My logic is fine. So is yours -- you're not insisting that Poppy wasn't also responsible for the debacle. We're just arguing over the culpability ratio, I guess, which is kinda dumb. One did it and the other defended it. They're both awful.
Would this be a good time to point out that the Larry Potts situation (his having been promoted by higher-ups in the Clinton administration) would have been mitigated perfunctorily, had Bush I been doing his JOB (having not had or at least left him there for Clinton to promote)?
Ruby Ridge was in August of '92. The election was in November and Bush was gone by January. I don't recall how Potts was treated in that time frame. I don't recall the level of investigation at that time by the Bush administration.
As far as Bush I's culpability for what happened, I've described it as being an error of omission. A failure not to rein in the FBI to any potential bad procedures of to any potential rogue agents.
I've seen no evidence of errors by commission.