There’s no lies like government lies. David Koresh went to town on a regular basis. A warrant could have been served there. They wanted this firefight. Anyway the men, women and children they wanted killed were killed so job complete. May God judge the murdering FBI for their deeds.
They wanted the firefight for budget reasons.
Needed a firefight to justify having a paramilitary force on the books.
Local ATF management wanted to do the raid because they needed to justify their SWAT team budget.