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Use of the Delta Force at Waco is controversial because of the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which makes it illegal to use federal troops to enforce laws within U.S. territory, except when a presidential waiver is granted.
"We have ignited the very human rights catastrophe the war was started to avoid," declared Pat Buchanan on Face the Nation . Columnist Arianna Huffington compared Kosovo to Waco, arguing that just as Clinton's actions six years ago "precipitated" the murder-suicides by the Branch Davidian cult in Waco, Texas, his intervention in Kosovo "has unwittingly produced one of the great humanitarian catastrophes of the 20 th century."
The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post lead with Janet Reno's reactions to the FBI flip-flop--after six years of denials, FBI officials admitted that "pyrotechnics" were used during the standoff with Branch Davidians in Waco.
Both the NYT and LAT front a Waco revelation made yesterday by a California congressman: Information showing that the FBI used combustible tear gas canisters at Waco has been in the DOJ's possession "for years" and was even sent to Congress no later than 1995.
This fourth group--bands such as Whiskeytown, Moonshine Willy, and the Waco Brothers--uses country as a shock device, a flash of bad taste, and seems to view the genre as an oppressive religion.