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Thats a lot of bucks for ammo, I wonder if Uncle Sam furnished it? The FBI NEVER LIES.
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Thats a lot of bucks for ammo, I wonder if Uncle Sam furnished it? The FBI NEVER LIES.
Ammon Bundy's motion to stay trial pending appeal and declaration of attorney Morgan Philpot
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The unknown is how many rounds of that was .22 LR ammo. And if there wasn't a huge amount of .22 LR ammo in that 'stockpile' then for 34 guns that only amounts to ~two to three hundred dollars of ammo per gun on average. In reality, not really a great amount individually, i.e. ~500 rounds per gun on average.Quote:
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Good point. I didn't take the time to do the math. So, that isn't prohibitive.
What looks more menacing? 15 .50 cal ammo cans or a huge fucking pallet the size of a tote??Quote:
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The Defense, Day 11 from Rangefire http://rangefire.us/2016/09/29/ongoi...-defense-case/
THE DEFENSE CASE
DAY 11 — Wednesday, September 28, 2016
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The defense case actually started on Tuesday, September 27, 2016, late in the afternoon, immediately following conclusion fo the government’s case in chief, when the prosecution rested. Several defense motions were filed at that juncture, some of which were argued Tuesday afternoon, including a motion by defense attorney, Tiffany Harris, arguing that the term “federal officers” referred to 28 USC 372, the civil war conspiracy statute Defendants are charged with violating, is not applicable to run-of-the-mill federal employees, as the government has alleged. Consequently, she and other defense attorneys argued for a narrower interpretation of the term “officer.” Attorney Per Olson argued that under the constitution and other a correct definition and understanding of term only includes those who are required to swear an oath, as part of their federal position and title, to uphold the constitution. Although the argument seemed fairly compelling, Judge Brown denied the motion.
Defendant Attorney Mathew Schindler also filed a motion for acquittal on behalf of his attorney, Kenneth Medenbach, arguing that there is insufficient evidence to tie Medenbach to any alleged conspiracy to impede or interfere with federal officers, nor is there any evidence that he was armed at the refuge, claiming that no
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reasonable jury could reach that conclusion. Judge Brown likewise denied that motion. Today, before the defense started calling witnesses Ryan Bundy also filed a motion for acquittal/dismissal, and Ammon Bundy’s attorneys filed a motion to stay any further trial proceedings based on their appeal of Judge Brown’s denial of their previous motion for an injunction. But Judge Brown denied all defense motions.
And just to give a little better idea how it works, all such motions are argued outside the presence of the jury. Such motions are typically argued among the attorneys and the judge either at the end of the day after the jury has been excused, or at the beginning of the day before they are brought in to the court room.
When the defense did finally start calling witnesses to testify on Wednesday morning, they called a shotgun array of witnesses that had previously testified for the government, including MNWR manager Chad Karges, Refuge employe Carla Burnside, and a number of FBI agents.
Among other things, Special Agent Ben Jones testified that he attended LDS (Mormon) Church services in Burns on January 10th to conduct surveillance on the Defendants, including Ryan Bundy, to attended church there that day.
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Other FBI Agents, including AGent Chadd Lapp, testified that the FBI received intelligence on January 1st that there was talk among the Defendants and/or people associated with them about the possibility of doing something at the refuge. The agents testified that there were multiple government informants among the so-called “militia” at the refuge during the occupation, and they testified that Mark McConnell was paid for his services to the FBI, although Judge Brown would not allow them to disclose how much he was paid. Agents were also asked about the role of Refuge neighbors, Rancher Andy Dunbar, and his son, who were likewise paid by the FBI. Agent Lapp also contradicted the previous testimony of Harney County Sheriff’s deputy, Lt. Brian Needham.
As you may recall, Lt. Needham testified about his conversation with Ryan Payne, who had come into the sheriff’s office on his own one day, seeking to talk with Sheriff Ward. According to Agent Lapp, Lt. Needham’s court testimony went considerably beyond anything he had told Agent Lapp in their interview.
The Defendants also played recordings of conversations between Ammon Bundy and FBI negotiators at various points along the way. In those negotiations, when Ammon Bundy was asked what they occupiers wanted, he said they wanted Hammonds to be returned to their families, and they wanted the Refuge to be turned over to Harney County, and the ranchers it had been taken from.
