William H. Webster recently delivered to the FBI the “Final Report of the William H. Webster Commission on the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Counterterrorism Intelligence, and the Events at Fort Hood, Texas, on November 9, 2009.” The unclassified version of this report can be read here. The report examines the...
Today is the 19th anniversary of the end of the stand-off by the Branch Davidians outside of Waco, Texas. A siege of David Koresh’s compound had begun fifty days earlier on February 28, 1993 when four agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) were killed while serving...
On March 18, 1937, an undetected natural gas leak caused an explosion that killed almost 300 students and teachers at the New London Consolidated School in New London, Texas. Following the disaster, a law was passed that required an additive be mixed with natural gas to give it a pungent...
