ATF Agents Laugh About Waco in Hidden Video

➡ The text is a discussion about a video on the ATF’s website, where former agents recall the Waco, Texas incident 25 years ago. The speakers criticize the agents’ light-hearted attitude towards the serious event, accusing them of being unprepared and making significant mistakes. They also question the authenticity of the agents’ emotional reactions in the video. The speakers express disbelief at the agents’ claim of being surprised by the violent response they received when they arrived heavily armed to serve a warrant.
➡ The video interview discusses the controversial Waco incident, with different perspectives from those involved. Some interviewees seem to enjoy recalling the event, while others express regret and admit to being unprepared. Despite the serious nature of the event, there’s a sense of denial and avoidance of responsibility. The interviewees’ reactions range from laughter to claims of being victims, creating a confusing narrative about the incident.
➡ The text discusses a video made by the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) that is seen as a hidden treasure due to its low viewership and unique content. The video, which is seen as an attempt by the ATF to rewrite history, is criticized for its portrayal of the ATF agents. Despite the criticism, the text recommends watching the video for its insights. The text also mentions various websites and encourages viewers to share the information.

They are giddy, they’re happy. They’re like, thinking back on this like it was just some fun scrimmage. Under the docks. Under the docks? Yeah, under the docks. Ahoy, mateys. This is under the Docks with Paranoid American and Uncle Sean. Charting through treacherous ways with documentaries to let you know, do they sink or swim. Have a doc you want us reviewed, contact us@ paranoidamerican.com or kill them birds dot com. And don’t forget to, like, subscribe and share the show. Hey, today we’ve got a, a quick one. This is going to be a short one, but. And it’s technically not like a full length documentary or anything.

I found this doing ATF research on Waco. So on the official ATF’s website, they have this Remembering Waco section and it has interviews with XATF agents that were there at the sc just kind of remembering what had happened. And this is on YouTube. It’s like an unpublished, it’s an unlisted video that you can only find through the ATF site. And the description is ATF special agents discuss what really happened in Waco, Texas, 25 years ago. And there’s like a misspelling in it, of course, because it’s from the ATF and they’re a bunch of idiots. Yeah. I thought you picked this specifically to rage bait me.

I was watching, I’m like, he’s rage baiting me. Oh, he’s 100%. All right, so let’s plot the course for this one. 100. This was a rage bait because I remember when I watched it and it was like there’s a 15 minute segment and then there’s like another five minute segment with someone else that I guess wasn’t around to shoot the original one. So the 15 minute segment is an interview with a guy named Marvin Richardson, who was assistant director of the atf, and a lady named Claire Rayburn who comes across as evil incarnate. And then there’s like a third video with Mary Daughtery, who was an actual special agent on the field that day.

So the first thing that I walked away with, man, is that in that original video, they are giddy, they’re happy, they’re like thinking back on this like it was just some fun scrimmage that they went to. And I remember watching this for the very first time. This came out in 2018 when it dropped. I remember thinking, like, are they mocking me? Are they, like mocking the situation, that this can’t be a real thing? I, I 100 thought that this was like a Fake video that someone had like leaked. And only when I saw that it’s act, it’s still right now linked on the ATF’s website.

And even now when I watch, I’m like, man, is this real? This can’t be real. It reminded me of the old NFL films where they’re like, yeah, that was Super Bowl 12. Know, that’s where I broke my leg, you know, and Harry went off the side and, and cracked the court like I was like, what are they doing high fives and ass slapping over here? Like, man, what the glory days, man, you’re bringing me back the. It’s Bundy with the four touchdowns, one game, you know what I mean? They’re so hyped about this, I was like, and they think that they did the right thing.

They’re like, man, you know what we do? We saved America, man. Not just that, but after this video was shot, a number of people must have sat down and rewatched the edited version and saw them gleefully laughing and joking and smiling and then cutting to like crying with like snot coming out. Like no one in that process was like, this might not be perceived very well. And I guess who cares because it’s only got like 6, 000 views in almost 10 years, you know, so I guess the ATF social media game just not on the game yet.

So they can’t really get enough viewers to get the hate. Are our comments even on now? Of course they turn comments off. So here’s some of the claims that are made, right? Marvin Richardson, Assistant Director, atf, says that this was the biggest law enforcement operation in agency history and they knew this going in, right? So that, that’s part of that. Like, oh man, it was game day. You know, we had our, like, we were ready to roll. But then he immediately says something like, oh, he showed up and they just started shooting at us. We didn’t understand.

This is, this is the exact line that Marvin drops. We just came to serve a war and ended up in a gunfight. So let me just do some stats real quick. This was 76 to 80 ATF agents that showed up in multiple armed vehicles, all decked out with guns, tanks showed up. This is not just, oh, we just showed up to serve a war. And who knew that it was going to go crazy? So there’s so much gaslighting in a 15 minute video. You get enough gaslighting for the entire month of, of May, right? For Waco month.

