Topic: Bug Tapes

Clive Doyle discusses the lack of evidence for Davidian .50 caliber fire and points to the FBI's "bug tapes" as potentially tampered with or spliced. He notes that the surveillance devices failed to capture the hundreds of shots the government claimed were fired from inside the building on the final day.

Survivors maintain that the .50 caliber rifle in their possession was non-functional and never used during the February 28 raid or the April 19 final assault. They point to the absence of .50 caliber fire on FBI "bug tapes" and the fact that they did not use such a weapon against the tanks breaching the building as evidence. They suggest that holes found in government helicopters may have been staged or caused by other means to justify the use of force.