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...change the agency culture. "We rebuilt our credibility by full cooperation with the investigations, admitting our mistakes, and more importantly making sure we have structures in place that will prevent those mistakes from recurring," says Freeh. After Waco and Ruby Ridge, he created a new, less paramilitary "crisis-management unit" and completely overhauled the way the bureau handles hostage situations. In the spring of 1996, when the Montana Freemen holed up in their compound near Billings, FBI agents were under far stricter rules of engagement. They could use deadly force only if they or hostages faced "imminent death or serious...
...them: that he was planning to drop the 500-lb. bombs he was carrying (which the Air Force believes were not armed) on the Denver courthouse where the Timothy McVeigh trial is under way; or that the rugged Warthog would be a perfect plane to sell to a militia unit. There were reports, on CNN and elsewhere, that Button may have been suicidal because he was upset over the recent conversion of his mother to the Jehovah's Witness faith, which espouses antiwar beliefs. But Button's father Richard, a veteran pilot who flew in three wars, and his mother...
...conclude Tuesday, with opening statements to begin on Thursday. Despite the recent flap over evidence treatment at the FBI's Crime lab, Cole says the prosecution's strategy should remain essentially unchanged. Once significant alteration: Prosecutors have dropped as a witness David Williams, the head of the FBI explosives unit who concluded the blast was caused by an ammonium nitrate-fuel oil bomb. A Justice Department report earlier this week said Williams made scientifically unsound conclusions in favor of the prosecution. Because prosecutors had anticipated problems with the crime lab evidence, they made arrangements late last year to call British...
Three engine trucks, two latter trucks and a rescue unit arrived at the scene quickly and located the fire on the fourth flour. Water was used to dose the fire out, though Boyle said only a minimal amount was needed...
...Goldman, Sachs & Co.] care about making money," said R. Martin Chavez, chief energy strategist and vice president of the J. Aron unit at that firm...