October 8, 1999

Doing Injustice to the FBI: the Negative Myths Perpetuated by Historians

By SUSAN ROSENFELD

On April 19, 1993, I turned on the television to see "breaking news" from Waco, Tex., and watched transfixed as the Branch Davidian building was consumed in flames. Almost immediately, the news media began asking whether the Federal Bureau of Investigation was responsible for setting the fire -- and the allegation will not go away. Having studied the F.B.I. for almost two decades, I find that preposterous. Why is it that Americans are so eager to believe the worst

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