Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
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monty
Ryan Payne did things that didn't seem right to me. His behavior reminded me of some undercover cops I've run into over my lifetime. I wouldn't ever trust him and him claiming to be a messianic jew doesn't help either.
I read through the whistle blower Wooten's report and the BLM needs to be torn apart and scattered to the wind and all the so called Federal land turned over to the states. All the government employees should be investigated, charged and go to to prison if found guilty and that goes for the politicians involved too. SOB's
Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
copied from another forum:
BLM Whistleblower in Bundy Case Outlines Egregious Violations and Abuses by BLM, including the fact that Agent Dan Love had a Kill List
This explains why the corrupt Judge in the Bundy case finally allowed the Bundy men pre trial release:
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Matt Shea Exposes BLM Atrocities
In an exclusive video interview with Redoubt News, Washington State Representative Matt Shea read from a letter he received concerning a BLM whistle blower named Larry Wooten.
Wooten was the lead investigator for the Bureau of Land Management’s investigation into the Bunkerville/Gold Butte operation that went bad for them in April of 2014.
The letter outlines egregious violations and abuses committed by the Bureau of Land Management employees, lead by SAC Dan Love.
These heinous acts were discovered when Wooten was assigned to investigate the Bunkerville Standoff/Gold Butte operation that took place in April 2014.
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Wooten goes on to outline that SAC Dan Love had what was called a “Kill Book as a trophy and in essence bragged about getting three individuals in Utah to commit suicide (see Operation Cerberus Action out of Blanding, Utah and the death of Dr. Redd).”
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Link to the letter written by Wooten:
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Former BLM investigator alleges misconduct in Bundy case
In a sealed document leaked online late Thursday afternoon, a Bureau of Land Management employee alleges vast misconduct by his agency during its investigation of the 2014 armed standoff between the government and supporters of Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy. The document is the latest twist in a tumultuous federal trial of Bundy, his sons Ammon and Ryan, and Montana militiaman Ryan Payne that began Nov. 14.
[link to www.hcn.org]
Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
Three page report from BLM agent who removed Wooten from the Bundy case
http://static.ow.ly/docs/Kent%20Klem...ation_786p.pdf
Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
Upadte from Representative Matt Shea. All we hear from Nevada Congressional and State politicians who are directly affected is . . . . Crickets
The video addresses this memo
http://static.ow.ly/docs/Kent%20Klem...ation_786p.pdf
http://youtu.be/PoO-7j28Yc8
Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
Loren Pearce give his opinion on the “Kill Book”. His conclusion of unaccountable government bureaucracies, in my view is the number one problem in our governement. The Congress began pushing for an administrative procedures act after World War I when numeous new governmental agencies began to be created. The bill they first wrote didn’t get Roosevelt’s approval, he felt it was unconstitutional. After World War II Nevada Senator Patrick McCarran was instrumental in getting the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946 enacted into law. This bill gave the bureaucracies power to write thier own regulations with little oversight from Congress. True, they are supposed to conform to the laws Congress makes, but we have seen the Bureau of Land Management abuse this power with no repercussions. It is my belief the Congress is more interested in campainging for the next election than in doing the job they were elecetd to do. Hence acts like the Adminstrative Procedures Act of 1946.
I was curious as to the purpose of this act so I downloaded the House and Senate debates leading up to the act. This made me question why the change of the U.S. District court system in 1948. I believe this was done to create adminstrative courts of congress for judicial review for the people and entities who beliived they were wronged by the regulations written by the newly created bureaucracies.
The Constitution gives the President the power to execute the laws Congress passes at the same time limiting what Congress may legislate and where the laws can have force and effect. That limit is supposed to keep feds out of the States.
Because of the Adminstrative Procedures Act of 1946 we have ended up with a bunch of bureaus and agencies who have become criminal. DOJ, FBI and BLM seem to be at the head of the list.
Whistleblower Reveals “The Kill Book”
THE WOOTEN REPORT IS A GLARING INDICTMENT OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THESE POWERFUL AGENCIES HAVE NO OVERSIGHT.
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The Kill Book
“The president, a politician, Republican or Democrat, should never get to decide someone’s death by flipping through some flash cards and saying, ‘You want to kill him? Yeah, let’s go ahead and kill him’.” — Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), on CNN’s “State Of The Union,” Feb. 10.
by Loren Edward Pearce
The recently released 17 page report by whistleblower and lead investigator, Larry Wooten, details wide ranging misconduct by prosecutors and by BLM and other government actors. Among the accusations made by Wooten, was reference to a “kill book” kept by SAC Dan Love in which he bragged about causing the suicides of different individuals including Dr. Redd.
