1. re: #1 Dark_Falcon

This looks like a much less complicated and better run op than “Fast & Furious”. The ATF agents who ran this op appear to have done it right.

It looks that way…but why the helicopters and armored personnel carriers at the ranch?

2. The government wants to seize what sounds like all the Reeses’ assets: assets which they otherwise could liquidate to pay for quality lawyers. The government wants the Reeses held without bail. Undercutting their ability to prepare a defense?

3. I wonder if the Constitutional right to counsel should be interpreted more fully than is being done. To that end, perhaps criminal defendants who cannot afford a lawyer should be provided resources in the ballpark of those utilized by the prosecution.

4. Terms like J. Edgar Hoover, Waco, and Ruby Ridge cross my mind. I want to hear the Reeses’ side of the story.