ted in so many deaths.
The initial raid by the ATF, which led to the FBI siege on the compound, does not demonstrate a systematic degree of duplicity throughout federal law enforcement. Rather, it demonstrates disturbing professional incompetence and an alarming aggression toward a group of people whom the ATF made no attempt to confront peacefully and only made superficial attempts to understand. The Austin, Texas Office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), in June 1992, opened a formal investigation into allegations that the Branch Davidians, led by David Koresh, possessed illegal firearms and explosive devices. ATF agents began an undercover operation in January 1993 and, as a result, the ATF sought and received from a federal judge an arrest warrant for Koresh and a warrant to search the Branch Davidians residence.
Shortly before the ATF planned to served the search and arrest warrants, it contacted Operation Alliance, a government office that coordinated military counter drug operations. The Committee investigation would la
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