. >> almost two weeks into the siege, janet reno was sworn in as attorney general of the united states. briefed on the situation in waco, she endorsed the fbi's plan to be patient and wait out the crisis. >> as the siege entered its third week, the fbi turned up the heat. >> waiting did not mean doing nothing. authorities bombarded the compound with noise and light. and sometimes cut the electricity and phones for hours at a time. then another major turning point. the fbi tactical team deployed tanks as a physical show of force. >> now i'm like, wow, this looks like a war zone. >> it seemed like during the siege, if we did what they asked the next thing the guys on the ground, the tactical team smashing out the vehicles and smashing up bulldozing the trees down. it's like every time we did it, comply with them, they were punishing us in one way or another. >> as the tension mounted and the press coverage grew, the siege drew both curious onlookers and protesters, many of them gun rights supporters. one of them named timothy mcveigh. months later he would bomb the government building in

. >> in washington, attorney general janet reno announces the arrest. >> i am pleased to announce thatf the individuals believed to be responsible for wednesday's terrible attack has been arrested. i remind everyone that john doe number two remains at large. >> you murderer! >> when mcveigh is taken from the local courthouse to be transported to oklahoma city, he is met by an angry crowd and screams of "baby killer." >> rot in hell. >> is it the act of someone which the united states government in its entire ill? >> i was so hoping that it was not an american. it's hard to believe americans blowing up americans. >> it just boggled my mind. >> what tim mcveigh did was the worst act of domestic terrorism in american history. the entire country was shocked and riveted that somebody could come from white-bred suburbia and create such a hellacious act. >> i have a daughter that's 3 and to think she'll grow up in this is scary. >> investigators are certain that mcveigh is the john doe number one in the police sketch, but they still have not identified john doe number two. >> john doe number

. >> attorney general janet reno called us to a meeting. essentially what we said to her was the reason you should publish this is somebody out there has seen these words before and they're going to recognize him by his words. >> "the washington post" publishes the manifesto on september 19th, 1995. >> after the publication of the unabomber manifesto, we received almost 55,000 calls. we had wives turning in their husbands. we had girlfriends turning in their boyfriends. we had all kinds of people submitting written samples of people's work. >> among the thousands of people who believed they recognized the style of the writer is linda patrick, the wife of ted kaczynski's brother david. >> david kaczynski's wife was on sabbatical in paris and saw excerpts from the manifesto. she recognized the phrasing because david had showed her letters from ted and told her about ted's preoccupations. >> i think it's partly that the voice in the manifesto is a chicago voice. phrases or just the grammar, perhaps. >> the kaczynski brothers have been estrange

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legally required to implement the holder memorandum but when we issued the one that i wrote for janet reno in october of 93, we codified, those be that standard in our regulations and other agencies did as well. that's good policy good practice to do so. it's inexplicable why that hasn't happened. fifth, exemption number three but has indicated in my written testimony, there's a strong potential for one or the other committee on the hill. this committee or the counter committee on on the house, to look at the academic groundwork we've done at my secrets is it because we found that barely half of them were 300 exemption three statutes reported as used by federal agencies actually qualified as exemption three statutes when you look at it carefully. and six is something you of our discussed which is ogis. i know that you're very focused on that as well. spent thank you all and i apologize by have to go to a vote so we will have two clothes they hearing. i want to thank all the. i want to thank the chairman and the ranking member and again each of you. will hold the record open for one week fo

the clinton administration -- and this was coming largely through janet reno, the attorney general then -- there was real concern that this event in laramie could explode into a national catastrophe. there was concern -- remember that oklahoma city bombing happened under bill clinton. the waco incident happened under bill clinton. and there was a concern that the polarizing around this case could perhaps lead to some explosion of violence in laramie. i know that at the very beginning of the case there was talk, the federal government was talking about prosecuting this case as a federal case, and cal aruka was standing in the background. and after a couple of weeks, you know, i don't know if it was two weeks, three weeks, the federal government then basically said we're bowing out, and we want you to prosecute the case. there was also a kind of a promise that was made veryally that the federal government would support -- verbally that the federal government would support the prosecutions. and, in fact, other than a little bit of help with forensic testing, the support from the federal go