Sad news.
RIP Ms Reno.
A stand-up gal. RIP.
I hope she had a chance to cast her absentee ballot.
RIP Ms. Reno. You done good, regardless of what the RWNJs said.
Sad news. She sounds like she had an amazing career, with many challenges (Elian Gonzales, Waco, …)
RIP, Ms Reno.
Sad news this morning. I always liked her
It wasn’t all beer and skittles.
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/04/28/Perspective/Reno_owes_the_public_.shtml
“It was a dangerous situation,” Reno said of the incident during a 2005 lecture at Duke University. “The tragedy is that we will never know what was the right thing to do.”
How self-serving. 76 people die in the incident, the vast majority of whom had not been charged, or even suspected, of a crime. We may not be able to say what the exact right thing to do was, but what was done was certainly the wrong thing.
“Janet Reno’s Dance Party”!
I really enjoyed these two graphs from the Los Angeles Times obit:
Reno had no middle name, according to the Palm Beach Post, because her mother said she was too exhausted from labor to come up with one. Her parents were reporters in Miami, and her mother, by all accounts, was a swashbuckling eccentric who taught her daughter to speak her mind.
Her mother, Jane Wood Reno, built the family house herself in what then was a rural suburb of Miami, originally on 21 acres with a barn, cows and other farm animals not far removed from the Everglades. It was her mother who was known for wrestling alligators, though Janet said she could handle “the little ones.” Janet returned to the family home from Washington to spend the rest of her life.
(emphasis mine)
I agree. The right thing to’ve done was wait for Koresh to go to the damn supermarket, which he did regularly, and then arrest him. Duh!
I wasn’t aware of that. But killing the children in order to protect them from child abuse seemed a tad inappropriate.