UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 23,1996
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FBI agent charged with cover-up
Ruby Ridge siege center of case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A former FBI headquarters manager was accused yesterday of obstructing justice. He allegedly destroyed all traces of an internal critique of the bureau's deadly 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho.
The apparent plea bargain with E. Michael Kahoe might lead to cover-up charges against some of the four other suspended FBI officials, who remain under investigation for their role in shootings at the cabin of white separatist Randy Weaver. Former Deputy Director Larry Potts, who supervised the case from headquarters, is among the four in question.
A one-count felony information was filed by federal prosecutors against Kahoe, who headed the FBI's violent crimes section at the time of the standoff. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
The filing of a criminal information, rather than a grand jury indictment, usually means the defendant has agreed to plead guilty and cooperate with investigators.
FBI spokesman Bill Carter had no comment, and Kahoe could not be reached.
No immediate court date has been set.
During the FBI's August 1992 standoff with Weaver, a bureau sniper shot and killed Weaver's wife, Vicki, and wounded Weaver and a friend, Kevin L. Harris. The FBI became involved after Weaver's son, Samuel, and a deputy U.S. marshal, William F. Degan, were killed
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"The government needs to prosecute those who issued the rules of engagement that resulted in the death of these people," said Weaver's lawyer, Gerry Spence. "The federal government is good at diverting our attention away from the real case and toward a cover-up case."
The government charged that between January and April 1993, Kahoe destroyed a written FBI after-action critique so it would not be available to prosecutors when Weaver and Harris were tried on charges of killing Degan. They later were acquitted.
The government also charged that he ordered an unidentified subordinate at FBI headquarters to destroy all copies of the Ruby Ridge afteraction critique and to make it appear as if the Ruby Ridge critique never existed.
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Women, kids found slain in El Salvador
The Associated Press
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — One woman was found hanging by a rope. Another was thrown down a well. A third woman and four children were dumped in a water tank.
Firefighters removed the decomposing bodies of seven family members from their blood-splattered home yesterday, and police said they had no clues to a motive or suspects in the slayings.
The victims, who ranged in age from 2 to 70, apparently were killed last weekend. The grisly crime shocked the Central American nation, which has been suffering a crime epidemic since the end of its civil war in 1992.
"This was a sadistic and savage act and particularly horrific because it involved children," said National Civil Police representative Rodrigo Avila. "Words cannot describe something so terrible."
The victims all were members of the Gaytan family. The women were 35, 55 and 70 years old; the children were 2, 6, 11 and 12.
Their home, five miles east of the capital, is in a poor neighborhood plagued by gang violence and pocked by graffiti.
A neighbor, who refused to give her name out of fear, told The Associated Press that she had heard nothing unusual during the weekend but that she hadn't seen anyone leave the house since Friday.
Police and firefighters, their faces covered with bandannas because of the stench, used ropes yesterday to haul the bodies of one woman and four children from the underground water tank.
A crowd gathered as the victims were carried out in black plastic bags.
"We are going to punish those responsible, and we will ask for the most severe punishment possible," Avila vowed, visibly upset. Autopsies were planned.
For the last three years, El Salvador has been awash in crime — with bandits, youth gangs and other criminals virtually out of control. The military estimates that 260,000 weapons are still in circulation from the 12-year civil war that killed 70,000 people.
Nuclear waste needs a home
U. S. government accepts disposal order from court
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Clinton administration will comply with a court order and accept for disposal tons of highly radioactive nuclear waste from civilian reactors. Officials say, however, that there's no place to put it right now.
The Energy Department said yesterday it would not challenge an appeals court ruling from July that directed the department, beginning in 1998, to accept spent nuclear fuel now stored at commercial reactors in 34 states.
Assistant Energy Secretary Thomas Grumbly acknowledged that at this time the government did not know where it would put the used reactor fuel. He said he hoped that by 1998 a decision would be made on whether a permanent repository in Nevada was suitable for the material.
"Physically, we can't take the waste," Grumbly said.
Even if the Yucca Mountain site in Nevada is found technically acceptable for underground storage of the estimated 30,000 tons of highly radioactive used fuel now at reactors, that site is not expected to be completed until 2010 at the earliest.
The administration has opposed efforts in Congress to build a temporary storage site in Nevada, arguing that such a decision could jeopardize efforts to find a permanent repository for the fuel, which will remain highly radioactive for hundreds of years.
In a statement yesterday, the Energy Department said, "The department is reviewing its options as to what further steps may be taken."
Grumble said the administration and Congress could not put the nuclear waste issue on the back burner.
In response to a lawsuit filed by nuclear plant operators and some state regulators, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals made a ruling in July. It ruled that the government is obligated by a 1982 law to store the highly radioactive, spent fuel at a centralized location beginning at least by Jan.31,1998.
If it fails to do so, the government will be in violation of its contractual agreement with the electric utilities, the court said, although it did not propose how the government could accept the fuel if it had no storage site.
"We think the best option is to go back to Congress next year with legislation giving DOE authorization for a federal interim storage facility," said Steven Unglesbee, a representative for the Nuclear Energy Institute, an industry trade group.
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