[Political Junkie Too]

I want to know if this is simply a standard boilerplate reminder of the FBI policy on deadly force that is attached to every order approving a raid on a residence or public building.

-PJ

[one guy in new jersey]

With all due respect, it seems impossible that authorization for the FBI to “engage” with a former U.S. president and a fellow Article II law enforcement organization (the Secret Service) would ever qualify as “boilerplate”, however similar the language used might be to that used in previous FBI raids.

How hard would it have been to forego the need even for a “show” of force, much less
blithely pre-authorize its violent or potentially fatal use?

[ClayinVA]

I would assume so and it is used for lawsuit prevention. So they can say before every raid that they reviewed the use of force chart.