According to Lapp’s report, Needham had mentioned that Payne had told him that an elected official should be removed from office “by any means necessary” if they were not upholding the Constitution. Lapp said Needham didn’t relay to him any reference Payne made to Sheriff Dave Ward, and didn’t suggest that the removal “by an means necessary” should include “death,” as Needham had testified previously.
The Jury also heard from Native American Elder, Sheila Warren, from the Siletz Tribe. Warren is a registered nurse, who previously worked for Indian Health Services, and then for the VA. She had come to the Refuge to see for herself and “get to the bottom” of whether the artifacts housed at the Refuge had been harmed in any way by the occupiers, as had been reported in the news. She said she was trying to get a feel for the place, and the occupiers so she could tell “what was true and what was not.” She said that the people she met were very open, friendly, and she did not see any firearms at the Refuge. She also testified that she notice a lot of areas that had been cleaned-up at the Refuge. She said that she examined the artifacts, and they were dusty and dirty, and there were plenty of rodent droppings among them, but they were in tact and had not damaged.
Lawyers for Ammon Bundy, the leader of the refuge occupation, and six co-defendants have repeatedly argued in court that their clients never intended to prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or the Bureau of Land Management from doing their work — the thrust of the federal conspiracy charge they face. They’ve even argued that defendants haven’t even talked about workers from those federal agencies. Instead, they’ve said that they were engaged in a political protest, and intended to stake claim to and they didn’t believe that the federal government should control.
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When Defendant Ryan Bundy asked her if she ever heard people at the Refuge talk about preventing Refuge employees from coming on the property, she responded “Just the opposite. They said they were not threatening or hurting anyone.”
On cross-examination, U.S. Attorney Ethan Knight asked her if the Siletz tribe had disavowed her visit to the Refuge, to which she responded that she was not speaking for the tribe. When Knight asked her why she had been willing to talk to Ryan Bundy, at the Refuge, but had been subsequently unwilling to talk to the FBI, she said “I didn’t trust the FBI,” which seemed to be a fair response to the question asked, but Judge Brown admonished her
When Attorney Marcus Mumford asked her why she didn’t trust the FBI, she said “Because I heard that five of them…were under investigation for lying,” Judge Brown cut her off, and said that her statement should be stricken and not considered by the jury, although, again, it seemed highly relevant and responsive to the question asked.
When Attorney Tiffany Harris asked Warren about efforts by FBI Agent Ronnie Walker to talk to her in May, she said she wouldn’t talk to him because she felt threatened by him.
Another FBI agent was called to establish that in rancher Andy Dunbar’s testimony he said that he had never spoken to Ammon Bundy, but in his conversation with FBI Agent Burns, he said that he had spoken to Bundy.
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FBI negotiator Marc Maxwell testified about the last stage of the occupation, and his talks with the four remaining hold-outs, including David Fry. He said on Feb. 11, Fry talked to him by phone about killing himself, and his fear of being sexually assaulted if he went to jail. Maxwell told him he could be placed in segregation, and tried to talk to Fry about his family.
“At some point, Maxwell said, Fry said he wanted pizza and a smoke, and if you all say ‘hallelujah,’ he’d come out,” Maxwell testified. “I said ‘hallelujah,’ and he came out.”
Tomorrow, Thursday, which is the last day of the four-day week for the jury, the Defense plans to call Rev. Franklin Graham, who was involved in the final negotiations to end the occupation. Defense attorneys said that they also intend to re-call Harney County Sheriff David Ward, and that if there is enough time, on Thursday, Ammon Bundy may take the stand.
For contrasting perspectives and reporting, you can also follow Maxine Bernstein for OregonLive, and Conrad Wilson for Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
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Lowlife scum Mark McConnell was likely paid $25,000.00 to setup LaVoy Finicum for assasination
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Deborah Jordon's exclusive report
GMN Exclusive – Ryan Payne Says Mark McConnell Most Likely Received $25,000.00 For His Role As Informant During Malheur Occupation
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MARK McCONNELL
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The driver’s name was Mark McConnell, and he wasted no time to go on the defensive when news spread on social media, that according to the testimony of Oregon State Trooper Jeremiah Beckert, he was the informant who gave OSP/FBI the logistics and support they needed to execute the ambush that lead to the death of LaVoy Finicum and arrest of Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy, Shawna Cox, Ryan Payne and Brian Cavalier. Those closest to McConnell say Mark denies having worked with law enforcement to make possible the ambush that would lead to one man’s death, and the incarceration of occupation leadership. McConnell’s official stance was, he did not do it and Oregon State Trooper Beckert lied on the stand. While McConnell refused to speak with me for the purpose of writing this article, he has spoken to many about what he says was a radical idea being formed at the refuge, and readily admits he did inform Law Enforcement and the FBI of plans to kidnap Sheriff David Ward’s children, and use explosives found on the refuge to blow-up the Harney County Courthouse.
