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To: Stretch
iT WAS NOT IN THE bUSH ADMINISSTRATION...clinton was the mastermind of this fiasco...

You're going to have a hard time making that case, given that the Ruby Ridge situation occurred five months before Bill Clinton took office.

40 posted on 08/31/2009 2:32:17 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring; Stretch
The usual argument is that ATF, or US Marshals, or someone is seeking to build support for their latest budget request.

Problem is the operating budgets for the year are already in and being processed in April (at the latest).

That means you need a different motive for the mission.

In the case of Waco it was clearly a need to show that ATF women could wield the new semi-auto (fires two rounds) weapons in a tight situation. That is, it was a demonstration project ~ strictly internal ~ nothing to do with budgets. They thought they had a soft target ~ one nut case.

When it comes to Ruby Ridge, the situation was it was nice weather, a little early for "hunting season" but these were federal officers with access to federal lands in the area, and there was the target of the investigation (Randy Weaver and his house) where a couple of guys could stake out while the others on that $13,000 per week per diem fueled hunting vacation could go do something else ~ like hunt!

There is no way management approved that much money for that much per diem for just one perp wanted for a court date he'd missed. A good time for the guys in the shop is a better rationale.

I suspect the supervisory personnel involved in this could still be prosecuted for per diem fraud, grand theft, etc. Maybe Eric Holder would prefer to tag these guys out.

58 posted on 08/31/2009 3:34:26 PM PDT by muawiyah
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