Editing Ruby Ridge standoff (section)

=== Threat source profile ===
Beginning in February 1991, the USMS developed a Threat Source Profile on Weaver. Agents' failure to integrate new information into that profile was criticized in a 1995 report by a subcommittee of the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]]:

<blockquote>The Subcommittee is ... concerned that, as Marshals investigating the Weaver case learned facts that contradicted information they previously had been provided, they did not adequately integrate their updated knowledge into their overall assessment of who Randy Weaver was or what threat he might pose. If the Marshals made any attempt to assess the credibility of the various people who gave them information about Weaver, they never recorded their assessments. Thus, rather than maintaining the Threat Source Profile as a [[living document]], the Marshals added new reports to an ever-expanding file, and their overall assessment never really changed. These problems rendered it difficult for other law enforcement officials to assess the Weaver case accurately without the benefit of first-hand briefings from persons who had continuing involvement with him.<ref name=Subcommittee>{{cite report|author=U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism Technology and Government [Arlen Specter, Chair]|title=Ruby Ridge: Report of the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Government Information of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UOy-7sG5CVEC|publisher=Diane Publishing|access-date=January 24, 2022|year=1996|isbn=978-0788129766}}</ref>{{rp|34}}
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Many of the people the USMS used as third party go-betweens on the Weaver case—Bill and Judy Grider, Alan Jeppeson, and [[Richard Butler (white supremacist)|Richard Butler]]—were assessed by the Marshals as more radical than the Weavers. When Deputy U.S. Marshal (DUSM) Dave Hunt asked Grider, "Why shouldn't I just go up there ... and talk to him?", Grider replied, "Let me put it to you this way. If I was sitting on my property and somebody with a gun comes to do me harm, then I'll probably shoot him."{{r|Walter02|p=132}}
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The Subcommittee said that the profile included "a brief psychological profile completed by a person who had conducted no firsthand interviews and was so unfamiliar with the case that he referred to Weaver as 'Mr. Randall' throughout".{{r|Subcommittee|p=33}} A later memo circulated within the Justice Department opined that:
{{blockquote|The assumptions of federal and some state and local law enforcement personnel about Weaver—that he was a Green Beret, that he would shoot on sight anyone who attempted to arrest him, that he had collected certain types of arms, that he had "booby-trapped" and tunneled his property—exaggerated the threat he posed.<ref name=SenSubcommTerrorism96_GorelickMemo>Memorandum by Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick, dated April 5, 1995, cited in U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism ''Ruby Ridge: Report'' (1996), p. 35.</ref>}}

A review of Weaver's [[DD Form 214|DD-214]] in an investigation after the events of Ruby Ridge revealed that Weaver had never been a Green Beret or a member of the Special Forces; it was possible he had received some general demolition training as a "combat engineer."<ref name="DOJ DD214" />