So then he’s also talking about that there was this vehicle on the side of the road and the mailman, I guess. Then the reporter had asked the mailman, hey, what’s going on here? And he’s like, oh man, you know, it’s so crazy how this dude, they were talking about, this guy named David Jones who is literally brother in law to David Koresh. This is not just some like random oopsie. So it’s, it’s crazy because he tells on himself so many times a he says they were so over prepared, they had been training for weeks at Fort Hood that they roll up with 80 people just to make sure that it goes smoothly.

Yet they’re like the Keystone Cops bumbling around accidentally telling the brother in law of David Koresh that they’re like about to swarm the compound through the media. And then they start talking about, oh, we just wanted to show we were just going to knock on the door. We were going to be like, hey Mr. Koresh, here’s your letter. And who knew that they were going to have guns there? So I don’t know. It was so wild that they’re just straight up lying camera the entire time. The part that really got me was like, yeah, I was just in the distance and I heard something.

I wasn’t sure what it. It was gunfire. You’re like, dude, like what bro? You’re the director of the atf. You can’t identify gunfire from less than a mile away. Yeah, should have been pretty easy. And then yeah, they just really like start laid it on thick of like how those guys were heroes that day like you said. Then he gets into the snots and like, you know, people died up not caring about any of the Branch Davidians that were killed or kids or possibly how many people died of that. It to ATF agents that were surprisingly shocked that they were mad and had guns.

And then how stupid are you guys? Not only did you tell how do you not have intel on, on the brother in law, right? Like how do you not have intel on like hey, there’s a postman that also is part of the Branch Davidian. Like you have no intel. You guys came in there, you said prepared. That is not how you prepare. I don’t know. We’ve all seen the videos, man. Those videos do not look screen prepared. Right? People sliding off the roof, just shooting randomly in windows like negligent fire, shooting themselves on accident. Yeah, not preparation that I was looking for My, my main note.

Like I, I just usually I’ll have a list of notes of things that people said and I kind of like try and Fact check stuff. And then I just have. Just straight up, if I was watching this, just personally, like, what thoughts come in my head. My only note for this one is like, they seem so stupid. Like, all the people that they’re interviewing, they’re supposed to be in these high positions of power and highly trained. The guy’s talking like it’s a. Like a drunk frat party about this time that he fell off the back of a truck and it’s a miracle he didn’t die.

Like, it’s. That’s the level of storytelling that we’re getting here. Does not feel like somebody that was in charge of the atf. Or maybe it does, I guess that it explains so much of it, right? The. The snot part where. This is Marvin, right? Marvin Richardson. He’s the one that starts crying. I’m not gonna say that this was faker at all. I don’t think that he’s probably a good enough actor to fake that level of crying that he did. But what’s weird is that it goes from him laughing and joking about them trying to serve this warrant.

And then it just does like a hard cut. And now you clearly, they asked him some other question and he just kind of does that dead stare. And like, his eyes well up. And my. It just felt like this had to be take 9 or 10 or 20. And then someone was like, okay, finally he’s starting to crack. Let’s get this. But they like slip it in in the last three minutes of this 15 minute video interview. And it just. It feels like it was placed exactly in that spot for a very specific reason. So again, just.

The gaslighting is off the charts on this one. Yeah, I’ve never, like, there’s no even reason to fact check. You can watch any other Waco documentary that you could watch the shows, and you’ll get more information out of this than this. Because all they’re doing is high fiving and like, we’re heroes. Not even, like, mentioning, like, kind of glancing over, like, all the missteps. You’re like, yeah, bro. You guys. Like, this is the biggest blunder in history. I wouldn’t even put a video out on it. I would just pretend. I would try to be like, let’s pretend this didn’t happen.

Hopefully nobody ever asks us. And then instead not remember. Yeah, like remembering Waco. Someone had to be like, bro, we do not. We, like, let’s not let them remember the Waco thing. So then we’re getting Waco. That would be a lot better anyway, 25 years later. What. What again, were we talking about? Yeah. Anyways, so then there’s the. The other lady that gets interviewed in this one. And she come. Marvin comes across as just inept maybe. And maybe that’s a good part, right? That’s kind of like the. The George Bush senior or junior, like w. Like, ah, you know, who.

Who knows? He just kind of got drunk at the wheel. Like, you can’t hold it against him. He just. He’s a dummy. But this lady comes across, bro. She cannot help smiling and giggling the entire time. I don’t understand how she’s even in this video. Claire Rayburn, she’s excited about all the questions they’re asking. She kind of like lights up and bubbles and the first question and she’s like, question of the hour. Who shot first? And she starts, like, laughing about it. And I. I guess I’m not gonna sit here and be like one of those body, you know, analysis.