Beyond the suicides, it is unclear to what extent the “kill book” identified other people, including the Bundys and their supporters, as targets for assassination. There have been claims that, once all the discovery is released, not just the Wooten report, that more evidence will show that the Bundys and others were targeted for assassination.
One thing that has been confirmed is the use of snipers and the implied intent to assassinate. We already know how “trigger happy” the FBI was in shooting Vicky Weaver, while holding an infant child in her arms, at Ruby Ridge. There is probable cause to believe that the snipers, seen at the Bundy ranch, could have easily killed somebody associated with the Bundy cause.
Additionally, there is mounting evidence that a FBI sharpshooter fired at LaVoy Finicum and/or his passengers in an attempt to “execute extreme prejudice” and rid themselves of the problem that was growing like a virus. US Senator Ron Wyden, comparing the Malheur standoff to a virus, said that it was, “a situation where the virus was spreading,” and action needed to be taken.
One normally deals with a spreading virus by killing it. Were the assassination of Finicum, the attempted assassination of his passengers and the use of snipers at Bunkerville, all part of a government remedy to eradicate the virus through orders to kill?
Ammon Bundy, in a recent video, talks about some of the contents of the whistleblower report and how the FBI and the BLM put “x’s” through the pictures of Cliven Bundy and showed a disrespect for life.
EXTREME PREJUDICE
A common practice by government is to label something with words that make them a euphemism, meaning to downplay the seriousness of something by giving it a better sounding name. A euphemism for assassination or kill orders is to “execute extreme prejudice”.
This term is used in reference to the government policy of assassinating enemies of the state, foreign or domestic.
The point I want to make is that, accusations and claims being made in the case of Bundy, Finicum and their supporters, regarding kill books or kill lists are not far fetched , nor are they a product of wacko conspiracy nuts, but fit a much bigger and far reaching policy by the US government to use assassination (murder) as a way to deal with people that they, a small group of decision makers, may consider “terrorists” or “virus”.
Senator Dennis Kucinich said that, “It doesn’t take too much of a stretch” to believe that the government policy to terminate terrorists in other parts of the world could also happen on US soil and against US citizens. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKdA9MqQctU(at 4:00 minutes)
We have heard Senator Harry Reid refer to the Bundys and supporters as “domestic terrorists”.
Once the term “terrorist” attaches to someone, whether foreign or domestic, it seems to give the government added justification to “reach out and touch someone” in the form of a drone missile or sniper bullet or some other form of “extreme prejudice”.
THE DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS
The above referenced video with Kucinich discusses how the constitutional rights to due process are being denied as the government seeks and destroys what they deem to be enemies of the state and then terminates them. The enormous injustice that is being perpetrated, not only against US citizens, is also against other human beings who don’t happen to be US citizens.
Our founders talked about inalienable and natural rights, rights that come to us for the simple fact of being human. The constitution was meant to not only protect people with US citizenship, but it was a model of conduct towards all mankind.
Denial of due process means that there are no checks and balances, none of the protections found in the Bill of Rights. Instead, somebody, often the POTUS, makes a unilateral decision to take somebody out, to take their life without a trial, without witnesses and cross examination and all the protections that we are supposed to have in a court of law. All that is bypassed with a drone missile or a sniper bullet.
The advantages and convenience of assassination are huge. By taking someone out, the government and their agencies are spared all the publicity, energy, expense and messiness of trials and investigations. The benefit of an assassination far outweighs its risk.
DOES THE DRONE CULTURE BLEED OVER TO THE DOMESTIC POLICIES OF FEDERAL AGENCIES?
Much has been written, made into movies and discussed about the new technology, known as assassination by drone. So effective are drones in taking out enemies or people, who someone has labelled as an enemy, that they have become the new normal and have radically changed the rules of war.
We know from these sources that, not only are people deemed to be enemies of the state taken out, but that innocent bystanders are also killed. Again, the euphemism comes to the rescue by calling them, “collateral damage”.
Many people who become employees of the federal government also served in the armed forces. These people were exposed to the drone culture, either by witnessing first hand or through other accounts, of people being taken out by drone strikes or long range weapons from high flying aircraft. These future employees of the federal government (who get preferential hiring treatment as veterans) bring with them to their domestic jobs, their attitudes and their philosophies about assassination.
The same mind set that executed Vicky Weaver, and that caused Dan Love to have a kill book or that may have led to the murder of LaVoy Finicum, may, directly or indirectly, be traced back to the comprehensive program of assassination prevalent with the thousands of drones patrolling the world’s skies.
