I am not apologising for LH. The fact is he was/is a coldhearted killer, thats what he does and he does it without remorse. The ATF hired him, put him in position gave him the gun and the ammo and the ROE.I do not hold him pesonaly responsible, he is a killing machine that does what he knows and he did it under the cover of the ATF.
As bad as I hate the BATF, LH wasn't one of them as well as I remember. I believe he was FBI.
Same thing... only different.
He should be allowed to argue, in his defense, that he had a reasonable belief that his actions were lawful. Indeed, I would argue that in any criminal trial, the fact that a defendant had a reasonable belief that his actions were lawful(*) should preclude a finding of guilt for anything beyond a civil infraction. The $50,000 question would be whether a jury would find the defendant's belief reasonable.
(*) More generally, I would suggest that a reasonable belief that a particular action was no worse than a particular level of offense should generally preclude prosecution for anything more than a level up.
He’s an FBI killer. Almost as bad as being a BATFag, though.