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...negotiator Jeffrey Jamar, who recommended the plan to end the siege with a tear gas assault, challenged a cult lawyer's assertion that "some desk-bound bureaucrat in Washington" overrode a negotiated surrender agreement between the FBI and Branch Davidians. Jamar, who made the call, said evidence suggested that cult leader David Koresh's offer to surrender was nothing but a ruse. Koresh, said Jamar, "constantly would make promises he did not keep...
...over his role in a bloody 1992 standoff with white separatist Randy Weaver in Idaho. At issue is whether Potts approved a much criticized shoot-on-sight order. The removal came just as the House is to start hearings on another operation Potts helped manage: the assault on the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas...
...raid planners had chosen a direct assault in part because they believed Koresh never left the Branch Davidian compound, and thus could never be isolated from his followers. But Koresh did leave the compound--several times in late 1992 and only weeks before the February 1993 raid. ATF just never knew it. The report blamed this on its "failure to establish an effective intelligence operation...
...Faulty intelligence also led ATF to believe the Branch Davidians kept their guns under lock and key in a central location. In fact, the guns were distributed and readily available. Likewise, ATF agents responsible for surveillance reported the compound had no sentries...
...raid planners expected armed resistance from only male Branch Davidians, and possibly one woman, a former police officer. The review states, "They [the agents] studiously ignored or discounted evidence that other women might also be prepared for armed resistance...