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Wednesday 'June 11,1997
Defense focuses
on McVeigh’s rage
DENVER (AP) — Timothy
McVeigh’s lawyers sought to
make jurors understand his
rage at the government Tues
day, with a Soldier of Fortune
writer testifying McVeigh em
braced the militia belief that
federal agents were to blame
for the deaths of women and
children at Waco.
Prosecutors contended
McVeigh was driven to bomb the
Oklahoma City federal building
by anger over the deadly fire at
the Branch Davidian com
pound. McVeigh’s attorneys
have ended up supporting that
scenario in their attempt to
spare him the death penalty.
Journalist James Pate ana
lyzed McVeigh’s writings and
found them full of the usual mili
tia buzzwords, patriotic pas
sages and references to the gov
ernment sieges at Waco and
Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
“It contains a very broad
range that touches on every as
pect of the movement,” said
Pate, who has written exten
sively about militia culture.
Pate said McVeigh’s reference
to “power hungry storm troop
ers” was a phrase in the militia
Companies
to limit sale
of private
information
WASHINGTON (AP) — Eight
large database companies have
agreed to limit information on pri
vate individuals they make avail
able to clients.
The agreement, announced to
day at a Federal Trade Commission
hearing, addresses concern by pri
vacy advocates that companies of
fering computerized information
are compromising the privacy
rights of individuals.
The eight companies agreed to
release private information only
to what they call qualified sub
scribers who promise to use it ap
propriately. The agreement leaves
it up to the services to explain
which uses are appropriate and
which subscribers can get the in
formation.
The information is typically
from private marketing databases
and often includes buying prefer
ences, household income and oth
er data that critics say allows cre
ation of a dossier on ordinary
private citizens.
The companies will continue to
provide through computer connec
tions such information as tele
phone numbers of people, their
current and previous addresses and
ages. Some companies also provide
Social Security numbers and infor
mation from public documents
such as vehicle registration and
property deeds.
The companies that signed the
agreement are Lexis-Nexis, Exper-
ian, Choice-Point, Database Tech
nologies Inc., Metromail Corp., In
formation America, First Data
InfoSource/Donnelley Marketing
and IRSC Inc.
movement referring to “conduct
in specific incidents where at
least the perception is ... there
has been excessive force, abu
sive force.”
About 80 people died in the
fire that destroyed the Branch Da
vidian compound near Waco on
April 19, 1993, exactly two years
before the Alfred E Murrah Feder
al Building blast killed 168 people.
Pate acknowledged under
cross-examination that not even
Soldier of Fortune advocated vi
olence to answer concerns
about government abuses. He
also noted some in the militia
movement have overstated gov
ernment wrongdoing at Waco —
with a few criticisms turning out
to be untrue.
As Pate faced the barrage of
questions from prosecutor
Patrick Ryan, McVeigh leaned
back in his chair and watched
with a slight half-grin.
Jurors, who must decide
whether to sentence McVeigh
to death by injection or life be
hind bars, appeared bored and
distracted with much of Pate’s
testimony, often squirming in
chairs and looking at the court
room clock.
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Photograph: Robert McKay?
John Egelston, a junior aerospace engineer
ing major, saws wood for a wardrobe. i
Davidian case judge gets OK
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Branch Davidian law
suit that blames the government for the fiery end of the
1993 Texas standoff still has the same judge, despite the
militant sect’s complaint that the jurist is biased.
The Davidians’ lawyers on Tuesday issued a state
ment Tuesday saying they will seek a rehearing by the
5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals or appeal its decision
to the Supreme Court.
Judge Walter Smith in 1994 sentenced eight Branch
Davidians to prison for various charges, including
weapons violations and voluntary manslaughter.
“A fair trial means an impartial judge, but Judge
Smith is already convinced that the Branch Davidians
ambushed the (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms) agents and started the fire,” Mike Caddell, the
Branch Davidians’ lead counsel, said Tuesday. “What
makes this particularly unfair is that under federal law,
Judge Smith is the sole juror and trier of fact for the Da
vidians’ claims against the United States.”
In April, the 5th Circuit court was asked to force
Smith to step down on grounds he was biased because
he ruled against Davidians in previous trials.
A spokeswoman for Smith in Waco on Tuesday
declined to respond to the appellate ruling. Thf
one-sentence order had been issued without com*
ment Monday.
The Davidians’ multimillion-dollar lawsuit has
been on hold since early May when the appeals
court took the question of the judge’s qualifications
under consideration.
The plaintiffs — about 200 surviving Davidians and ,
the relatives of the dead — are challenging the governf j
ment’s conclusion that the Davidians started thefirJo
and that they also shot first during the federal raid on '
their compound.
They contend that when federal agents punched
through the walls and fired tear gas into the cult com
pound April 19,1993, the canisters ignited, burning the
building and the people inside.
Surviving Davidians and relatives filed nine lawsuits
that were consolidated into one case in 1995. Last year,'
against the plaintiffs’ wishes, the case was moved from
Houston to U.S. District Court in Waco.
Defendants include Attorney General Janet Reno
and top officials of the ATE and the FBI, includingthen-
Director William Sessions.
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