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<blockquote data-quote="fishtm2001" data-source="post: 5365845" data-attributes="member: 54375">&quot;In both cases, the federal government made key decisions based on data that was just plain wrong. The standoff at Ruby Ridge might never have happened to begin with if the federal government hadn&#039;t exaggerated to itself how dangerous Randy Weaver was: As the director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, later said, &quot;One misstatement of fact exaggerated to another one, into a huge pile of information that was just dead wrong.&quot;The next year, at Waco, bad intelligence didn&#039;t launch the standoff — it ended it. Attorney General Janet Reno made the decision to tear-gas the Branch Davidian compound based in part on reports that children were being abused by Koresh and the Davidians during the siege. Those reports came from the FBI — presumably from an agent who knew that fighting child abuse was one of Reno&#039;s priorities. But they didn&#039;t come from the FBI director — he knew the reports to be false.&quot;Vox</blockquote>

[QUOTE="fishtm2001, post: 5365845, member: 54375"] "In both cases, the federal government made key decisions based on data that was just plain wrong. The standoff at Ruby Ridge might never have happened to begin with if the federal government hadn't exaggerated to itself how dangerous Randy Weaver was: As the director of the FBI, Louis Freeh, later said, "One misstatement of fact exaggerated to another one, into a huge pile of information that was just dead wrong." The next year, at Waco, bad intelligence didn't launch the standoff — it ended it. Attorney General Janet Reno made the decision to tear-gas the Branch Davidian compound based in part on reports that children were being abused by Koresh and the Davidians during the siege. Those reports came from the FBI — presumably from an agent who knew that fighting child abuse was one of Reno's priorities. But they didn't come from the FBI director — he knew the reports to be false." Vox [/QUOTE]

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