Are Elian and Davidian Kids Among Those At-Risk Children She Likes to Work With?
Reno said she had no hesitation about returning to South Florida after last year’s Elian Gonzalez controversy. Reno ordered the boy’s forcible removal from Miami relatives in April, returning the child to his Cuban father. She insisted Cuban-American friends in Miami would understand why she acted as she did once she had a chance “to sit down and talk with people.” “The most difficult moment was Waco,” Reno said. She authorized an FBI raid that ended with the cult compound engulfed in flames and more than 80 people, a score of them children, dead. Though multiple independent investigations found that the Branch Davidians and their children died in a fire set by cult leaders, through suicide or at the hands of cult leaders, the memory still haunts her. Reno also oversaw the largest decrease in violent crime in modern times. “I haven’t made the difference in this department,” Reno said Thursday. “Anything that I’ve done in this department is because of the people who work in this departm
