After a BATF agent failed to recruit Randy Weaver to spy on a white supremist group, Randy was asked to shorten shotguns for sale. He cut them to the minimum legal length and sold them to a BATF buyer. The shotguns were placed in a freezer and measured. Slightly under the legal limit, the barrel length was used as the basis for a Notice to Appear. Randy was not notified of a change of his hearing to an earlier date for his hearing, so he missed it. That enabled the BATF to have an arrest warrant issued. The rest is a mess documented in court records, his family. More to come.

Cited as a reason for the bombing of the Murrah Building.

NOTES:

Lon Horiuchi of "Sierra 4" sniper team was described as the HRT's top sniper. He was a West Point graduate. DOJ decided not to charge him with anything. I heard that he was involved in a trial on this issue of Ruby Ridge. I do not know the outcome. In August 1994, Gerry Spence, Weaver's attorney, brought two actions against (1) the agents in a wrongful death suit, and (2) a Bivens action against the Federal government. I have no sure info on the outcome of either case.

It does not appear that Eugene Glenn was promoted. He was censured along with Larry Potts (12 FBI Agents were disciplined - hand slapped), who was subsequently appointed to the #2 position in the FBI. Glenn was also suspended without pay I feel Glenn was instrumental in getting the congressional hearings started after Sen. Orrin Hatch, (R) Utah, had killed them when he led the fight to stop Sen. Arlen Specte's, (R) Pennsylvania, call for hearings. They were delayed indefinitely. Subsequently they were held, but ample time for cover-up had passed. Interestingly, in Bock's book he mentions an acronym, "A-SAC," which meant, "assistant spackle agent-in-charge" Glenn charged the FBI with a cover-up and there was considerable coverage in the major newspapers before the hearings of these charges. Starting in the NY Times in May 1995, under the name David Johnston and continuing under several articles. I believe the David Johnston to be David Cay Johnston who, in my opinion, is a shill of the IRS.

Richard Rogers, former HRT head, was censured and suspended. He appears to have subsequently resigned.

During the hearings, the Federal government paid Weaver wither 1.3 million or 3.1 million as a result of the Bevins action settlement.

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A Painful Purge at the FBI

Though the ATF is the pet demon of the militant right, it is the FBI that handled the violent conclusions of two infamous confrontations: the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. This week two House subcommittees will open hearings into the Waco assault; in the fall, hearings will delve into the FBI "shoot-on-sight" orders that some critics believe were responsible for the Idaho death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver.

Last week FBI director Louis Freeh signaled his intent to cooperate with both investigations and to restore order and morale within the FBI. In a move that took a heavy personal toll, Freeh demoted deputy director Larry Potts, 47, a 21-year veteran long under fire for his supervision of the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges. Freeh and Potts had been close friends and confidants since 1990, when they were detailed to Atlanta and successfully prosecuted a murderous mail bomber. They soon became the FBI's odd couple. Freeh was the steely, immaculately tailored prosecutor whom colleagues respected and feared; Potts was the kindly, slightly rumpled investigator agents admired and loved. Three months ago, when Potts was promoted to the No. 2 spot, Freeh boasted, "He is the very best the FBI has." Last week Freeh said Potts was "unable to effectively perform his duties" and reassigned his friend to the FBI's training division in Quantico, Virginia. Many agents felt that Potts was getting a bum rap; they believe he was one of the agency's staunchest defenders of civil rights principles.

Potts had seemed to redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists he did not.
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July 24, 1995 Volume 146, No. 4

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COVER BOX

A Painful Purge at the FBI

Though the ATF is the pet demon of the militant right, it is the FBI that handled the violent conclusions of two infamous confrontations: the 1992 standoff at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, and the 1993 siege in Waco, Texas. This week two House subcommittees will open hearings into the Waco assault; in the fall, hearings will delve into the FBI "shoot-on-sight" orders that some critics believe were responsible for the Idaho death of Vicki Weaver, the wife of white separatist Randy Weaver.

