Joshua Martinez with has an update on today at the trial. Feb. 16
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Joshua Martinez with has an update on today at the trial. Feb. 16
http://youtu.be/5Z8mLvHGCzM
https://youtu.be/5Z8mLvHGCzM
Anthony Dephue and Andrea Olson-Parker end of day report Feb. 16
the audio is better on this video than the previous two for this morning.
http://youtu.be/20yUTNVjKPo
https://youtu.be/20yUTNVjKPo
House Oversight Committee Jason Chaffetz's (R) Utah letter to deputy inspector general regarding Dan Love's deleting documents
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need to read USC 18 Sec 1001 to see where the "Hillary" exception is.
Was Dan Love at the Finicum traffic stop?
No, Dan Love was not involved there. That was Oregon State Police and the FBI.
More on the Jason Chaffetz investigation.
These so called "police" the militarized, armed park rangers and BLM rangers do not have police power or arrest powers in the states. The real problem is the state governments take federal dollars, then allow the federalies to walk all over them rather than enforce the law and keep these animals out of the state. The US Constitution, the state constitutions, federal law, and state laws all give criminal jurisdictions to the states. Since 911 and rhe passage of the (un)Patriot Act and the NADA, National Defence Authorization Act, the feds have usurped jurisdiction in the name of fighting terrorism. The states could stop them, but they won't because they would lose their federal funding.
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Chaffetz calls for wider probe of BLM agent
SALT LAKE CITY — Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, has called for a wider probe of a federal Bureau of Land Management agent who played a key role in the standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy before coming under investigation for his activities at Burning Man.
Chaffetz, chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said in a letter that the allegations against Salt Lake City BLM supervisor Daniel Love could undermine trust in the agency and should be probed by Department of Interior inspectors. The department's Office of Inspector General did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the letter released Friday.
Chaffetz pointed to reports that Love asked employees to "scrub" emails before responding to a congressional records request and delete documents from a shared server. He was also accused of coaching an employee on what to say before an interview with government investigators.
The Office of Inspector General has previously faulted the supervisory agent from Salt Lake City for accepting sold-out Burning Man tickets and having agents drive around his family during the Nevada event in 2015.
The investigators also found evidence he manipulated a hiring process so a friend could get a job at the BLM. The report released Jan. 30 was referred to higher-ups for possible disciplinary action.
The BLM didn't immediately return a call seeking comment on the Chaffetz letter dated Feb. 14. Messages left at publicly listed phone numbers for Love were also not immediately returned Friday.
Love, who oversaw the Bundy cattle roundup in 2014, is expected to be an important witness for the prosecution during a trial unfolding in Las Vegas for six men accused of illegally wielding weapons during the standoff.
Defense attorneys pushing for the case to be dismissed say they should have previously been informed about the allegations against Love.
He was also the target of a federal lawsuit from the family of a southern Utah doctor, James Redd, who killed himself after he was arrested in a 2009 artifact looting investigation that marked an early skirmish in the struggle for control of public lands.
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The family said BLM agents led by Love used excessive force when they arrested Redd at gunpoint.
That case was dismissed by an appeals court Monday after judges found the presence of agents in SWAT-like gear wasn't unreasonable given the large volume of evidence and longstanding local opposition to federal control of public lands.
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Free Range Report on Dan Love investigation. No information we already have not seen.
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House Oversight pushes for probe of ethics breaches, possible crimes of BLM bully Dan Love
February 18, 2017 editor One comment
“As a federal law enforcement officer, Love’s actions have the potential to not only taint your investigation, but to seriously undermine the trust in BLM’s law enforcement office and thwart congressional oversight of the Bureau. As such, I request that you investigate the specific allegations raised in your interviews of destruction of federal records, witness tampering, and obstruction of a congressional investigation.”by Marjorie Haun
On Valentines day, the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform wrote a letter responding to the Department of Interior’s Inspector General’s report on the “numerous instances of troubling behavior exhibited by (Dan) Love.”
The investigation of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agent, Dan Love, has been ongoing and complex. With a history of complaints against Love of bullying, overly-aggressive tactics, ethics violations, and now, tampering, lies, and cover-ups, it appears that the most infamous figure in recent BLM history is now under the scrutiny of Congress’ most powerful investigative arm. The House Oversight Committee, headed by Jason Chaffetz, cites extremely serious, potentially-criminal activities, that go beyond Love’s ethics breaches related to the Burning Man controversy of 2015, or his extreme mishandling of the Operation Cerberus and Bundy Ranch cases. Love’s possible criminal activities include; destruction of federal records, witness tampering, and obstruction of a congressional investigation.
The letter from Oversight to Interior Department Deputy Inspector General, Mary L. Kendall, details many of the complaints, and instances of possible criminal activity by Love:I understand your office initiated this investigation in October of 2015 after receiving numerous complaints concerning Bureau of Land Management (BLM) employee Daniel Paul Love. The report documents numerous instances of troubling behavior exhibited by Love (excerpts taken from letter):
The letter (below) is signed by Chairman of the Oversight Committee, Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz, and Blake Farenhold, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on the Interior, Energy and Environment. [PDF]
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There is no question that the avalanche of accusations against, and investigations into the activities of BLM agent Dan Love, will prove problematic for the feds’ attempted prosecution of Bundy Ranch defendants in the ongoing Nevada trials. Dan Love is a key prosecution witness in the Nevada trial, but his apparent tampering, lies, and destruction of records may completely derail the feds’ case. As Chaffetz’ fierce committee presses the Love investigation, years of outcry from the Bundys, and others in Nevada and Utah, including the family of Dr. James Redd, who have been victims of the arrogance and aggressive tactics of BLM agent Dan Love, may finally be vindicated.