It’s like, oh, you know, because she blinked at this time and looked in this direction. She’s lying. But, bro, every time that it gets into a serious topic and she starts to laugh first that this happened 25 years ago. I’m sure they prepped for this interview. This isn’t just like a random nervous laughter. I’ll be Gotcha on camera. So something about this is literally triggering like. Like serotonin, like boosts to her brain when she’s like, oh, man, that was such a great time. So then she also mentions there’s no question that they shot first as she’s smiling.

She’s smiling as she says this. I think there is a question. I think that that’s why the door has been missing and they never found them. Anyway, we got into that. You can watch all the other Waco documentaries. Then she says they didn’t want us to leave because we were fulfilling a prophecy. Again, smiling. And. And I get that. I get the. Her spin or the spin that. That she’s kind of like putting on this, is that the Branch Davidians lured the ATF there. They, you know, they bait and switched them. They had 80 ATF agents show up with a warrant in armed vehicles and tanks and everything just because they wanted a.

A gunfight. And it was totally the Branch Davidians for starting that fight and making the ATF want to come and use all this force and that it was part of this prophecy. I don’t. I. I ran out of notes on this lady just because I couldn’t believe how. How much fun she was having with the interview. And I think they’re just. She’s just going off the same thing, the same bull crap that they’ve been pulling from a minute. Like, hey, they were. They wanted an apocalypse, right? They. They have, They’ve. They’ve foreseen. Because he said that they would rate us.

And you’re like, bro, he didn’t say it as a prophecy, as you think. In my opinion, the way I interpreted it, Koresh was more like, hey, yeah, they’re gonna come after us, bro. We have guns. We. We’re. We’re off the grid. We’re against, like, the government. They’re gonna eventually come for us. He wasn’t like, when this happens, like this chariot, like, they took it as an Armageddon prophecy. And I didn’t, I didn’t interpret it that way. Maybe, maybe Koresh laid it on thick to his people, sure. And he’s like, we need to be prepared. But they in no way invited the ATF to come at all.

Like, they could have easily prevented this. And that’s the funniest part, is where I’m like, yeah, why are you doing this, lady? You’re la. Giggling like, hey, you know, we’re just doing what we’re supposed to do. They’re just some crazy nut bags. Like, you’re like, there was kids in there, man. And you’re chuckling, but then you’re at the same breath. You know, if you asked her about Oklahoma City, she’s gonna be like, oh, my God, like the kids. You’re like, you did the same thing. So speaking of the. The kids part, the third, there’s a second video.

It’s like a four minute interview with Mary Daughtery on that same page. So Mary Daughtery, she basically said that A little bit of the opposite of what the first two said, right? Again, I don’t know who put this page together and edited these videos. And we’re like, yeah, this makes sense. But she’s like, we were totally unprepared. We showed up, we. We had ball caps on and vests. We didn’t even have any sort of, like, arbor protection. It was just the atf, like, field jacket and that they should have had helmets. They should have had all this extra protection that they didn’t have.

And then she says something that I don’t think makes any sense in any context. Nobody panicked, but there was a lot of fear. What does that mean exactly? Okay, whatever. She was trying to convey that even though it immediately turned into a wild gunfight, that they were very professional about it. Everyone was Very reserved, well trained, that when you go to the atf, you have to have, you know, all this training so that really you’re gonna wait before you take that shot. You’re not just gonna wildly, like, crawl up on a roof and accidentally shoot yourself in the thigh and fall off the roof.

That would never happen. And no one’s ever gonna play like, yakety sax music while that clip’s going on. She mentioned that this was supposed to be a religious place, and it was so weird because we heard him using profanity and they were saying things like, if you come in here, we’re gonna end you. And you know, I’m paraphrasing here. And my, my first thought was, like, you showed up in a tank. Like, like, how often do you show up to a church with a tank and 80 ATF agents anyways? And then she also says that once the FBI came in, that the ATF was not happy about this and that they were emotionally drained, which literally 40 seconds before that, she was just talking about how no one panicked.

Everyone was very reserved. There was no semblance of fear. And it’s like. And we were emotionally drained after, like the first couple hours and pissed off at the FBI and maybe making some mistakes. So, like, what happened to no one panicking? Yeah, the. The fear that they had, they were like, the fear we were able to push on. They kept. She kind of felt like, to me that she kind of stumbled on some stuff like, ah, maybe she shouldn’t have said that. And then she’s trying to pick back up like, oh, no, no, we’re good though.

