War Crimes by Clinton and Reno?

Former President Clinton really opened up a can of worms talking about the Murrah Building and blaming the right wing.  A lot of us remember McVeigh said it was a response to the Waco attack.  Instapundit has a link to this:

PROF. KENNETH ANDERSON on Bill Clinton’s culpability at Waco.

An independent report on Waco written by the Harvard Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Alan A. Stone, for the then Deputy Attorney General Philip Heymann, says it “is difficult to believe that the US government would deliberately plan to expose twenty-five children, most of them infants and toddlers, to CS gas for forty-eight hours”. Unfortunately, however, that appears to have been exactly the plan. . . .

Professor Stone’s report is measured, careful and damning. It is hard to know whether Heymann’s courage in commissioning it was a reason for his subsequent departure from the Justice Department. In the mean time, questions about the performance of the Justice Department are treated by the Clinton administration not as serious allegations of criminal activity, but as little more than a below-the-belt salvo in the culture wars.

I was shocked to read in Stone’s report that the Justice Department had undertaken, and had defended in the press as such, activities which if conducted in wartime would constitute war crimes. Because exposing the children to CS gas was the point of the FBI exercise: no children exposed, no pressure.

Be sure to go to the Volokh Conspiracy to read the whole thing. These are lawyers over there and when it comes to these things they know of what they speak.