GETTING THE STORY STRAIGHT

Tuesday, Sept. 26, 1995
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John Magaw, director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, has backed off comments that the FBI bungled the 1993 standoff in Waco. Monday, Magaw said: "I believe that had we been left in charge of the Waco incident, we would not have burned that building." Tuesday, after a talking-to by Janet Reno and FBI director Louis Freeh: "I need to make perfectly clear David Koresh, not Attorney General Reno or the FBI, was responsible for the fire."