It was a tragic mess, with both sides attempting to deal with the fruit of false doctrine with the arm of the flesh. But it was not enough to arrest Koresh, which that should have been done and which they had done before and brought to trial for the murder of his rival (which “saint” pope Damasus 1 engaged in himself) which resulted in a hung jury, but the problem was the compound, in which child abuse was occurring and had a lot of firearms in expectation for an apocalyptic battle. The ATF actually had an undercover agent who went to a “Bible study” in the compound shortly before the raid.
It seems the media forced the hand of the ATF by exposing the testimony of abuse, and then a photographer tipped off Koresh about the raid by telling a postman who was a member of the clan about the imminent raid, thus losing the element of surprise by the ATF, which resorted to overwhelming force.
That Koresh even gained around 75 followers in tragic, and which should have been confronted by churches before this. Too bad the gov. did not get a sound preacher on loudspeakers to blast the compound with Biblical reproof of both the doctrine of Koresh and his sins, and means of apocalyptic warfare.
The deep state doesn't work like that. The government fed the media propaganda in preparation for the attack. Do you really think Honda Accord driving reporters have more investigative resources than Fedzilla? The government fed the reporters everything they wanted them to know, then invited them along to the big event to record their awesomeness.