\u2019 residence \u201ccontained an incredible number of false statements,\u201d according to a 1996 congressional report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In an October 1995 Senate hearing, Biden declared<\/a>, \u201cNobody in Washington, nobody in ATF, nobody involved with ATF had an idea that, you know, those Branch Davidians are dangerous people, Koresh is a dangerous guy, we have got to be aggressive and go after them.\u201d The ATF\u2019s subsequent conduct reveals Biden\u2019s definition of \u201cnon-aggressive.\u201d Instead of conducting a peaceful search of the Davidians\u2019 sprawling wooden home, the ATF chose to launch a massive attack on its peaceful residents. On February 28, 1993,<\/a> more than 70 ATF agents<\/a> and three military helicopters<\/a> launched a Sunday morning attack with no warning. Prior to the assault, the ATF alerted several television stations to assure coverage of a raid expected to seize a big cache of weapons. CBS\u2019s 60 Minutes <\/i>disclosed<\/a> that ATF agents said \u201cthe initial attack on that cult in Waco was a publicity stunt\u2014the main goal of which was to improve ATF\u2019s tarnished image.\u201d A 1996 congressional investigation<\/a> noted that ATF deliberately chose a \u201cdynamic entry approach. The bias toward the use of force may in large part be explained by a culture within ATF,\u201d including \u201cpromotional criteria.\u201d<\/p>\n

ATF claimed a surprise attack was necessary because Koresh almost never came out of his home. Six years after the attack, thanks to FOIA hounding by former federal lawyer David Hardy, the ATF finally disclosed a memo revealing that, nine days before the raid, two undercover ATF agents<\/a> (recognized as such by Koresh) knocked on the door of the Davidian residence and invited Koresh to go shooting. Koresh, two other Davidians, and the two agents had a fine time shooting<\/a> AR-15s and SIG Sauer semiautomatic pistols. Koresh provided the ammo and the agents handed him their guns. The ATF undercover agents\u2019 official report<\/a>, filed before the raid, noted: \u201cMr. Koresh stated that he believed that every person had the right to own firearms and protect their homes.\u201d Koresh could have easily been arrested that day but that would have preempted the biggest and most glorious raid in ATF history.<\/p>\n

Instead, the raid quickly turned into a debacle, leaving four ATF agents and six Davidians dead<\/a>. The ATF claimed<\/a> Davidians \u201cambushed\u201d their agents, a story promoted by the vast majority of the media. But after ATF agents told superiors that the ATF shot first, the ATF ceased<\/a> its shooting review to avoid creating documents that could subvert the court case against the Davidians. A Treasury Department report written by outside experts and issued in September 1993 condemned \u201cdeliberately misleading post-raid statements about the raid and the raid plan by certain ATF supervisors.\u201d After the raid debacle, the FBI took over the scene and ramped up the pressure on the Davidians. The FBI settled on an assault plan that included using military tanks to collapse the building atop the residents. The FBI fired pyrotechnic rounds at the scene, perhaps the source of the conflagration that ended the standoff.<\/p>\n

Biden was one of the most fervent champions of the federal drug war in the 1980s and 1990s, but he had no complaint about the ATF\u2019s drug war scam at Waco. Prior to the raid, ATF officials were told that it would be illegal for the U.S. military to assist them unless there was a \u201cdrug nexus\u201d to the case. Voila<\/em>! A few days later, the ATF notified military officials that they suspected the Davidians had a methamphetamine lab in their basement. ATF agents then received training in close-quarters combat and called in military helicopters from the Texas National Guard to assault the Davidians\u2019 home in conjunction with the agents attacking on the ground. Despite such extensive preparations, the drug charge vanished immediately after the raid, and federal prosecutors never raised the issue at the surviving Davidians\u2019 1994 trial. A 1996 congressional report<\/a> concluded that the ATF\u2019s actions during and after the raid made it \u201cclear that the ATF believed that a methamphetamine lab did not exist.\u201d The House report concluded that \u201cthe ATF intentionally misled Defense Department and military personnel\u201d regarding the existence of the meth lab. But federal agencies treated those lies as a harmless error since they did not reduce government power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the trial of the surviving Davidians in 1994, federal prosecutors compared Koresh to Hitler and Stalin and declared<\/a> that the 11 defendants were \u201cas much religious terrorists as the people who blew up\u2026Pan Am 103.\u201d But the jury found all the Davidian defendants not guilty of murder, though seven were convicted of manslaughter. The New York Times<\/i>characterized<\/a> the verdict as a \u201cstunning defeat\u201d for the federal government; a Los Angeles Times<\/i> headline declared<\/a>, \u201cOutcome Indicates Jurors Placed Most Blame on the Government.\u201d Jury foreman Sarah Bain commented after<\/a> the trial, \u201cThe federal government was absolutely out of control there\u2026. The wrong people were on trial, it should have been the ones that planned the raid and orchestrated it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But neither the jury verdicts nor House hearings in the summer of 1995 that exposed further ATF and FBI deceits and abuses dented Joe Biden\u2019s view. Instead, at the Senate hearings in October of that year, Biden portrayed the real danger as people on the \u201cleft and right who see everything as some great conspiracy.\u201d Biden sought<\/a> \u201cto establish that [Waco] wasn\u2019t Big Brother sitting up in Washington.\u201d If the ATF mass assault and the FBI tank-and-toxic-gas attack don\u2019t count as Big Brother, what does?<\/p>\n

Biden is making restoring trust in government a theme of his presidency. I<\/strong>n his inaugural address, he declared<\/a>, \u201cEach of us has a duty and a responsibility as citizens, as Americans, and especially as leaders\u2026to defend the truth and defeat the lies.\u201d Biden\u2019s conduct on Waco and his nomination of David Chipman signal that Americans can\u2019t count on any help from the White House in defeating the lies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<\/i>Lost Rights<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/i>Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>. He is also a\u00a0<\/i>USA Today\u00a0columnist. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i>@JimBovard<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATED:\u00a0 Here’s my riff on Waco and Biden from my Saturday speech to the Maryland Libertarian Party convention.\u00a0 Great audience, great banter – a joy to talk to folks who understand the depravity of what the feds did at Waco.\u00a0 Click here to listen or download American Conservative, April 13, 2021 Biden Re-Ignites the Waco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[891,2124,2773,51,15,451,349,27,102],"class_list":["post-15801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atf","tag-biden","tag-chipman","tag-clinton","tag-congress","tag-constitution","tag-coverup","tag-lying","tag-waco"],"yoast_head":"\nBiden Re-Ignites the Waco Fire - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/biden-re-ignites-the-waco-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Biden Re-Ignites the Waco Fire - 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