Two days after the death of LaVoy Finicum I spoke with McConnell in room 123, at the now infamous Silver Spur Motel in Burns,Oregon – I asked him point blank about how it could be everyone in the convoy was arrested except him? His reply was simply, “I’m not really sure, but when they questioned me it was pretty clear they didn’t even know who I was” he said .. Maybe it was because I wasn’t like all the other retards up there who couldn’t stay off social media.” I stayed under the radar – I had a room in town – I fed myself, and I didn’t start a fundraiser”I then asked him how it all went down that night.
He said that he and Booda “aka” Brian Cavalier, were sporadically chatting about much of nothing when they passed vehicles that immediately pulled out and began to follow them. There was some contention between him and Cavalier he says, because a woman Cavalier thought of as his girlfriend was giving him [Mark McConnell] a lot of attention, and “Booda wasn’t very happy about that” he said, “So we really didn’t have much to say to each other.” I wasn’t really paying much attention to what was going on around us, and then suddenly Cavalier says “Oh shit” and sits straight up, and thats when I saw them sitting there on the side of the road. McConnell then told me, when they pulled him over he was the first to exit the jeep and that he told them he was armed. “They told me to keep my hands up, turn around and walk backwards to them slowly and I did what they told me to.
“It was crazy you know because – I thought, this is it – I’m going to jail. Then they put me on my knees and I spent the next two hours on the cold ground. They questioned me he said, and then after they talked to me for a while they just let me go. I mean, I guess they figured I was a nobody who just got caught up in the whole thing and that was probably because I was smart and stayed away from the cameras, and so they told me that they couldn’t arrest me because they didn’t have an indictment for me — To be honest I can’t really tell you why I wasn’t arrested.”
At one point in our conversation I used the word “ambush” to describe the event that took place on Hwy 395, and that’s when McConnell lost his composure with me. He became very angry with me for using the word ambush –
That was the last time I spoke with Mark McConnell.
“It wasn’t a fucking ambush he scolded, it was a legal fucking stop and people need to stop calling it that!” And you wanna know something else? If LaVoy had rushed me like he did those guys, I probably would have shot him too”
Ken Rhoades, aka [Orange Hat Man], stood silently in the room with me and listened to Mark;s version of the event. When Mark left, Ken turned to me immediately and said, ” That Motherfucker is working with the Feds, I’ll bet my life on it.” I told Ken then, and have said it many times after, ” I don’t know about working with them, but he sure is hiding something.”
In March of 2015 I contacted Mark McConnell’s friend Melvin Lee, not because I wanted information about McConnell, but because he had put out a very passionate video claiming that some of the women whose husbands had been incarcerated were being overlooked in fundraising efforts online. He challenged us all to pick up the slack and help these women out. I called him to get the information he had on the families most in need. Mr. Lee was angry. He said that he had gone to the Refuge to try to talk Ammon Bundy into leaving the Refuge and that Ammon would not listen; My conversation with Melvin Lee soon turned to Mark McConnell.
Melvin Lee was the first person to tell me that Mark had gone to the refuge a second time against his advise, because he felt that Ryan Payne was becoming dangerous and had added a radical element to the occupation. He told me that Payne suffered from a severe form of PTSD and his influence over some of the men up there worried both him and Mark McConnell.
Mark told Melvin Lee that he had supposedly overheard Jason Blomgren, AKA (Joker J) talking about plans to kidnap Sheriff David Ward’s Children, and blow-up the Harney County Courthouse. He also told me that Mark went up there to specifically keep a watchful eye on Payne and “take him out” if he made one step toward carrying out that plan.
RYAN PAYNE
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Ryan Payne says now in hind-sight, that he should have listened to Jason Patrick, a long time friend and co-occupier at the Malheur Refuge. “Jason just didn’t like the guy from the moment he stepped foot on the refuge,” says Payne.
