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Ruby Ridge Incident — Part 01
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the Office of Professional Responsibility and the Civil Rights.
which to conclude that she had been shot intentionally or
unlawfully. Both determined by their analysis that the second shot
was not unconstitutional.
Special Agent Horiuchi's second shot was not criminal. Nor do
I believe that a court -- applying qualified immunity principles -
would find any civil liability. Further, based on all of the
evidence, I do not believe it was unconstitutional.
Punishment Administered to FBI Employees
In January of this year, I disciplined or proposed discipline
for twelve FBI employees for their conduct related to the incident
at Ruby Ridge and the subsequent prosecution of Randy Weaver and.
KevinHarris.
My
disciplinary
actionfollowed
an
FBI
administrative review of the conduct of those employees. My action
also followed reviews by the Department of Justice Office of
Professional Responsibility and the Civil Rights Division, which
independently determined that criminal prosecution was
not
warranted.- All of these actions, including my own, relied upon a
Task Force investigation that was directly supervised by the
Department of Justice and a report that was written by Department
of Justice attorneys -- not FBI Special Agents.
I too determined that the twelve FBI employees did not commit
any crimes or intentional misconduct. Nevertheless, I concluded
that those employees had demonstrated inadequate performance,
improper judgment, neglect of duty, and failure to exert proper
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