Incidents like this are unfortunate and very troubling. We were not there, so we don't really have enough information to form an opinion. It has been a long time since I worked for a government agency, but I can tell you they are political...maybe not highly political, but they do tend to reflect the attitudes and prejudices of the current administration and cabinet. It is my impression (and I do not want to get political) that the current administration has set up a straw man regarding "domestic terrorism." I don't mean home grown jihadists which should rightly be a concern, I mean right wing US groups who, honestly, have been infiltrated and watched for so long that they could not poot without some agency knowing it. But, since this admin appears to be pro-Muslim, the focus has shifted toward other types of "terrorism." I think it is a stretch to call the folks up in Oregon "domestic terrorists." They may have been wrong or misled and I think they went about things the wrong way, but terrorists...no. Even going back to Ruby Ridge and the Branch Davidians, these were splinter groups of political extremists but hardly terrorists, at least not by my definition. All of these incidents probably could have been avoided, but things in the field just don't always work out to a good outcome. There are just too many contingencies. I know people and still have close friends who worked for the FBI and other agencies, and often several agencies worked together on various tasks and operations. These are not bad people, but I am sure that, just like in street LEO's work, they get caught up in situations that require an immediate response and snap judgement and things sometimes turn out badly. Do not talk to me about the media, whom I consider public enemy number one. There is a lot of coordination required in field ops, and the chain of command has to be clear or you will have trouble. This may sound insensitive, but it is not meant to be...but these various government agencies pre-empt a huge number of intelligence breaches, financial fraud, security fraud, international murder or blackmail plots, and countless other crimes that we never hear about. Incidents like Ruby Ridge, the Davidians, and Oregon do not happen very often...they are the price we sometimes pay for the security these agencies provide about which many have no clue.