Payne cannot remember who actually introduced him to, or told him about Mark McConnell, but he knows they became acquainted during the incarceration of Andrew Tahmorressi, a United States Marine who had been jailed by Mexican Authorities for accidentally carrying weapons over the border. He says that looking back on it he was impressed with and liked McConnell who told him he was a United States Marine who transitioned to the Army and that they had many things in common.
“When the Occupation began we struggled to find people who were willing to come to Oregon to help with the protest and so we all just started calling the contacts in our phones, McConnell was one of those contacts in mine, he said.
Ryan says, because of Marks military training, work on the border, and willingness to be there at the Refuge, he was quickly assigned to personal security for Ammon Bundy. When I told Ryan about the excuse McConnell was using to justify his becoming an informant Payne said, “It’s just simply not true”
Ryan Payne says that he was running late on the afternoon of January 26th 2015. He had been out on the refuge with Victoria Sharpe showing her around; She had only been there a couple of days. When they made their way back to the refuge McConnell was agitated and in a panic; I had never seen him act like this before, he said. He was yelling at everyone about getting on the road and was very upset because he thought they were going to be late. We had a routine we followed before we left the Refuge for these meetings and McConnell was just screwing everything up. He insisted that we all go together and that Ammon ride in the lead car with him. The truth is Ammon had not planned to go with us to the meeting. He wanted to leave later because he was always the last speaker and he had some things he wanted to take care of at the Refuge and said he would meet us there later. McConnell was having a fit. He was persistent that Ammon just had to go now, and ride with him. At the last minute I think Victoria decided to go and Mark was very unhappy about that. It was all just so hectic and confusing and we skipped over our routine. The last thing we always did before we left the refuge was pray, and this time because Mark was acting so out of control, and pushing everyone so hard, we didn’t do it. I think the worse mistake we made was not saying that prayer – maybe if we had just forced McConnell to slow down and said that prayer, God would have told us not to go.
Like everything else concerning McConnell, this whole story about kidnapping plans and blowing up buildings, just doesn’t make any sense. If what Mark is saying were the truth then my arrest would have been about something much different. It would have been about that, and not a conspiracy to impede BLM and Fish and Wildlife from doing their duty. Mark didn’t come up there to stop some radical plan — He came there to do just what he said, and that was to watch me, and report back to the FBI like he has been doing for the past two years.
Payne says that in the discovery he and his attorney learned, that at least two informants had received a sizable amount of money for their part at Malheur. One check was cut for $25,000.00 and the other was for $10,000.00. He doesn’t know if McConnell got them both or if there was another informant, but was confident Mark got at least one of those checks and quite possibly both. That’s why he made up this outlandish lie — The bigger the lie the bigger the check.
Ryan had a message for Mark at the end of our talk;
“There was never a plan to kidnap Ward’s kids and there was never a plan to blow up buildings. Where is the proof? Did it ever come out in court? I was never questioned about it and neither was anyone else to my knowledge except “maybe” Jason (Blomgren) who stated when asked, that there may have been a discussion of last resort plans to plant IED’s to slow down the FBI if they came after us. And to my knowledge I don’t ever remember even having had that conversation with Jason, nor do I think he ever said I did.
No, Mark McConnell was sent there to gather intel and cause division, and that’s exactly what he did and exactly what he’s still doing. We all knew the minute he was let go that he had set us all up. He was working with them to figure out a way to get us all together so they could end the occupation. And that is exactly what he accomplished, and a good man died because of Mark McConnell.
JON RITZHEIMER
I want him to know I feel sorry for him. When all is said and done Mark, you will always be the one who did a terrible thing and will have to live with the death of LaVoy Finicum. I will never have to prove that I am telling the truth because you are the one telling the lie. God has a perfect plan – read Isaiah 44-45. I want you to know that despite what you did I am not angry – I want you to know I don’t hate you – I want you to know I forgive you.
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Jon Ritzheimer, another co-occupier and close friend to Payne says, “There is no way Ryan Payne ever had plans to do what McConnell is saying he had plans to do.” Jon makes it clear that he bunked with Payne on the refuge, and would have known if Payne was planning such a thing. Ritzheimer also disclosed to me that it was Mark McConnell and Melvin Lee who told Ammon Bundy they had intel that a raid was going to happen any minute and that they all needed to pack up and leave the refuge or die. “They both said the intel was solid, and we believed them.”
