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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....
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Cowboy killers.
Post should be pinned.
/Why don’t we have a ‘bulletin board’ of “Greatest Posts of FR” (or I need better eyes)??
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. :-)
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?
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