The second episode of the Fox News “Scandalous” series, documenting on the 1992 Ruby Ridge siege, revealed the massive military force the FBI deployed against a single-family. As Sunday’s third episode revealed, key unknowns linger into 2020.
The FBI’s rules of engagement essentially allowed snipers to shoot members of the Weaver family on sight, and sniper Lon Horiuchi shot Vicki Weaver in the head as she held her infant daughter. Snipers are trained to “acquire” their targets, and the notion that Horiuchi didn’t know the destination of his bullet is highly dubious. According to an earlier PBS report, the FBI believed