Jon now believes that McConnell purposefully caused panic that night so people would become frightened and leave, and that very likely the first plan to take them down was thwarted when they dug in their heels and refused to budge. Some have pointed out that McConnell could have very well told them of the false plans to raid the compound just to get an idea of their strategy so he could report back to the FBI. Regardless, Ritzheimer says that he believes Mark was working with the FEDS from the beginning. “He and Melvin Lee went there to cause chaos, and that’s exactly what happened.” Ritzheimer said.
I have also seen where McConnell and Melvin Lee say they came to the Refuge to rescue a girl named Kristen and her baby, but that is also a big lie. Until they got to the refuge they didn’t even know Kristen was there. I know this because, I am the one who told them about her and asked them to take her back to Arizona with them when they left.
“I’ll never forget that night. We were begging for help — we were begging the media to stay and help protect us, but they all left us there. LaVoy came up and sat there all night in the cold waiting to die in that parking lot. I tried to come up with an idea to make the media stay with their camera’s and the only thing I could think of was to get dressed in my fatigues and carry a gun, but that only worked for about an hour, and then they left. The only one willing to stay and keep his camera going was Pete Santilli. He sat in his truck between LaVoy and the road and waited for the FBI to come and hoped his camera would stop them from killing everyone.”
They were also the ones behind Lewis Arthur’s big show when he came up there thinking he was going to get by with beating up a sick Vietnam Vet, pushing his way past the gate screaming and yelling that he had come to rescue one of his “men” he had heard was in trouble. It was all a lie made up by Mark McConnell. Lewis Arthur founded the movement called Veterans on Patrol in Arizona, and reports are he was asked to leave Bundy Ranch for bad behavior.
Jon Like Ryan, points out that kidnapping and bombs were never mentioned by Prosecutors, and if McConnell gave them evidence that proved that that was the ‘BIG PLAN” then they would have definitely used it.
JASON BLOMGREN
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Jason Blomgren’s close friend Angelia Balch, former National President for the III % Organization, stands by her friend and says that everything that comes out of Mark McConnell’s mouth about Jason is a lie; Jon Ritzheimer agrees:
Jason Blomgren was subpoenaed by the Government to testify against his co-occupiers in the trial of Ammon Bundy et al — but, said his friend Angelia Balch, Jason was a hostile witness who never cooperated with the FBI. At the last moment the Government decided to dismiss Mr. Blomgren as a witness, and did not call him to the stand.
We had our times with Jason, and there did come a time when I had to tell him to take down a video or two, but it wasn’t because they were violent or anything like that — We just thought they were silly and didn’t represent the message we wanted to convey. I do not believe Jason ever told McConnell that Ryan Payne planned to kidnap kids and blow-up buildings, and I don’t believe Jason ever informed on us. Mark McConnell is a liar and that’s all there is to it.
Jason Blomgren had no comment.
MELVIN LEE
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Melvin Lee now say’s that he doesn’t know what to believe about his friend Mark. “I hate to think he would lie to me, he said – but I will stand by him and defend him from anyone who tries to come after him.” To tell you the truth, I’m just as confused as everyone else, he said. Melvin walked away from a organization he founded known as The Patriot Warriors nearly three months ago, and says he has also walked away from the Patriot Community for good.
There are those like Melvin Lee who are still willing to defend McConnells actions and say despite handling the situation the wrong way, he is a good man. They stand by his decision to become an informant, and say he did the right thing. McConnell’s friends say, now that his name has been disclosed his life, and the life of his family and friends are in danger, and that they were shocked to learn they had set him up and outed him to the public.
Now Isn’t that ironic?
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Shari Dovale's assesment of the the defenses's first day of rebuttal
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Malheur Defense Starts With a Bang
By Shari Dovale
Today began the defense case in the Malheur Protest Trial in Portland. The jury heard a 40 minute audio recording of a call between FBI Negotiator Christopher Luh and Ammon Bundy.
Bundy explained to Luh how the protesters were cleaning the refuge, making repairs and working with the community. We heard Ammon estimate that about 1,000 community members had come to the refuge and shared information. One of the most prominent stories that Ammon shared on this call was how the “Fires have been so destructive to them and how it appears that the Bureau of Land Management is only there to make money on the fires.”
“They’re not there to put the fires out,” Bundy explained. He then went on to give statistics on the poor management of the BLM versus the local volunteer fire group. They have a track record of keeping the fires down to less than a thousand acres when the volunteers are on it, but “when the Bureau of Land Management firefighters are on it there’s hundreds of thousands of acres.”
