After finding no evidence of survivors the HRT agents left the structure. As we saw above, the tank drivers collapsed one section of the building onto the trapdoor and jitterbugged the tank over the tunnel. Rather, if the HRT did go into the tunnels, it is more likely that they went to make sure no one was alive. When questioned on why she did not send helicopters over the inferno equipped with fire retardants, Janet Reno said she did not want to risk the lives of the helicopter pilots, whom the Davidians might attempt to shoot down. The deliberate murder of mothers and children is still officially frowned upon in the US, and incompatible with the warm and fuzzy image desired by the US military.
Loose lips sink ships.
The interesting thing about a contemporaneous report, such as this, is that The Washington Post story was written before the official date of recovery of the first body from the concrete room. Even if Jamar's quote were an invention of the reporter, we must then wonder how the reporter became clairvoyant. The Mt. Carmel Center was under Judge Collier's local jurisdiction. This was the day before the official medical examiner team of Drs. If he had, he could have saved himself an unnecessary trip.