Thanks for the elucidation. I knew some of the above, but not all.
Is the ATF as bad as it was then?
A woman I know met one of the ATF agents who was killed at Mt. Carmel -- I think he was the one who went inside the dormitory and was killed there. You may recall the footage of rounds coming through the roof from the inside, and one of the agents on the roof being injured. (I thought at the time that that may have been someone using a Barrett -- the holes were big enough, and Koresh is known to have had one or two.) She told me he was very dashing, very gung-ho, a real swashbuckler. She really liked him and regretted greatly his being killed but wasn't surprised he'd be the first one in the building, even in a very hairy situation.
That's the kind of guys they were attracting then.