I know how much you love the government...especially the Feds...but I thought you should hear this. You may already know about it.
When the FBI's HRT was formed, Danny Coulson was selected as the first Team Commander. Read his book. He did it right.
10 years later, he's now (I think) a Deputy Director when the whole Ruby Ridge thing goes down. He's not directly involved, but he pens a memo after the initial engagement with the USMS, and the deployment of the FBI HRT. Here's what he wrote:
On about August 24, 1992, the fourth day of the siege on the Weaver family, FBI Deputy Assistant Director
Danny Coulson, who was unaware that Vicki Weaver had been killed,
[111] wrote a memo with the following content:
Something to Consider
1. Charge against Weaver is Bull S___.
2. No one saw Weaver do any shooting.
3. Vicki has no charges against her.
4. Weaver's defense. He ran down the hill to see what dog was barking at. Some guys in camys [camouflage] shot his dog. Started shooting at him. Killed his son. Harris did the shooting. He is in pretty strong legal position.
[112]
They're not all bad. Had Coulson been there from the start, odds are that no one gets hurt, much less dies.
We're not all robots, DTH. Hell, I'd hand you my last mag in a gunfight if I thought you could do better with it than I could.