A friend of mine back then worked in Washington, he told me David Koresh everyday would go jogging alone and the ATF knew that but they decided to take him down the hard way by doing a raid, I assume on Jan-nut Renos orders. And the ultimate result wasn’t just the people and kids in that compound who died, but the 168 people in the Oklahoma city bombing as well as that nut Timothy McVeigh used Waco as an excuse to do that bombing. All they had to do was pick Koresh up while he went jogging and instead all those people and kids ended up losing their lives and there was nary a peep of protest from the left.
After reading 3 different books on this subject, I believe there is not one entity to blame.
David Koresh was a sick man. And anyone dumb enough to follow him (like married grown men who could not have relations with their wives because of Koresh) is partly to blame.
But also a overzealous government agency who has to prove what they are doing is important/worth the money was at fault also. We you spend hours upon hours investigating someone/something, you expect to show fruits for your labor.
And they wanted a BIG prize. Well, they got it. And they got the OKC bombing with it.