According to her father, Jewell was too upset to tell anyone about the incident until after he won custody of her in 1992. They reported it to authorities in Texas, but were told that convicting Koresh would be difficult. It was only last week- after years of therapy-that “Kiri wanted to tell her secret,” her father said.
Democrats who recruited her to testify learned only days before how gripping her story really was; they withheld it from Republicans until just moments before her testimony. The GOPs went “ballistic,” and tried to remove her, but it was too late, said one Democratic aide. Stunned Republicans didn’t offer a single hostile question. Admitted one GOP staffer: “We just let it slide.”
