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Danny Coulson, founding commander of the FBI’s hostage rescue team and a deputy assis tant FBI director at the time of the Waco inci dent, told The Dallas Morning News in a copy right story published Tuesday that two devices known as M651 CS tear gas grenades were fired from FBI grenade launchers hours before the compound erupted in flames on April 19, 1993. They were used with permission from FBI supervisors, he said. Coulson, however, said the pyrotechnic grenades played no role in starting the fire. “The fire did not start there. That’s a lot of nothing,” he said, noting that the fire erupted shortly after noon. Independent arson investigators concluded it began simultaneously in three separate places inside the compound. The FBI, using listening devices, recorded conversations of Davidians discussing spread ing fuel and planning a fire hours before the compound burned. Arson investigators also found evidence that five different accelerants, including gasoline, charcoal lighter fluid and camp stove fuel, had been poured inside the compound. Accusations that the FBI started the fire have been consistently denied by the federal government. “The stance has always been that they used no pyrotechnics out there that day” —Capt. David Byrne Retired FBI agent The FBI used only nonburning devices to in sert tear gas into the compound because of fears that pyrotechnic tear gas grenades might spark a fire in the flimsy wooden structure, govern ment officials have always contended. The statement by Coulson, suspended by the FBI for his actions during the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, marks the first time any government of ficial has publicly contradicted those claims. A U.S. Justice Department spokesperson de nied again Monday that any pyrotechnic |L j were used. JjVCt il ( \ “We are aware of no evidence to supj I notion that any pyrotechnic deviceswcBCORPUS C by the federal government on April 1) winds that rij Department spokesperson Myron M; protective loc the newspaper. "We've said that all througli The issue of whether the FBI «^ ien c ^ m ' rotechnic devices that day isamajoi suTncrged a an ongoing inquiry by the Texas Ran-M a dec ^ nt 1 a key allegation in a pending federal®^ 1101 K1 V ful-death lawsuit filed against thegovef l /’^’ ’ by surviving Davidians and familiescM,.,: A JnSImo A former Texas Ranger captain who* u q lwes( o1 the investigation of the 1993 tragedy;cM art a f ter t j u son’s statement is “mind-boggling”eveH j_[ e est j nK devices played no role in the fire. $700,000. “The stance has always beenthatfcH '‘\5y e j ust v no pyrotechnics out there that day,”CapiR| iere ’ s q U j t Byrne, who retired from the agencyiti) jl re now ” 1996, said. “There are some seriouscncM B ret rolled, olations if they did. They have testfeHg ra j ns an( j have done it before Congress. Theyhaiffrhe storm it in court. lems conside “They’ve caused other people totes® ickly deten there were no pyrotechnics used,hesMat wa s still; that turns out not to be right, then sorMuth Texasy will have some serious problems on a p Laredo am level.” Byrne said. Bd braced ft pated deluge i: Only minorsf Bush’s Supreme Court appointees “conservative,” study “It was not ing to be,” Garza said. 1 BUSH AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. George W. Bush’s appointees to the Texas Supreme Court, while conserva tive on the issues, have had a mod erating influence through their posi tions on procedure and evidence, said the author of a new study. “I think the Bush appointees are dragging it back towards the cen ter,” Walt Borges, director of Court Watch, said Thesday. Court Watch is a project of Texas Watch, whose members include insurance con sumers and funding sources include trial lawyers and other attorneys. Borges said the appointees of Bush, now the Republican presi dential front-runner, are “die-hard conservatives” on the merits of cas es. But he said they are conservative on procedure. “They are going to make every body play by the same rules,” he said. “There are less cases each year in which the court seems to be go ing out of its way to bail out a de fendant that has made some major procedural error.” Chief Justice Tom Phillips said he had not seen the Court Watch study, but he disputed the idea that rules have been bent to further a conser vative agenda. “The court has not bent the rules to favor a particular litigant or a par ticular interest. We apply the law to the facts of each case as they arise,” Phillips said. The “New Guard” on the all-Re- publican, nine-member court in cludes four justices appointed ini tially by Bush — Greg Abbott, James A. Baker, A1 Gonzales and Deborah Hankinson — plus Justice Harriet O’Neill, elected last year, Borges said. Abbott, Baker and Hankinson each have won elections to keep the seats to which they were appointed. Gonzales was named to the bench less than a year ago. Borges said the current court ap pears less likely to use its power to intervene in cases before a trial court decision is reached, less like- mspe )rt Worti ly to disqualify evidence a jthose two fact likely apply a stricter star® Agriculture upholding summary judgE® favor of defendants. ■ But he added, “This mean that consumers and individuals have nothingioif would stiii advise them tost of the Texas Supreme Court if it gets up there on a quest law the interpretation isgoii conservative. ” Court Watch, in its annua: of court decisions, said injura:| sumers and others suingfuf nomic damages or physical saw their wins inch up(027, between August 1998 and 1999, from 24 percent one-year period. MEET ME FORT WOR tan accused i ce of 6-yea ngs worked ard at an eh Fort Worth fc 1995, accord in port. 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