Remembering The 51 Day Standoff In Waco, Texas – 25 Years Later

The FBI Had Lied

Leading up to the assault, Attorney General Reno had specifically directed that no pyrotechnic devices were to be used. Between 1993 and 1999, the FBI denied under oath that such devices were ever used, yet pyrotechnic Flite-Rite CS gas grenades were found in the rubble after the fire. Then, in 1999, they were forced to admit that they used such grenades but said they had not been fired into the building itself. When the FBI documents were turned over to Congress, the page listing the use of pyrotechnics was missing. A senior FBI official said that as many as 100 FBI agents knew about the use of pyrotechnics, yet none came forward. However, on May 12, 1993, less than a month after the fires, the entire site was bulldozed making gathering forensic evidence impossible.

This definitely looked suspicious to the American public.