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iandhr

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9. Given events like Waco that were PR disasters for the FBI...

Reply to progressoid (Reply #7)

Wed Jan 27, 2016, 05:02 PM

Jan 2016

... it is advantageous to say "we gave them an opportunity to surrender peacefully but they refuse giving us no other option but to use force"

That is my educated guess as to why.

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