Article: PROSECUTOR CLOSES THE BOOKS ON RUBY RIDGE.(News)

The Justice Department said yesterday it would not bring more criminal charges against senior FBI officials in the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where a government sniper killed the wife of a white separatist as she clutched their baby daughter inside a mountain cabin.

The Ruby Ridge case led to a criminal cover-up inside the FBI. It provoked a national debate over the bureau's decision to bend its own rules and tell its sharpshooters to fire on any armed man. It ruined the reputation of Deputy Director Larry Potts and damaged other fast-track FBI careers.

In testimony in 1995, FBI Director Louis Freeh said, ``Ruby Ridge was a series of terribly ...

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