"Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice
to deceive."
I can’t recall if I first heard that old-timey truism
before or after my mother washed my mouth out with soap for telling my first
lie.
But after only one or two frontal, facial encounters with a
giant cake of Ivory I acquired an early taste for truth.
The more I examine life in our nation’s capitol, the more
convinced I am that most government officials either had no mothers…or
bath soap.
Lying within the beltway is institutional.
The most recent glaring example was dropped on our Internet doorstep
and shouted from the headlines of this weekend's New York Times.
Only after the official Danforth report on the Waco inferno
was signed, sealed and delivered to Congress, a largely sleeping American
public and a massively indifferent media, did the truth begin to emerge.
We’ve been had again.
Was it to cover his own behind that John Danforth, last week, admitted he
had struggled with the FBI for the delivery of papers crucial to his
investigation?
Danforth has come under intense scrutiny from constitutional conservatives
and the alternative media for allowing glaring errors to be admitted into
his final report. The most controversial involved a series of mistakes made
by the allegedly independent government contract employees who staged an
infrared re-enactment of the final moments outside the Branch Davidian
retreat.
At issue was whether FBI agents were firing into the building just before it
caught fire, preventing the escape of the 80 victims who ultimately died
inside.
Now, the New York Times tells us that government employee,
Robert Stewart, who helped run the tests exonerating the FBI, admits the
guns used during the re-enactment were never shouldered by agents during the
Waco siege.
The bottom line?
They tested the wrong guns.
The longer barreled M-16 versions employed in the retest
produce less flash than FBI issued automatic weapons.
Speaking anonymously, an FBI source admitted the shorter
barreled version was brought to Danforth’s office for approval by both
legal sides and inclusion in the upcoming test.
But full-sized, military weapons were used instead during
the actual videotaping.
The infrared testing that exonerated the FBI was organized
and conducted by Vector Data System, a supposedly independent British
contractor. However, its American parent company does billions of dollars of
work each year for the Pentagon.
We've also learned the FBI switched to a military grade of
gunpowder that produces less flash for its faulty recreation.
Even our friend, Reed Irvine at the Accuracy in Media report
has weighed in on the rigged FBI test, promoting a new 34-minute video by
film producer Mike McNulty called, "The FLIR (Foward Looking Infrared
Radar) Project" and raising still more serious questions about the
government's handling of the case.
Sounds to me like another one of those nasty spider webs.
All we know for certain is that a lot of innocent men, women
and children are dead at government hands…and those bloody liars in
Washington will do whatever it takes to point the hounds of truth down
another empty rabbit trail.
Maybe we should send them each a bar of Ivory soap.
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