Editing Ruby Ridge standoff (section)

=== Deployment of sniper/observers, ROE understanding ===
On August 22, the second day of the siege, between 2:30 and 3:30 pm, the FBI HRT sniper/observer teams were briefed and deployed to the cabin on foot.{{r|rubyreport517_545|p=520}}

According to the RRTF report to the [[United States Department of Justice|DOJ]], there were various views and interpretations taken of these ROEs by members of [[FBI Special Weapons and Tactics Teams|FBI SWAT]] teams in action at the Ruby Ridge site. Denver SWAT team leader Gregory Sexton described them as "severe" and "inappropriate." Two members of the Denver [[SWAT]] team said they were "strong" and a "departure from the ... standard deadly force policy", "inappropriate", and of a sort one "had never been given" before. The latter of these two members said that "other SWAT team members were taken aback by the Rules and that most of them clung to the FBI's standard deadly force policy." Another team member responded to the briefing on the ROE with "[y]ou've gotta be kidding."<ref name=RRTF_OPR_IVF2c_fns614616>RRTF, ''Report of the RRTF to the OPR'' (1994), Ch. IV., §F.2.c., from footnote 614 to 616, pp. 173–183.</ref>

But most of the FBI HRT sniper/observers accepted the ROE as modifying the deadly force policy. According to later interviews, HRT sniper Dale Monroe saw the ROE as a "green light" to shoot armed adult males on sight, and HRT sniper Edward Wenger believed that if he observed armed adults, he could use deadly force, but he was to follow standard deadly force policy for all other individuals. Fred Lanceley, the FBI Hostage Negotiator at Ruby Ridge, was "surprised and shocked" at the ROE, the most severe rules he had heard in more than 300 hostage situations. He later characterized the ROE as being inconsistent with standard policy.<ref name=RRTF_OPR_IVF2ag>RRTF, ''Report of the RRTF to the OPR'' (1994), Ch. IV., §F.2.a.–g., pp. 156–193.</ref><ref name=RRTF_OPR_IVF3a>RRTF, ''Report of the RRTF to the OPR'' (1994), Ch. IV., §F.3.a., pp. 200–208.</ref> The 1996 Senate report criticized the ROE as "virtual shoot-on-sight orders."{{r|Subcommittee|p=61}}