Clive Doyle, Branch Davidian Survivor, Congressional Testimony Critique
Clive Doyle, one of nine survivors of the 1993 Branch Davidian siege in Waco, Texas, discusses his recent testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives. Doyle critiques the congressional hearings as a political smoke screen that failed to address whether government agencies broke the law or committed perjury. He expresses disappointment that the proceedings focused on irrelevant material rather than the legality of the government's actions during the 51-day ordeal.
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00:01 I love Mike Hanson Archives. Hello Austin, Texas we are back and we've got a very interesting show here tonight joining us in the studio i want to welcome a survivor from the Branch Davidian ordeal in Waco Mr Clive Doyle
00:41 Clive as I mentioned to you, this is going to be a touching interview for me because there was a lot of feelings about all that and so essentially folks we are gonna take some calls here in a little bit. I want to just give-I want to make sure that Clive has as much too gets as much opportunity to say whatever he wants to say now where... I just want to mention that you were one of the Branch Davidians, you stayed through the whole 51 days. I was there the whole time and one of only nine survivors Okay And you recently testified before the US House because i sat and watched part of your on C-SPAN so I know that was you which as far as I'm concerned didn't amount to a hill of beans As far as the actual outcome of what? I had a lot of high hopes prior to the hearings but
01:40 I didn't come on until toward the end in the second week. and having seen what was going on prior to my getting there, my hopes were kind of dashed. There's too much politics and a lot of people and material brought out that had nothing to do with the issues which were did the government break the law? Did they perjure themselves or did they make bad decisions things like that this is what they're supposed be looking into and yet they brought in so much stuff it was basically a smoke screen just to cover up the real issues you know right Before we get into the... I want to just, if you could Clive, just basically give a short explanation of some of the Branch Davidian beliefs. How many are there and that kind of thing? Well there's more than one group of Branch Davidians currently Those that studied under David
