From: Gary Hunt at the Outpost of Freedom in Waco, Texas
Date: MARCH 19, 1993During the initial
presentation at the FBI/aft press conference today, Bob
Ricks, FBI, reported, "copies of the original search
warrant and arrest warrant for David Koresh, signed by a
U.S. Magistrate on February 25, 1993", were provided
to those in the complex. Later he clarified that
providing the warrants was not, in his opinion, service
of the warrants. Later on Ricks indicated that the
affidavit, the bases for the warrant, was not provided to
those in the compound. It seems that it will be some time
before those in the complex will have an opportunity to
"meet" their accuser.
The FBI stated that they played tapes of conversations
between FBI, Koresh and Schneider for all in the complex
to hear. Makes you wonder why they would feel the need
for those inside to hear and continue to deny the public
the right to hear. Are they afraid that those inside
might somehow find out from someone outside what they
already know inside? Or is it that what we might hear on
the outside would be so untenable that we might have
grave concern over the actions of the government?
Another point made was that none inside were being
held hostage by pastor Koresh, contrary to what he had
suggested to us in the past. Or, perhaps, we just don't
understand exactly who is being held hostage.
An interesting sidelight to the press conference today
-- just prior to the beginning of the conference I was
escorted into a separate room at the convention center by
the lady that oversees the conference and a state
trooper, to be challenged as to my qualifications to be
there. It seems that they were concerned because I had
been involved in a "disturbance" a few days
earlier at the federal court house with the FBI. I was
involved in the disturbance which was created when the
FBI chose to "detain" me when I was attempting
to file some papers with the court. I didn't like the
idea of being detained, as I indicated to the FBI.
Fortunately they saw fit to allow me to attend the press
conference, after this second "detention".
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