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New York Post, August 24, 2022<\/h2>\n

Ruby Ridge, 30 years ago, helps explain the FBI\u2019s \u2018Gestapo\u2019 image<\/a><\/h1>\n
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By James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In the wake of the massive raid at Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago home, politicians and pundits are hectoring Americans to blindly trust the FBI.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe men and women of the FBI,\u201d Attorney General Merrick Garland proclaimed, \u201care dedicated, patriotic public servants.\u201d But the FBI would be more credible if it didn\u2019t claim a right to secretly wield almost unlimited power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most Americans (53%) view the FBI as \u201cJoe Biden\u2018s personal Gestapo,\u201d a recent Rasmussen poll<\/a> found. FBI actions 30 years ago at Ruby Ridge help explain the G-men\u2019s fall from grace.<\/p>\n

Randy Weaver and his family lived in an isolated cabin in the northern Idaho mountains. Undercover federal agents targeted him and entrapped him into selling a sawed-off shotgun. The feds sought to pressure Weaver to become an informant, but he refused.<\/p>\n

After Weaver was sent the wrong court date and (understandably) failed to show up, the feds used any and all means to take him down. On Aug. 21, 1992, six US Marshals outfitted in full camouflage and toting automatic<\/a> weapons\u00a0trespassed onto Weaver\u2019s property. Marshals circled close\u00a0to the Weaver cabin and threw rocks to provoke the Weavers\u2019 dogs.<\/p>\n

Weaver\u2019s son, Sammy, 14, and Kevin Harris, a 25-year-old family friend living in the cabin, ran to see what the dogs were barking at. Marshals killed one of the dogs, and Sammy fired in their direction. As Sammy was leaving the scene, a marshal shot him in the back and killed him. Harris responded by fatally shooting a marshal who had fired seven shots.<\/p>\n

The FBI sent in its Hostage Rescue Team snipers with orders to shoot-to-kill\u00a0any\u00a0adult male outside the Weaver cabin. A federal appeals court ruling later noted that \u201ca group of FBI agents formulated rules of engagement that permitted their colleagues to hide in the bushes and gun down men who posed no immediate threat. Such wartime rules are patently unconstitutional<\/a> for a police action.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Aug. 22, 1992, FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot Randy Weaver in the back after he stepped out of his cabin. Moments later, Horiuchi shot and killed Vicki Weaver as she stood in the cabin door holding their 10-month-old baby. The FBI initially insisted Mrs. Weaver\u2019s killing was justified but<\/a> later claimed it was an accident.<\/p>\n

Weaver and Harris, who never fired any shots at FBI agents, surrendered after an 11-day siege. After an Idaho jury largely exonerated<\/a> the defendants, federal judge Edward Lodge slammed Department of Justice and FBI misconduct and fabrication of evidence in the case.<\/p>\n

Disregarding the judge\u2019s condemnation, FBI chief Louis Freeh in 1995 exonerated the FBI and portrayed Ruby Ridge as one of the bureau\u2019s finest hours. After I slammed Freeh\u2019s whitewash in The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and elsewhere, Freeh denounced<\/a> my \u201cinflammatory and unfounded allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Five months later, I snared a confidential 542-page Justice Department report on Ruby Ridge, excerpting its damning findings<\/a> in a Wall Street Journal piece. The coverup unraveled, and the feds paid the Weaver family $3.1 million to settle their wrongful-death lawsuit. A top FBI official was sent to prison for destroying key evidence.<\/p>\n

After an Idaho prosecutor indicted Horiuchi for manslaughter in 1998, the Clinton Justice Department swayed a federal court to dismiss the case\u00a0based on the Constitution\u2019s \u201csupremacy clause<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0But the Founding Fathers never intended for \u201cfederal supremacy\u201d to nullify the entire Bill of Rights.<\/strong> Solicitor General Seth Waxman absolved the sniper because<\/a> \u201cfederal law-enforcement officials are privileged to do what would otherwise be unlawful if done by a private citizen.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How far do those privileges extend? In 2012, Americans learned that FBI counterterrorism training taught agents that \u201cthe FBI has the ability to bend or suspend the law to impinge on the freedom<\/a> of others.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Ruby Ridge was not an aberration as far as outrageous FBI misconduct.<\/strong> The bureau conducted a vendetta against the cattle-ranching Bundy family in Nevada, but a federal judge dismissed all charges in 2018 and declared that \u201ca universal sense of justice has been violated\u201d by their prosecution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the Orlando Pulse nightclub massacre left 49 people dead, the FBI browbeat the killer\u2019s widow into signing a false confession<\/a> that resulted in a disastrous courtroom defeat for the feds. (The FBI also deceived Americans by refusing to disclose that the mass murderer\u2019s father was a long-term FBI informant.)<\/p>\n

A top FBI lawyer was convicted of lying<\/a> to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to get warrants to surveil the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. And the FBI had a starring role in the coverup of Hunter Biden\u2019s \u201cLaptop from Hell.\u201d<\/p>\n

The FBI has always used its \u201cgood guys\u201d image to shroud its crimes. Team Biden might claim that only pro-Trump fanatics would ever equate the FBI and the Gestapo. But back in 1945, President Harry Truman lamented, \u201cWe want no Gestapo or Secret Police. FBI is tending in that direction.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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