Atf. I mean, you know, the FBI kind of. They kind of ruined it for us. You know, we were right there. But then the emotional distress that we had to go through in the FBI kind of, you know how it goes. And you’re like, no, you guys bumbled it from the get go. Like whoever started this whole thing was that. That’s the, the funniest part is that they actually. It’s almost like when they say, either put it in your face. That’s what this whole entire thing is. They’re like, you idiots, we do whatever we want. And then the.

That second video ends with her being a victim, of course, because she’s got to be the victim again. And she’s like, yeah, I even went to my local ffl, which is where you go to. To get a gun transfer, like when you’re buying a gun. So I went to a local FFL and someone recognized me there and called me A baby killer. And then she was like upset about this. And then the immediate quote after that was, we did what we had to do. And it was like she didn’t even necessarily deny that children died at the.

Basically the actions of the ATF and the FBI as a result of this. Right. She doesn’t deny that happened. The excuse was just like, you know, we did what we had to do. So I don’t know. Technically, yes, baby killer. I don’t. The. The end of this. I didn’t really know what to walk away with. I wasn’t sure why these videos existed. Like, it, it seems that it would have been in the ATF’s better interest to just not put this page up and not record these videos at all. Yeah, Only other thing I got was like, maybe there was just some guy that’s like in the atf.

He just got a bunch of equipment. He was like, dude, I’m really into like making YouTube videos now, like, do you think I could. And he tried to get from his desk job to do you know what I mean? He’s trying to miss the, the good job, good paying job with the YouTube stuff and be like, hey man, I can make YouTube videos for guys. And they just hyped him up and they’re like, yeah, I’m down with that. You know, we’re heroes. That’s how I felt. Hidden treasures overboard moments. Let me just kick this off and say that this video itself is the hidden treasure, right? It’s, it’s unlisted on YouTube.

It only has 6,000 views. After roughly a decade, hell, the ATF has less subscribers than most people that we know. Personally, I think I’ve got more subscribers than the atf. I don’t think that’s a flex or anything. It’s just the point that this is some. This is a video that I don’t think anyone has seen. 6,000 people total. Half of those are probably bots, the other half are probably not even from America. Right? So here we’ve got this. If you go and watch this, you’ll be like one of a thousand people that’s actually seen it. So I think that just knowing this exists and going and watching it and seeing these ATF agents admit to how over prepared they were and then how under prepared they were and how sad they are that snot’s coming out, but also how happy they were that they’re laughing and all this is happening in like a 15 minute video clip.

I think that that itself is the hidden treasure. Yeah, I do think that’s the hidden treasure. And the reason I think it’s a hidden treasure is it’s kind of like where they say the victors, like write history. And that’s kind of what they’re doing. They put this video out because right now we’re, we’re chuckling at like, look at these bumbling idiots. But at some point they may erase all the other documentaries, right? Like they, they could wipe them all out and all you get is this. And they’re like, oh, they’re heroes. Like, I get it. Poor guy.

Like, look how, look how sad he is, man. His buddies got killed and they, they shot him in the leg. He didn’t shoot himself in the leg, they shot him in the leg. Right? I think it’s just to reach, rewrite history and then I, I guess overboard just, you know, the, the same exact thing. The fact that this, this video even exists. Here’s what’s weird to me though, right this. It almost feels like one of those documentaries where someone goes into a situation and makes the subjects feel like they’re on their side, but really they’re asking dumb questions to make the people they’re interviewing look like the bad people, to make them look like idiots.

But here’s the problem though. This isn’t a gotcha documentary that came from outside. Like the call came from inside the atf, right? This was the ATF creating their own documentary and putting it on their own website and uploading it to their own station. So is this just the only thing that makes sense to me? Again, they’re either rubbing your nose in it and saying haha. Or literally the, the amount of ineptitude is extending like it never ended at Waco and now it’s made itself onto YouTube. So now they’re doing like YouTube level Wacos. Sink or swim.

We gotta rate it. I gotta say, like, it was captivating. Like it had a lot of things. No, I sink all the way, man. There’s nothing, nothing at all. Like, I do like that you presented it because it’s like one of those little kernels that we could keep in our pocket. Like, hey, let’s remember how these guys are arrogant and dummies and it’s a sink. Though I guess I agree on in the terms of it being a good documentary. Although I will say it’s highly recommended you watch it because it’s only like 15 minutes and it’ll give you some insight at least into Marvin and Claire Rayburn, which I’m positive is like some secret code name for like a darpa project.

So, yeah, I give it a sink, but I give it a. You should watch it. Even though this is a ridiculous, silly set of interviews that doesn’t really make any sense, but this is the official story directly from the ATF’s own mouth. So it’s. It’s really rare that you would see a documentary about something made by the people that perpetrated it. And if you’re on a list, like an ATF list or something like that, you might want to just go to paranoidamerican.com or kill themockingbirds.com and underthedocs.com right. Share under the docs. That’s the best way to get it to your friends.

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