This is not a critique of effective technology, it is a critique of the lack of oversight, the lack of constitutional protections and the lack of due process used in the current program of eliminating human beings, without a trial or without adequate review or rules of evidence.
So successful has been the drone program in eliminating people, without any blowback or consequences, that it is easy to see how it would be a big temptation to apply it to domestic affairs and people who are deemed to be a “growing virus”.
CONCLUSION
As Ammon Bundy pointed out in his video, the real danger are unaccountable federal agencies. Government bureaucracies that have so much power that they can do what they want, when they want and how they want with nobody to rein them in.
The Wooten report is a glaring indictment of what happens when these powerful agencies have no oversight. Whistleblowers are punished when, and if, they have the courage to expose the misconduct and the corruption.
Which brings us back to the famous quote: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men,…” Lord Acton, 1887
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Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
Gary Hunt received in the mail with no return address the 18 page Wooten report. This article is redundant except for the fact someone mailed a copy to Gary Hunt
Trial of the Century: Larry Wooten Expose on BLM
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His expose on BLM
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By Gary Hunt
December 15, 2017
Now, I have to start with a disclaimer. I do so since the last time I received unsolicited information, I ended up spending 7 days in jail and the Court (Judge Anna Brown) didn’t believe me in my sworn testimony, but she did believe a conversation I had with Schuyler Barbeau, in an effort to cheer him up, while he was still in jail.
I received in the mail, with no return address, an 18 page email that I had heard about. However, the details in what I had heard were minimal, at best. But, having the whole 18 pages, I find that the initial, or original email was only 17 pages.
In an undated email from Larry Wooten to Andrew D. Goldsmith, Associate Deputy Attorney General, National Criminal Discovery Coordinator, Wooten writes of many misdeeds in the entire Gold Butte Impound Operation, that being the operation that unfolded near Bunkerville, Nevada, back in early April 2014.
In a cover email, the eighteenth page, to Steven Myhre, United States Attorney for the Nevada District, in a forwarded email, the 17 page emails is included for a total of 18 pages. Wooten explains in the cover email that his superiors, his chain of command, would not deal with what he had presented to them. I’m not quite sure why he sent it to Myhre, since Myhre is implicated in the information, along with any others.
As I read the email, I realized that this was going to be a rather lengthy article. There were, Wooten’s own words, “Law Enforcement Supervisory Misconduct and Associated Cover-ups as well as Potential Unethical Actions, Malfeasance and Misfeasance by United States Attorney’s Office”, that I decided that I could only cover the more significant ones, and then provide the entire email for those that wanted to know more.
That being said, let’s get on with the truth of the matter, and, yes, I assume that the information provided is probably quite truthful, based upon other available information and practices.
On page 2, we find this rather concise statement by Wooten:
In February of 2017, it became clear to me that keeping quite became an unofficial condition of my future employment with the BLM, future awards, promotions, and a good future job reference.
This is followed by the first real indication of impropriety o the part of the BLM:
The longer the investigation went on, the more extremely unprofessional, familiar, racy, vulgar and bias filled actions, open comments, and inappropriate electronic communications I was made aware of, or I personally witnessed. In my opinion, these issues would likely undermine the investigation, cast considerable doubt on the professionalism of our agency and be possibly used to claim investigator bias/unprofessionalism and to impeach and undermine key witness credibility.
On page 4, we can see the arrogance of the BLM “public servants”, their display of ridiculing those on the other side of the fence. that Wooten refuses to use the word without replacing letters to, perhaps, make them pass some government filter.
Many times these open unprofessional and disrespectful comments and name calling (often by law enforcement supervisors who are potential witnesses and investigative team supervisors) reminded me of middle school. At any given time, you could hear subjects of this investigation openly referred to as “ret*rds,” “r*d-necks,” “Overweight woman with the big jowls,” “d*uche bags,” “tractor-face,” “idiots,” “in-br*d,” etc., etc., etc.’ Also, it was common to receive or have electronic communications reported to me during the course of the investigation in which senior investigators and law enforcement supervisors (some are potential witnesses and investigative team members) specifically made fun of suspects and referenced “Cliven Bundy felony. . . .just kind of rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?.” di1dos,” western themed g@y bars, odors of sweat, playing chess with menstru*ting women. Cliven Bundy sh1tting on cold stainless steel, personal lubricant and Ryan Bundy holding a giant penls (on April 12 2014).
