Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
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LA Times

http://www.latimes.com/wires/20010601/tCB00V4251.html

Friday, June 1, 2001
Davidian Prosecutor Could Go to Jail


    DALLAS--A former federal prosecutor who pleaded guilty to withholding
information about the Branch Davidian siege could face jail time, despite
the government's earlier pledge to recommend probation.
    The government withdrew the pledge, saying Bill Johnston violated his
plea agreement by making statements to a legal journal after his February
guilty plea.
    Sentencing is set for Thursday in St. Louis.
    In the Feb. 19 issue of Texas Lawyer, Johnston was quoted as saying,
"They charged me with obstruction of justice and five counts of false
statements. I did not plead guilty to that and was not guilty of that."
    Legal experts said that without the probation recommendation and
prosecutors' assurance that he accepted responsibility for wrongdoing, a
federal judge could sentence Johnston to six months in federal prison.
    The 1993 siege ended with burning of the compound near Waco and the
deaths of leader David Koresh and some 80 followers.
    Johnston set in motion renewed scrutiny of government missteps in
1999, warning then-attorney general Janet Reno that she and the public
were being misled about the FBI's handling of the tragedy. Johnston
himself admitted withholding information about the use of pyrotechnic tear
gas.
    After his indictment, Johnston said he withheld the notes out of fear
hostile colleagues might try to use them to discredit him and because Waco
special prosecutor John Danforth's investigators "treated me with the same
loathing and hostility that I had encountered from the Justice
Department."
    Investigators eventually concluded the gas did not cause the fire,
and Danforth's report absolved the government of wrongdoing.
    But just Thursday, Danforth told The Washington Post that the FBI was
so uncooperative that he threatened Director Louis Freeh with a search
warrant to gain access to relevant documents.
   
Copyright 2001 Los Angeles Times

BTT

I hope his new boyfreind is Samoan, but he'll probably get a "country club" where they're punished by having only an 8-hole golf course.

[sniper]

Whew!

I was really beginning to think that I couldn't trust my government.

Wait a minute. Isn't this the guy that started the investigation into the FBI's misconduct in the first place? Didn't he send a letter to his boss, Janet Reno, telling her that there was a dead fish in the woodwork? Isn't this the guy who was working with the Texas Rangers and who tried to expose all the coverups? And the same guy who was threatened by the FBI and the Justice dept. to shut up or else very bad things would happen to him and his family?

This is standard spook shit. Protect the spooks and frame an innocent to place the public's focus somewhere else.

I feel like puking [puke]

Greg

Absolutely.  This is the good guy in the case and the Gov't.com is haning him out to dry...

The only ones who know the truth ain't talking. They are dead or on the Govt. payroll. People are just like sheep when it comes to this kind of thing nowadays. They don't want to hear the truth

Sorry.  Now that I've read up on it, I retract my former statement.  You're right.  I'm wrong.  Another whistleblower gets it in the posterior. [:(]

I am only saying this in jest, I don't like this guy anymore many other people on this board.