{"id":14195,"date":"2019-11-27T09:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=14195"},"modified":"2019-11-27T09:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T14:35:46","slug":"ruby-ridge-and-deval-patrick-the-542-page-doj-report-patrick-scorned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/27\/ruby-ridge-and-deval-patrick-the-542-page-doj-report-patrick-scorned\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Ridge and Deval Patrick: The 542 Page DOJ Report Patrick Scorned"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my USA Today piece on Deval Patrick<\/a>, I mentioned the 542 page confidential Justice Department task force report on Ruby Ridge which was compiled after an Idaho jury trounced the FBI and Justice Department in the Randy Weaver trial. Patrick dismissed the findings of that report and exonerated the FBI, helping spur widespread fears that federal agents had a license to kill.\u00a0 I came into possession of that report in June 1995; here is the Wall Street Journal piece<\/a> I wrote about it.\u00a0 The FBI coverup collapsed in the following months.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal
\nFriday, June 30, 1995
\nRuby Ridge: The Justice Report
\nBy James Bovard<\/p>\n

The 1992 confrontation between federal agents and the Randy Weaver family in Ruby Ridge,
\nIdaho, has become one of the most controversial and widely discussed examples of the abuse of
\nfederal power. The Justice Department completed a 542-page investigation on the case last year
\nbut has not yet made the report public. However, the report was acquired by Legal Times
\nnewspaper, which this week placed the text on the Internet. The report reveals that federal
\nofficials may have acted worse than even some of their harshest critics imagined.<\/p>\n

This case began after Randy Weaver was entrapped, as an Idaho jury concluded, by an
\nundercover Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms agent to sell him sawed-off shotguns.<\/p>\n

While federal officials have claimed that the violent confrontation between the Weavers and the
\ngovernment began when the Weavers ambushed federal marshals, the report tells a very different
\nstory. A team of six U.S. marshals, split into two groups, trespassed onto Mr. Weaver’s land on
\nAug. 21, 1992. One of the marshals threw rocks at the Weaver’s cabin to see how much noise was
\nrequired to agitate the Weaver’s dogs. A few minutes later, Randy Weaver, Kevin Harris, and 13-
\nyear-old Sammy Weaver came out of the cabin and began following their dogs. Three U.S.
\nmarshals were soon tearing through the woods.<\/p>\n

At one point, U.S. Marshal Larry Cooper “told the others that it was [‘expletive deleted’] for them
\nto continue running and that he did not want to ‘run down the trail and get shot in the back.’ He
\nurged them to take up defensive positions. The others agreed. . . . William Degan . . . took a
\nposition behind a stump. . . .”<\/p>\n

As Sammy Weaver and Kevin Harris came upon the marshals, gunfire erupted. Sammy was shot
\nin the back and killed while running away from the scene (probably by Marshal Cooper, according
\nto the report), and Marshal Degan was killed by Mr. Harris. The jury concluded that Mr. Harris’s
\naction was legitimate self-defense; the Justice report concluded it was impossible to know who
\nshot first.<\/p>\n

Several places in the report deal with the possibility of a government coverup. After the firefight
\nbetween the marshals and the Weavers and Mr. Harris, the surviving marshals were taken away to
\nrest and recuperate. The report observed, “We question the wisdom of keeping the marshals
\ntogether at the condominium for several hours, while awaiting interviews with the FBI. Isolating
\nthem in that manner created the appearance and generated allegations that they were fabricating
\nstories and colluding to cover up the true circumstances of the shootings.”<\/p>\n

After the death of the U.S. marshal, the FBI was called in. A source of continuing fierce debate
\nacross America is: Did the FBI set out to apprehend and arrest Randy Weaver and Kevin Harris —
\nor simply to kill them? Unfortunately, the evidence from the Justice Department report is damning
\nin the extreme on this count.<\/p>\n

The report noted, “We have been told by observers on the scene that law enforcement personnel
\nmade statements that the matter would be handled quickly and that the situation would be ‘taken
\ndown hard and fast.”‘ The FBI issued Rules of Engagement that declared that its snipers “can and
\nshould” use deadly force against armed males outside the cabin. The report noted that a member
\nof an FBI SWAT team from Denver “remembered the Rules of Engagement as ‘if you see ’em,
\nshoot ’em.”‘ The task force report noted, “since those Rules which contained ‘should’ remained in
\nforce at the crisis scene for days after the August 22 shooting, it is inconceivable to us that FBI
\nHeadquarters remained ignorant of the exact wording of the Rules of Engagement during that
\nentire period.”<\/p>\n