Extremely bias and degrading fliers were-also openly displayed and passed around the office, a booking photo of Cliven Bundy was (and is) inappropriately, openly, prominently and proudly displayed in the office of a potential trial witnesses and my supervisor and an altered and degrading suspect photos were put in an office presentation by my supervisor’ Additionally, this investigation also indicated that former BLM SAC Dan Love sent photographs of his own feces and his girl-fiend’s vagina to coworkers and supervisors. It was also reported by another BLM SAC that former BLM SAC Dan Love told him that there is no way he gets more pu$$y than him. Furthermore, I became aware of potentially captured comments in which our own law enforcement officers allegedly bragged about roughing up Dave Bundy, grinding his face into the ground, and Dave Bundy having little bits of gravel stuck in his face (from April 6, 2014). On two occasions, I also overheard a BLM SAC tell a BLM ASAC that another/other BLM employee(s) and potential trial witnesses didn’t properly turn in the required discovery material (likely exculpatory evidence). My supervisor even instigated the unprofessional monitoring of jail calls between defendants and their wives, without prosecutor or.FBI consent, for the apparent purpose of making fun of post arrest telephone calls…
Yes, that is your taxpayer dollars hard at work.
Then, on page 5, we get this rather interesting tidbit:
Additional Note: In this timeframe, a key witness deactivated his body camera. Further Note: It became clear to me a serious public and professional image problem had developed within the BLM Office of Law Enforcement and-Security. I felt I needed to work to correct this and mitigate the damage it no doubt had already done.
Further down, on the same page, we find an indication of the desire of SAC Dan Love for his place in history.
The investigation also indicated that on multiple occasions, former BLM Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Love specifically and purposely ignored U.S. Attorney’s office and BLM civilian management direction and intent as well as Nevada State Official recommendations in order to command the most intrusive, oppressive, large scale, and militaristic trespass cattle impound possible. Additionally, this investigation also indicated excessive use of force, civil rights and policy violations. The investigation indicated that there was little doubt there was an improper cover-up in virtually every matter that a particular BLM SAC participated in, or oversaw and that the BLM SAC was immune from discipline and the consequences of his actions
On page 6, we start to see some of the effort to cover-up some of the doings of SAC Love’s abusive nature being covered by his superiors including the FBI and the US Attorney’s office.
I personally informed Acting United States Attorney Steven Myhre and Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Nadia Ahmed, as well as Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent Joel Willis by telephone of these issues. When I did, my supervisor in my opinion deceptively acted ignorant and surprised. As the case continued, it became clear to me that once again, my supervisor failed to inform the U.S. Attorney’s Office Prosecution Team about exculpatory key witness statements. Note: During this investigation, my supervisor would also deceptively indicate to the Prosecution Team that no one else was in the room when he was on speakerphone. Thereby, allowing potential trial witnesses and his friends to inappropriately hear the contents of the discussion.
My supervisor even took photographs in the secure command post area of the Las Vegas FBI Headquarters and even after he was told that no photographs were allowed, he recklessly emailed out photographs of the “Arrest Tracking fall” in which Eric Parker and Cliven Bundy had “X’s” through their face and body (indicating prejudice and bias). Thereby, making this electronic communication subject to Federal Records Protections, the Litigation Hold, Discovery, and the FOIA.
Next, on pages 7 and 8, we have Myhre becoming upset because Wooten has disclosed some of what he has run across that is unethical, as well as some interesting disclosures regarding Dan Love and his contempt for life of people..
I am convinced that I was removed to prevent the ethical and proper further disclosure of the severe misconduct, failure to correct and report, and cover-ups by BLM OLES supervision. My supervisor told me that AUSA Steven Myhre “furiously demanded”, that I be removed from the case and mentioned something about us (the BLM, specifically my supervisor) not turning over (or disclosing) discovery related material issues I had with the BLM not following its own enabling statute, and a personal issue they thought I had with former BLM SAC Dan Love. Note: Prior to taking the assignment as Bundy/Gold Butte Investigation Case Agent/Lead investigator for the BLM/DOI, I didn’t know and had never spoken to former BLM SAC Dan Love. I was new to the agency and I was also specifically directed to lead an unbiased, professional , and independent investigation, which I tried to do, despite supervisory misconduct.
Time after time, I was told of former BLM SAC Love’s misconduct.
