What happened after the jury voted to indict?
McKINLEY: We had a little disagreement as to whom to indict. If the case had gone as the government planned, we would have indicted various workers at the plant. The people who went out there, earned a day’s wage and followed orders. Those were not the responsible people. It would have done nothing to enforce environmental laws. It would have targeted the throwaway people, and things would have gone on as usual. They would have replaced one valve-turner with another. We wanted to get the people responsible so that we could actually enforce environment laws. These were the people in the DOE and the executives in the higher echelon of Rockwell International who, we felt, actually committed the crimes. You followed the paper trail right to these people? McKINLEY: That’s correct, and we did that in opposition to the prosecutors. How did the prosecution react? McKINLEY: They told us that we could not indict these people. So we reviewed our instructions and the grand-jury oath we had taken-t