Last week FBI director Louis Freeh signaled his intent to cooperate with both investigations and to restore order and morale within the FBI. In a move that took a heavy personal toll, Freeh demoted deputy director Larry Potts, 47, a 21-year veteran long under fire for his supervision of the Waco and Ruby Ridge sieges. Freeh and Potts had been close friends and confidants since 1990, when they were detailed to Atlanta and successfully prosecuted a murderous mail bomber. They soon became the FBI's odd couple. Freeh was the steely, immaculately tailored prosecutor whom colleagues respected and feared; Potts was the kindly, slightly rumpled investigator agents admired and loved. Three months ago, when Potts was promoted to the No. 2 spot, Freeh boasted, "He is the very best the FBI has." Last week Freeh said Potts was "unable to effectively perform his duties" and reassigned his friend to the FBI's training division in Quantico, Virginia. Many agents felt that Potts was getting a bum rap; they believe he was one of the agency's staunchest defenders of civil rights principles.

Potts had seemed to redeem himself last April, when he expertly handled the FBI's investigation of the Oklahoma City blast. But last week he came under renewed scrutiny after another FBI official, E. Michael Kahoe, admitted destroying documents collected during an internal investigation of the Ruby Ridge episode. Now congressional investigators must confront several questions: Did Kahoe act on the orders of a superior, possibly Potts? And did the destroyed papers contain the identity of the official who issued the shoot-on-sight order? At least one FBI agent has charged that Potts gave the signal. Potts insists he did not.

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8/21/1992 - The Ruby Ridge Massacre: Agents of the United States Marshal's Service and Federal Bureau of Investigation ambush the home of Randy Weaver, a white separatist'not supremacist'subsistence hunter, living in the mountains of Boundary County, idaho, and kill his teenage son. The next day his wife Vicki is shot between the eyes by FBI Hostage Rescue Team member Lon Horiuchi, while holding their eight-month-old baby'all over a minor weapons violation.
'Fugitive Wife Killed in Shootout at Mountain Cabin, Officials Say,' New York Times, 29 August 1992, 10.

8/21/1997 - Boundary County (idaho) Prosecutor Denise Woodbury files murder charges against Kevin Harris, who helped Randy Weaver defend his home during the Ruby Ridge Massacre, and was acquitted of manslaughter charges in the same incident (the killing of Deputy United States Marshal William Degan) by a Federal court; but only manslaughter charges against Federal Bureau of Investigation Hostage Rescue Team member Lon Horiuchi, who shot Weaver's wife Vicki, while holding the couples eight month old baby. In the case of Harris, this is Double Jeopardy, which is prohibited by the idaho constitution of 1890, article I, section 13.
Ronald J. Ostrow, 'FBI Sniper Charged in Killing at Ruby Ridge,' Los Angeles Times, 22 August 1997, A1, 23.

Convicted murderer Charles Manson (incarcerated for the past 28 years) is transferred from california's Corcoran Prison to its most secure Pelican Bay facility, after being caught trafficking drugs and testing positive twice for drug use. Reinforcing the failure of the 'War on Drugs,' in that illegal drugs cannot be kept out of state prisons'let alone a 'free' society.
'Manson Moved to Pelican Bay After Being Found With Drugs,' Los Angeles Times, 22 August 1997, A16.

1/12/1998 - Federal judge Edward J. Lodge, of the idaho district court, dismisses manslaughter charges against Federal Bureau of Investigation sharpshooter Lon Horiuchi, for his role in the Ruby Ridge Massacre, be moved out of idaho court and into Federal court, where he will receive a more sympathetic hearing, and limiting the chances that the jury will be drawn from Boundary County. Judge Lodge concludes there was a 'probable connection' between his official duties as a Hostage Rescue Team member and the killing, in which there were no hostages to be rescued.
Kim Murphy, 'FBI Agent is Granted Trial in U.S. Court,' Los Angeles Times, 13 January 1998, A3. 

12/12/2002 - The Clemency Board, of the confederate state of florida, which is comprised of Republican (fascist/socialist) governor Jeb Bush (brother of de facto President George W. Bush) and his Cabinet, votes to restore the voting rights of E. Michael Kahoe. Kahoe, the former Assistant Director for the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Violent Crime and Major Offender's section, pleaded guilty in 1997 to one count of obstruction of justice. Kahoe ordered the destruction of an FBI report which implicates the FBI in the Ruby Ridge Massacre. As a convicted felon, Kahoe would not normally be allowed to vote in florida.
'Rights of FBI Agent Guilty in Ruby Ridge Case Restored,' Los Angeles Times, 13 December 2002, A37.