I was told by BLM Law Enforcement Supervisors that he had a “Kill Book’, as a trophy and in essence bragged about getting three individuals in Utah to commit suicide (see Operation Cerberus Action out of Blanding, Utah and the death of Dr. Redd), the “Failure Rock,” Directing Subordinates to Erase Official Government files in order to impede the efforts of rival civilian BLM employees in preparation for the “Burning Man” Special Event, unlawfully removing evidence, bragging about the number of OIG and internal investigations on him and indicating that he is untouchable, encouraging subordinates not to cooperate with internal and OIG investigations, his harassment of female Native American subordinate employee where Mr. Love allegedly had a doll that he referred to by the employees name and called her his drunk little Indian, etc., etc., etc.
Myhre is already implicated, but it gets worse, as we see on pages 8 and 9:
Additionally, AUSA Steven Myhre adopted a few troubling policies in reference to this case. When we became aware that Dave Bundy’s seized iPad likely contained remarks from BLM Law Enforcement Officers that is potentially evidence of civil rights violations and excessive use of force, Mr. Myhre and my supervisor not only apparently failed [to] initiate the appropriate follow-on actions, Mr. Myhre apparently failed to notify the Defense Counsel and also decided not to return the iPad back to Dave Bundy, even though the iPad wasn’t going to be searched pursuant to a search warrant or used as evidence in trial and Dave Bundy claimed he needed the iPad for his business. Mr. Myhre also adopted a policy of not giving a jury the option or ability to convict on lesser offenses and instead relied on a hard to prove, complicated prosecution theory in order to achieve maximum punishments (which has generally failed to this point). Also, the government relied on factually incorrect talking points and on (or about) February 15, 2017, misrepresented the case facts about government snipers during trial.
Note: The investigation indicated that there was at least one school trained Federal Sniper equipped with a scoped/magnified optic bolt action precision rifle, another Federal Officers equipped with a scoped/magnified optic large frame(308 caliber) AR style rifle, and many officers that used magnified optics with long range graduated reticles (out to 1,000 meters-approximately 500 meters on issued rifles depending on environmental conditions) on standard law enforcement issued AR (223 caliber/5.56 mm) and that often officers were in “over watch” positions. Additionally, the investigation also indicated the possibility that the FBI and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department had law enforcement snipers/designated-marksmen on hand for possible deployment.
Then, on pages 9 and 10, he plead for the various government participants to act in an ethical manner.
I ask that your office ensure that Acting United States Attorney Steven Myhre and the rest of the Cliven Bundy/Gold Butte Nevada Prosecution and investigative Team is conducting the prosecution in an ethical, appropriate, and professional matter. I also specifically ask that your office provide oversight to Mr. Myhre and his team regarding the affirmative responsibility to seek out evidence favorable to the accused, not to discourage the reporting of case issues and suspected misconduct, to report/act on suspected civil rights violations and not to retaliate against an agent that does his required duty. I also ask that your office ensure that the Prosecution Team is free of bias and-has ethically and correctly turned over exculpatory evidence to the Defense. I ask that as appropriate, prosecution team bias (by Mr. Myhre and possibly by AUSA Daniel Schiess) and factually incorrect talking points (by AUSA Nadia Ahmed and Mr. Myhre) be disclosed and corrected. Note: Mr. Myhre previously referred to the defendants as a cult and Mr. Schiess said let’s get these “shall we say Deplorables.”
Next, on page 10, we find Steven Myhre deeply involved in misconduct and trying desperately to rid himself of Wooten and the potential for disclosure of the misdeeds of the prosecution team.
I believe this case closely mirrors the circumstances of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens trial. As you may notice from the trials and several defense cross-examinations, very little of the impeachment and exculpatory issues were brought up by the defense. I believe this is most likely because the defense counsel was unethically not made aware of them and the severe issues were covered up. Additionally, I believe I can easily show that both my supervision and possibly Mr. Myhre entered into an unethical agreement to remove me from being the lead investigator and case agent for the BLM/DOI due to my objection to and disclosure of outrageous misconduct, the belief that my testimony under oath would embarrass supervisory law enforcement officials in our agency and negatively affect the prosecution, my insistence that my supervisor stop his individual misconduct, correct the misconduct of other employees and report the misconduct as appropriate (for counseling, correction, discipline and the possible required internal investigations) and my belief’ that my agency is violating the letter and intent of the law.
In regard to Prosecution team misconduct, I believe some of it may be attributable to simple mistakes and simple poor judgment. However, I believe it is unlikely (if my supervisor’s statements to me are true) that Mr. Myhre wasn’t himself acting unethically and inappropriately. Prior to the last few weeks of the investigation, I held Mr. Myhre in the highest of regards. He is an extremely hard worker and very intelligent. However I feel that his judgment is likely clouded by extreme personal and religious bias and a desire to win the case at all costs. I feel he is likely willing to ignore and fail to report exculpatory material. extreme bias and act unethically and possibly deceptively to win.
