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Accountability Collapse: The Cover-Up That Followed Ruby Ridge
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The FBI paid the Weaver family three million dollars while insisting its agents behaved impeccably — both cannot be true. This chapter examines the destroyed documents, the unconstitutional rules of engagement, and the fifteen-day suspensions that passed for justice.
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Here's what's difficult to reconcile. The FBI paid the Weaver family three million dollars.
To understand the cover-up, you first need to understand what was being covered up. When the FBI's Hostage Rescue Team arrived at Ruby Ridge after the initial marshals service firefight, the situation was already volatile.
The trial in nineteen ninety-three was a significant moment. Federal prosecutors charged Randy Weaver with conspiracy and other offenses.
E. Michael Kahoe was a senior FBI official involved in the Ruby Ridge response.
The three million dollar wrongful death settlement came in nineteen ninety-five. The Weaver family accepted it.
Ruby Ridge ended. The siege was resolved after eleven days when civilian negotiator Bo Gritz, a former Green Beret, talked Randy Weaver down from the mountain without further bloodshed.
Timothy McVeigh was at gun shows in the early nineteen nineties distributing literature. He was following Ruby Ridge closely.
The Senate held hearings on Ruby Ridge in nineteen ninety-five. Senior FBI officials testified.
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