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FBI veteran gives authorities high marks for Malheur crackdown
High Country News ^ | 1-28-16 | Elizabeth Shogren

Posted on 01/28/2016 1:56:19 PM PST by Gandalf the Mauve

Clint Van Zandt served in the FBI for 25 years, including about six as the agency's chief hostage negotiator. He was involved in many major negotiations, including with David Koresh, the leader of the so-called Branch Davidians, whose compound near Waco, Texas, was the focus of a 1993 siege by federal agents, which ended in the deaths of more than 80 people.

Since retiring from the FBI, Van Zandt has run a corporate security firm. He spoke to High Country News by telephone from Virginia on Wednesday and Thursday. As of early Thursday, the FBI had arrested 11 people and planned to "continue to work around the clock to empty the refuge of the armed occupiers in the safest way possible."

High Country News: What's your impression of how the FBI is handling the Malheur Refuge occupation?

Clint Van Zandt: The authorities both federal and state and local showed infinite patience. The FBI did what they should have done, kept a low profile, allowing the state and the sheriff to do the upfront negotiations. They gave it a chance to resolve itself....

(Excerpt) Read more at hcn.org ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: bundy; fbi; lawenforcement; malheur; oregon; sedition; talibundy; yallqaeda
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If you would like more information about what's happening in Oregon, please FReepmail me.

I lost my Oregon list when my computer crashed last year, so please send me your name by FReepmail if you want to be on this list.

21 posted on 01/28/2016 4:27:36 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Gandalf the Mauve

Cowboy killers.


22 posted on 01/28/2016 4:46:49 PM PST by Lopeover (2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States)
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To: TigersEye

Post should be pinned.

/Why don’t we have a ‘bulletin board’ of “Greatest Posts of FR” (or I need better eyes)??


23 posted on 01/28/2016 5:37:02 PM PST by i_robot73 ("A man chooses. A slave obeys." - Andrew Ryan)
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To: i_robot73

Ah, well, flattery will get you everywhere! lol

No bulletin board of best posts but you could always make
your own website for that. Or use your profile page. :-)


24 posted on 01/28/2016 5:53:14 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Gandalf the Mauve

You can’t be serious.
“A professional perspective” from a former Fed who participated in the Waco massacre? Praising the Feds for their performance in this ambush and extrajudicial execution?
Who are you working for, n00b?


25 posted on 01/28/2016 7:31:04 PM PST by mumblypeg (Reality is even more complicated than the internet.)
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