On page 12, we gain some insight into the effect of standing up for the right things, and how others reacted to their role in the game.
Additionally, it should be noted that I was also personally subjected to Whistle blowing Discouragement, Retaliation, and Intimidation. Threatening and questionable behaviors included the following: Invasion of Privacy, Search and Seizure, Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying, Blacklisting, Religious “tests,” and Rude and Condescending Language. Simply put, I believe I was expected to keep quiet as a condition of my continued employment, any future promotions, future awards, or a favorable recommendation to another employer.
During the course of the investigation, I determined that any disagreement with the BLM SAC, or any reporting of his many likely embarrassing.
unethical/unprofessional actions and misconduct was thought to be career destroying. Time and time again, I came to believe that the BLM SAC’s subordinates and peers were afraid to correct him or properly report his misconduct (despite a duty to act) out of fear for their own jobs and reputation.
Sometimes, I felt these issues were reported to me by senior BLM OLES management and line Rangers/Agents/employees because they personally didn’t like a particular BLM SAC (although, some of these same people seemed to flatter, buddy up to, openly like, and protect the BLM SAC
On page 15, Wooten explains what he had to rely upon to write this report, with a Note:
Note: This entire document was constructed without the aid of my original notes due to their seizure by a BLM Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge outside of my presence and without my knowledge or permission, Additionally, I was aggressively questioned regarding the belief that I may have audio recorded BLM OLES management regarding their answers concerning this and other issues. All dates, times, and quotes are approximate and made to the best of my ability and memory. I’m sure there are more noteworthy items that I can’t recall at the time I constructed this document. Also Note: The other likely report worthy items were seized from me on February 18, 2017, and are believed to be in the possession of a BLM ASAC. I recommend these items be safeguarded and reviewed.
Now, I have only reported on some of the highlights of the expose’ provided by Larry Wooten. This, of itself, is not conclusive, as there is a process that has to be put into play. However, there can be little doubt that if only some of these allegations are true, then some lives, those of some government employees, are going to be negatively affected, while those Defendants that have been denied justice as a consequence of these unlawful activities, are going got finally be vindicated for their actions back in April, 2014.
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Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
David Knight interview with Shari Dovale Dec. 16, 2017. Shari state there is a possiblity of the charges being dismissed with prejudice.. ~ J Grady
Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
Shari Dovele has published the the breaking news events coming out the last couple of days one article with links to both the Klemen cover up report and Wooten’s report. She explains how the DOJ/BLM thought the Wooten disclosures were detrimental to their case.
Rep. Shea Reveals MORE Breaking News About BLM
YOU CAN SEE, BY THEIR OWN WORDING, THAT THEY THOUGHT THE WOOTEN DISCLOSURES WERE DETRIMENTAL TO THEIR CASE.
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Rep. Shea Reveals MORE Breaking News About BLM
by Shari Dovale
Washington Representative Matt Shea is all over these leaks coming out of the Bunkerville ‘Trial of the Century’. Exclusively through Redoubt News, Shea tells the world about ANOTHER leaked document that has BLM Agent Kent Klemen trying to discredit the Larry Wooten whistleblower report, but it actually reinforces Wooten’s information.
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Klemen Report
To begin with, Agent Kent Klemen was a government witness in this case, who was asked by Acting US Attorney Steven Myhre to investigate the shredding of the documents found at the Incident Command Post (ICP) after the BLM and FBI left the area. Not only did Myhre want Klemen to lead the investigation but Myhre also defined the parameters of this same investigation.
It is interesting that this trained investigator never ask anyone involved “Why” they were shredding documents or “Who” directed them to shred the documents.
Now, we have AUSA Myhre asking his favorite investigator to handle this whistle-blower report, as well. The Klemen report begins:
On February 17,2017, BLM Special Agent (SA) Larry “Clint” Wooten was removed from the Bundy investigative team at the request of lead prosecutor First Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Myhre. Myhre stated that Wooten had made recent statements that Wooten believes that the BLM lacks law enforcement authority. Additionally, Wooten recently stated to Bundy case prosecutors that in Wooten’s opinion the government withheld exculpatory evidence involving Special Agent-in-Charge (SAC) Dan Love.
