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From: tzs@stein2.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: FBI Director's Statement on Waco Standoff
Date: 24 Apr 1993 07:27:09 GMT
Organization: University of Washington School of Law, Class of '95
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cescript@mtu.edu (Charles Scripter) writes:
>> Oh?  How about the press?  If the BATF & FBI were going to shoot people
>> leaving a burning building, don't you think they would get rid of the
>> press first?
>
>Oh, you mean something like moving the press back to a single
>location, 2 miles away from the "compound"?  The press was allowing

That doesn't count as getting rid of the press.  Getting rid of the press
would mean getting them far enough away so that they wouldn't be able to
see what is going on.

--Tim Smith
