re a message for you mr president how do you know what happened in article cjkc sy g ko netcom com cjk netcom com writes this was obviously a lot different than the ordinary fbi adventure i believe that the federal officers had a conflict of interests here throught out the whole affair it seamed to me that they were chiefly concerned with saving face rather than saving lifes its true that the bd were resisting arrest and that they should have surrendered when they first realized that these where federal officers but they didn t i m not sure what you mean by saving face unless you are confusing the fbi with the batf who are the ones who were in charge of the original search warrant but when they didn t the fbi should not have treated as a hostage situation it wasn t i think more discussions possible independant negotiators and family intervention should have been used independant negotiators what was there to negotiate any sort of plea bargin has to be brought to the court the negotiators can t negotiate charges or sentences fbi negotitators did make a deal for the dividians to come out koresh showed he was not negotiating in good faith and there is no reason to believe independent negotiators would have done any better richard