He then explains how he got onto this investigation:
Myhre requested that I collect and review Wooten’s case materials to identify any previously undisclosed information. Myhre specifically requested that I review Wooten’s “rumor log” that Wooten implied to the prosecutors contained this withheld exculpatory information. Myhre also requested that I review any material related to Wooten’s claim that Dan Love ordered BLM officers to “rough up” Bundy family members or to “kick Cliven Bundy in the teeth” that Wooten said BLM SA Rand Stover knew about.
You can see, by their own wording, that they thought the Wooten disclosures were detrimental to their case. Calling it a “rumor log” shows they want the report discredited.
“Potential Issues/Critical Vulnerabilities.”
The reviewed materials included calendar notes for a conference call with prosecutors on October 14, 2016. Listed under “Critical Vulnerabilities”, the report itemizes the following topics that the BLM agent felt were critical:
1. BLM was heavy handed even cruel in the enforcement of the court order.
2. BLM lacked law enforcement authority in their case.
3. BLM is a poor manager of the resources such as grazing.
4. DL (Dan Love) had a personal agenda and is immoral (jury appeal)
This indicates this is nothing new to AUSA Myhre. The prosecutors knew about this since the conference call on October 14, 2016! It did not suddenly get revealed to him in February 2017. He knew about this months before.
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Wooten Report
However, nothing was done until Larry Wooten pressed the issue. The prosecutors never turned over this information to the defense, as is required under the Brady Rules. Not when they first learned of it, and not when Larry Wooten wrote his email report. Not even when Klemen was told to investigate Wooten after he wrote the whistle-blower email.
And not anytime during the first two trials of these 19 men. It was not revealed until well into the third trial.
This report verifies that the Bureau of Land Management’s own investigator believed that the BLM was in violation of the law during the Bunkerville protest!
It is time for the prosecution to stop playing fast and loose with the Brady rules. Judge Gloria Navarro needs to take control and sanction these rogue government employees.
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Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
Maxine Bernstein @ Oregon Live
Ammon Bundy: Not surprised prosecutors under fire in Nevada standoff case
LAS VEGAS - Ammon Bundy said he was at times on the brink of despair behind bars but now is at peace as he awaits a judge's ruling on whether a federal conspiracy prosecution against he, his father, older brother and another co-defendant will proceed.
The 42-year-old was released Nov. 30 after a year and 10 months in custody and is now staying at a relative's home in Las Vegas, supervised with GPS monitoring and a curfew. He said he relies on his faith and is hopeful the "light will be brought forth.''
He said he was buoyed by the Nov. 27 memo from a Bureau of Land Management whistleblower that prosecutors shared with defense lawyers in the midst of trial on Dec. 8, feeling it corroborated much of what he and his co-defendants already knew.
Agent Larry Wooten sent the memo to the U.S. Department of Justice, citing serious concerns about Dan Love , the land management agent who led the impound operation of Bundy cattle in April 2014. Wooten described Love's "heavy handedness'' in disregard of superiors' directions that could have cost lives, alleged Love and other agency supervisors withheld potentially damning evidence and that he was removed from the investigative team because he raised concerns about his agency's unprofessional behavior.
Wooten, in the same memo, though said the defendants adopted an "aggressive and bully type strategy,'' and that Cliven Bundy and his supporters, "chose an illegal, uncivilized and dangerous strategy'' instead of properly addressing his grievances on federal grazing permits and restrictions through appropriate channels.
Ammon Bundy said the government made a mistake by locking up his father, brothers and him for so long, as it gave them a lot of uninterrupted time to pore through case discovery and learn about the law.
"We've been locked away for the last two years with discovery that's been sealed. We've done our due diligence going through every file, trying to understand every video, trying to understand every bodycam, every dash cam,'' Bundy said. "We have understood that this has been going on, but we haven't been able to tell the public. So the fact that it has come out doesn't surprise us at all.''
He said he expects it may be easier for the public to accept Wooten's claims about alleged federal misconduct during the 2014 cattle impound operation and standoff, since they're being made by someone from within the federal land management agency.
He said he expects U.S. District Judge Gloria M. Navarro to dismiss the federal conspiracy case, or he and his co-defendants will be acquitted at trial. Navarro last week raised the prospect of a potential mistrial, the striking of certain witness testimony or a trial delay as potential remedies if she found prosecutors violated evidence discovery requirements.