The report concluded that the FBI Rules of Engagement at Ruby Ridge flagrantly violated the
\nU.S. Constitution: “The Constitution allows no person to become ‘fair game’ for deadly force
\nwithout law enforcement evaluating the threat that person poses, even when, as occurred here, the
\nevaluation must be made in a split second.” The report portrays the rules of engagement as
\npractically a license to kill: “The Constitution places the decision on whether to use deadly force
\non the individual agent; the Rules attempted to usurp this responsibility.”<\/p>\n

FBI headquarters rejected an initial operation plan because there was no provision to even attempt
\nto negotiate the surrender of the suspects. The plan was revised to include a negotiation provision
\n— but subsequent FBI action made that provision a nullity. FBI snipers took their positions around
\nthe Weaver cabin a few minutes after 5 p.m. on Aug. 22. Within an hour, every adult in the cabin
\nwas either dead or severely wounded — even though they had not fired a shot at any FBI agent.<\/p>\n

Randy Weaver, Mr. Harris, and 16-year-old Sara Weaver stepped out of the cabin a few minutes
\nbefore 6 p.m. to go to the shed where Sammy’s body lay. FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot Randy
\nWeaver in the back. As Randy Weaver, Mr. Harris, and Sara Weaver struggled to get back into
\nthe cabin, Vicki Weaver stood in the cabin doorway holding a baby. Agent Horiuchi fired again;
\nhis bullet passed through a window in the door, hit Vicki Weaver in the head, killing her instantly,
\nand then hit Mr. Harris in the chest.<\/p>\n

At the subsequent trial, the government claimed that Messrs. Weaver and Harris were shot
\nbecause they had threatened to shoot at a helicopter containing FBI officials. Because of
\ninsufficient evidence, the federal judge threw out the charge that Messrs. Weaver and Harris
\nthreatened the helicopter. The Justice report noted, “The SIOC [Strategic Information and
\nOperations Center at FBI headquarters] Log indicates that shots were fired during the events of
\nAugust 22. . . . We have found no evidence during this inquiry that shots fired at any helicopter
\nduring the Ruby Ridge crisis. The erroneous entry was never corrected.” (The Idaho jury found
\nMessrs. Weaver and Harris innocent on almost all charges.)<\/p>\n

The Justice Department task force expressed grave doubts about the wisdom of the FBI strategy:
\n“From information received at the Marshals Service, FBI management had reason to believe that
\nthe Weaver\/Harris group would respond to a helicopter in the vicinity of the cabin by coming
\noutside with firearms. Notwithstanding this knowledge, they placed sniper\/observers on the
\nadjacent mountainside with instructions that they could and should shoot armed members of the
\ngroup, if they came out of the cabin. Their use of the helicopter near the cabin invited an
\naccusation that the helicopter was intentionally used to draw the Weaver group out of the cabin.”<\/p>\n

The task force was extremely critical of Agent Horiuchi’s second shot: “Since the exchange of
\ngunfire [the previous day], no one at the cabin had fired a shot. Indeed, they had not even
\nreturned fire in response to Horiuchi’s first shot. Furthermore, at the time of the second shot,
\nHarris and others outside the cabin were retreating, not attacking. They were not retreating to an
\narea where they would present a danger to the public at large. . . .”<\/p>\n

Regarding Agent Horiuchi’s killing of Vicki Weaver, the task force concluded, “[B]y fixing his
\ncross hairs on the door, when he believed someone was behind it, he placed the children and Vicki
\nWeaver at risk, in violation of even the special Rules of Engagement. . . . In our opinion he
\nneedlessly and unjustifiably endangered the persons whom he thought might be behind the door.”<\/p>\n

The Justice Department task force was especially appalled that the adults were gunned down
\nbefore receiving any warning or demand to surrender: “While the operational plan included a
\nprovision for a surrender demand, that demand was not made until after the shootings. . . . The
\nlack of a planned ‘call out’ as the sniper\/observers deployed is significant because the Weavers
\nwere known to leave the cabin armed when vehicles or airplanes approached. The absence of such
\na plan subjected the Government to charges that it was setting Weaver up for attack.”<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Mr. Bovard writes often on public policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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