So the Clinton bunch "did" Ruby Ridge.
They of course had no direct part of the operation. Neither did the Bush I administration. It was the Clinton administration directly who supported the actions after the fact. Reno quickly promoted Potts.
Rush was correct.
That would be a neatly sewn up package, except that last I checked, the FBI and Marshal Service are exclusively run by the executive branch.
No, Ruby Ridge was a BATF screwup/malefaction directed by Pres. Bush, as part of their continuing operation aimed at right-wing extremists in Idaho.
Remember, BATF tried to entrap Randy Weaver, who btw was innocent of the original allegation in the ATF complaint: that he'd manufactured a short-barrelled shotgun, a Class II weapon, w/o a license. In fact, when the gun barrel was remeasured by a non-weaselling, non-ATF measurer, it was found to be 18" long precisely, and therefore a legal weapon.
Now, BATF wanted to entrap Weaver to force him to act as an informant on a right-wing group some of whose members he knew. This was grossly wrong and malum in se, but it was SOP in the government's drive to exterminate these groups and put all their leaders in prison. That was a political push outside the scope of the BATF itself, one that was authored at a level high enough to require approval from Pres. Bush himself.
They of course had no direct part of the operation. Neither did the Bush I administration.
True, and not-true. Bush I did have responsibility both for the overall project I just described, and for the tactics to be used in combating these groups -- and in handling people that it intended to "use", like Randy Weaver.
It was the Clinton administration directly who supported the actions after the fact. Reno quickly promoted Potts.
Yes, I concur. They treated Louis Freeh pretty well, too.