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Ammon Bundy outside the federal courthouse in Nevada Monday morning, Dec. 18, 2017. Maxine Bernstein|Staff
Bundy, his father Cliven Bundy, older brother Ryan Bundy and co-defendant Ryan Payne are charged with federal conspiracy, threat, assault and extortion charges. They're accused of rallying militia and armed supporters in April 2014 to thwart a court-ordered federal roundup of the Bundy cattle that were trespassing on federal public land after the senior Bundy failed to pay grazing fees and fines for two decades. Federal agents and rangers, outnumbered, retreated and the Bundys were indicted a year and a half later in the Nevada case, after Ammon Bundy and Ryan Bundy were arrested for leading an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon.
The judge is expected to rule by Wednesday morning on whether the Bunkerville case will proceed in light of at least seven potential evidence discovery violations she cited by the prosecution, and the surfacing of this whistleblower memo. Only three prosecution witnesses have been called since opening statements on Nov. 14.
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Ammon Bundy lifted his right pants leg to show the GPS monitoring device covered by his sock. The device is used by federal officers to track Bundy's location while he's out of custody during his trial. Maxine Bernstein|Staff
Prosecutors submitted a reply late Thursday, attempting to downplay the relevance of the material turned over in the course of trial or its impact on the case. Defense lawyers had until noon Monday to respond. Lawyers from both sides are set to return to court at 8 a.m. Wednesday, but could be called back sooner.
Ammon Bundy owes about $180,000 in legal fees from his federal trial in Portland, his trucking business has been curtailed while he's been in jail, and he wasn't allowed any contact visits with his wife and children until his release last month.
He acknowledged the immense hardship his lengthy jailing has caused his wife, his children, his business and financial situation. At times, with decades of potential prison time hanging over his head if convicted of the federal charges in Nevada, Bundy said he wondered if he'd ever get to spend time with his family ever again.
"The impact has been great and terrible, terribly great because we have grown tremendously from this. I look back at the pain and suffering we have gone through, and I almost cringe today just thinking about it,'' he said. "But as long as we don't get bitter, as long as we don't get hard, we'll be able to survive and be better at the end. Even with the financial situation of my business and all of that being attacked, we'll be fine...we'll make it.''
He said he's believed he and his family would prevail since he experienced a spiritual awakening while in custody in Portland. He also got through his jail time by looking forward to telling his family's story at trial in Nevada.
"I came to understand this case was going to be an instrument in bringing forth truth and exposing corruption of what the government is doing to not only us and not only to the agricultural community but people in general,'' he said.
Ammon Bundy said he feels as if he's gained more strength through the challenge of being in custody, and has seen his wife and children become closer to God and "more determined to stand for what is right.''
"I'm not so tender, if you will. I've run out of tears,'' he said. "But I don't feel like I'm hardened...I'm not bitter at the Bureau of Land Management. I'm not bitter at the prosecutors or the judge because I know that the light will be brought forth.''
Yet Bundy said the public should be outraged about the government's delay in sharing of evidence, and the whistleblower's allegations.
Defense lawyers and Ryan Bundy, who is representing himself, have through questioning of witnesses, slowly drawn out information about a live-feed FBI camera on a hill overlooking the Bundy ranch and federal agents with assault rifles on watch outside the ranch before the April 12, 2014 standoff - material that wasn't shared by the government before trial. The information, defense lawyers have argued, bolsters the Bundy defense that they felt under siege by militaristic federal officers, and supporters came to help them defend their rights.
While Bundy said he's not bitter, he said he feels as though the prosecutors have been "digging a hole for us,'' but are going to be buried in it themselves.
To be able to walk out of the federal courthouse on Nov. 30 and hug his wife and six children was an indescribable, amazing feeling, he said. Before then, he had only seen the downtown federal courthouse through the mesh windows of a paddywagon, while constrained in leg irons, a belly chain and handcuff, during his transport to and from jail. He said he lost about 40 pounds in custody, and was thankful to have the chance to devour " a good steak'' during a barbecue on his second day out of custody.
Ammon Bundy said he considered remaining in custody as his father Cliven Bundy has chosen, despite the judge's order to release him, but then realized he could do more good outside of jail. As for Cliven Bundy, his son said,"I don't think he wanted to come out and be an example of how to be a prisoner in his own home.''
"We're not in any way free,'' said Bundy, pulling up his right pant leg to show the GPS monitoring anklet he has tucked inside his sock. His lawyer Monday also was about to submit a motion, asking that Ammon Bundy be allowed to spend Christmas together with his wife and children at a different location.
Asked if he'd lead similar armed standoffs if a mistrial or a dismissal is declared, "I hope that is not necessary.''
-- Maxine Bernstein
mbernstein@oregonian.com
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@maxoregonian
Re: Armed Feds Prepare For Showdown With Nevada Cattle Rancher
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