Another powerful witness was Sheila Warren, an elder with the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. She testified that, after hearing news reports of what was happening at Malheur, she decided to investigate the events herself. She was very concerned for the reported abuse of the Paiute artifacts. She arrived on January 24th and spent several hours overall.
Warren testified that she went into an office building and never saw damage, the people were respectful, the refuge was clean, and the general atmosphere was open and responsive. She also testified that she never saw any guns during her time there. This part of her testimony was important because she said that she specifically looked for weapons, due to the media reports.
She reported that the artifacts were not being abused and she tried repeatedly to reach the Burns Paiute Tribal Chair, Charlotte Rodrique, though she was unsuccessful.
After leaving the refuge and returning home, Warren testified of a phone call she received from FBI Agent Ronnie Walker. He did not immediately identify himself to her but did attempt to bully her into talking to him. Walker told this Tribal Elder that she did not have a choice but to talk to him, and she was made to feel as if she did something wrong by visiting the refuge.
Judge Anna Brown did not want to let the jury hear this information, but Tiffany Harris, Shawna Cox’s attorney, did a wonderful job in questioning and getting the information presented. Warren was able to present the fact that she felt threatened by Agent Walker.
There have been several FBI agents testifying during this trial. Ronnie Walker has been treated very special by the court in that he has been allowed to sit through each day in the courtroom, listening to all the testimony, before he himself testified, repeatedly. Not even the other agents have received that privilege Certainly no regular citizen witnesses would be allowed this same benefit.
That isn’t the only unusual behavior by the FBI during this trial. Agent Lapp is a prime example of the disrespect the FBI has for the jury and these proceedings. He was assigned to this case in November 2015. However, this trained investigator was not able to recall most details of which he was questioned. He could not remember who’s Facebook accounts were being reviewed, other than Ammon’s. He couldn’t even remember when he started watching these accounts.
When questioned about the government informants at the refuge, his memory got even worse. He couldn’t remember how many informants there were, or who they were, or much about them in general. He was finally prompted to reveal that he saw a written proposal to pay Mark McConnellfor being a government informant.
Several agents claimed to “not recall” specifics of their investigations, except when prompted by their “302” reports. These reports are the written summaries they fill out about witness interviews. It seems to me, when they are called to testify, they should at least review their notes, reports, or even the case files, to prepare for their testimony. Too many times today they appeared incompetent by falling back on the “I do not recall” answers.
Tomorrow will be another big day for the defense. Sheriff David Ward will return from Harney County. Reverend Franklin Graham is also expected to testify, as well as the possibility of Ammon Bundy taking the stand.
Judge Anna Brown has begun to push the defense to make a minimal case and wrap it up by early next week. Today was the first day, and they are not in court on Friday. So, 2 days this week, maybe 2 days next week, is a dramatic shortening of their evidence.
There is a video that the defense wants to admit and show the jury, but speculation is running that Judge Brown will not allow it, as it will just lengthen the case. Yes, she can be very intimidating to attorneys. However, their future does not trump these defendant’s freedom.
I hope they get their full day in court.
The more this trial and the Hillary affair progress it becomes blatantly obvious there is not an honest person in the current administration or in the federal justice system. Growing up I was proud of my country. Today I am disgusted by what has happened to our country.
Daily we are presented with more proof of the FBI instigating, planning and carrying out assasinations, planting false evidence, and committing perjury to arrest and convict innocent Americans. Paying informants, planting evidence, anything goes.
The failure to arrest and reccommend not to indicte the treasonous Hillary Clinton by the Director on the top to the lying and intimidation of men and women around the Malheur Reseve by local FBI agents on the ground display how corrupt and evil the organization has become.
Even worse, with the blatantly obvious evidence that LaVoy Finicum's assasination was planned and executed by these devils it is swept under the carpet. Apparently there is not an honest person in law enforcement or the judiciary who will bring charges against these murderous cowards.
The judge, the court clerk and the prosecutors in the trial, plowing ahead where they know they lack jurisdiction, are complicit in the overreach and corruption Ammon Bundy was intent on exposing.
They are all doing the work of Satan.
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Evidence Mounts Against the FBI — Across the Board
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According to The Daily Bell,” Loss of FBI Reputation is Irredeemable: James Comey Will Resign. It appears the FBI’s involvement and obvious cover-up in the deadly roadblock that killed LaVoy…
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Today I am disgusted by what has happened to our country.