Former FBI Deputy Director Larry Potts told a Senate panel Wednesday that documents it had just received regarding the bureau's siege at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, support his claim that he did not approve controversial shoot-on-sight rules during the standoff.
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In earlier testimony, FBI agent Charles Mathews _ who had conducted an FBI probe of Ruby Ridge _ said controversial shoot-on-sight rules for the sniper team were improper and had been issued by FBI commanders at Ruby Ridge without permission of headquarters.
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The former deputy director of the FBI emotionally defended himself before a Senate subcommittee Thursday, saying he had recently unearthed notes that show he did not authorize the shoot-on-sight rules in effect during a bloody standoff in 1992 between a white separatist and an elite FBI assault team.
