It'll clearly never be demonstrated that she ordered it, or she'd have been thrown to the wolves at the time. My recollection, for which I can produce no references, is that approval for use of military force and the whole high-impact conduct of the operation came down from her, despite the local sheriff repeatedly saying "Look, all this is totally unnecessary, I know Koresh, he's a good man, if you'd just have let me go and talk to him he'd have walked out peacefully with me." But Reno and the ATF wanted to Make An Example.
(It's not like he'd even committed any active crime ... the justification for the whole thing was just a dispute over whether he owned any firearms he needed to pay a $200 Class III tax on, and iirc, BATF didn't even have hard evidence that he even had any Class III firearms -- they merely asserted that they believed him to have been assembling them.)
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(It's not like he'd even committed any active crime ... the justification for the whole thing was just a dispute over whether he owned any firearms he needed to pay a $200 Class III tax on, and iirc, BATF didn't even have hard evidence that he even had any Class III firearms -- they merely asserted that they believed him to have been assembling them.)