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All the coverage Dan Love is receiving in the Nevada press can't be helping Jugde Gloria Navarro and the prosecution's case
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Letter names BLM agent in charge of Bundy case as target of federal ethics probe
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Dan Love, special agent in charge for the the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada and Utah, gives a radio interview during the Burning Man festival in 2015. Love has been picked to oversee security at BLM facilities nationwide. (BLM Nevada on Flickr) Love, special agent in charge for the the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada and Utah, gives a radio interview during the Burning Man festival in 2015. Love has been picked to oversee security at BLM facilities nationwide. (BLM Nevada on Flickr)
Bureau of Land Management agent Dan Love, a central figure in the government’s case against rancher Cliven Bundy, has been identified as the target of a federal ethics probe in a letter two congressional lawmakers sent to the Office of the Inspector General.
The Feb. 14 letter, sent by U.S. Reps. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, and Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, accuses Love of scrubbing emails, influencing witnesses and deleting hundreds of documents the day before a congressional investigative committee issued a records request. Chaffetz and Farenthold sit on the U.S. House Committee for Oversight and Government Reform.
The letter asks the Office of the Inspector General to further investigate Love following its release last month of an investigative report that slammed the agent for numerous ethics violations. The report found Love used his position to obtain tickets to a sold-out Burning Man festival, improperly intervened in the hiring process of a friend and bullied employees who could have reported his wrongdoing.
The latest allegations are likely to fuel defense arguments in the trial against six men charged as Bundy’s co-conspirators in a 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville. The incident occurred when the BLM, supervised by Love, tried to seize Bundy’s cattle.
Defense lawyers previously have suggested that Love is the target of the inspector general’s report, and have tried to introduce evidence related to the ethics accusations. They argue the standoff occurred because law enforcement officers acted improperly and aggressively.
In the letter, Chaffetz and Farenthold accuse Love of destroying federal records, tampering with witnesses and obstructing a congressional investigation. They cite unreleased records, including interviews with other BLM employees who were questioned during the inspector general’s investigation.
“After receiving a congressional request for documents, the witness heard Dan Love ‘say to (another BLM employee] that [said BLM employee) needed to make sure that he scrubbed the emails before he sent them, you know, flagging anything that looked inappropriate so that (Dan Love) could remove them if he needed,” the letter says.
The letter also accuses Love of trying to influence the investigation’s outcome by giving another employee “talking points” before an interview with investigators.
The letter does not identify the other employees interviewed about Love’s alleged misconduct. But defense attorney Todd Leventhal said last week that the investigative report named as many as five or six BLM employees who are on the government’s witness list in the Bunkerville standoff trial. Leventhal has said the other employees “aided and abetted” Love; First U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre maintains they were simply questioned as part of the investigation.
Myhre’s opening statement to jurors included references to Love’s efforts to de-escalate the standoff. The prosecutor since has said he does not plan to call Love, who was the special agent in charge, as a witness.
Chaffetz and Farenthold did not disclose what prompted them to investigate Love. But Chaffetz, who leads the House Oversight Committee, has introduced legislation to strip the BLM of its law enforcement functions. During the 2014 standoff with the BLM, Bundy called for participants to “disarm the National Park Service.”
Contact Jenny Wilson at jenwilson@reviewjournal.com or 702-384-8710. Follow @jennydwilson on Twitter.
"... report that slammed the agent for numerous ethics violations. The report found Love used his position to obtain tickets to a sold-out Burning Man festival, improperly intervened in the hiring process of a friend and bullied employees who could have reported his wrongdoing."
"...The incident occurred when the BLM, supervised by Love, tried to seize Bundy’s cattle."
"They argue the standoff occurred because law enforcement officers acted improperly and aggressively."
"Chaffetz and Farenthold accuse Love of destroying federal records, tampering with witnesses and obstructing a congressional investigation."
" the witness heard Dan Love ‘say to (another BLM employee] that [said BLM employee) needed to make sure that he scrubbed the emails before he sent them, you know, flagging anything that looked inappropriate so that (Dan Love) could remove them if he needed,” "
" accuses Love of trying to influence the investigation’s outcome by giving another employee “talking points” before an interview with investigators."
"Leventhal has said the other employees “aided and abetted” Love; First U.S. Attorney Steven Myhre maintains they were simply questioned as part of the investigation."
I wish the defendants had stronger looking claims against Love. I have heard that Love and his girlfriend were in a compromising situation in a BLM vehicle when they were discovered by some law enforcement entity at the Burning Man event. Even that, which does sound more like the whole truth, is not very strong ammunition as it only means Love was misusing government vehicle. These kind of accusations are a routine reality in all state agencies and they look kind of weak to me. But I do believe there is much more real bad acting going on with the BLM. For over a decade it has been playing every dirty trick in the book to grab up people's land in those western states. It has more to do with Agenda 21 and the U N and the banksters and a North American Union than just one little ole rogue federal agency that just sort of went off track only in the Bundy matter.
I just have to observe that there is much much more going on behind the scenes than we know about. I do not know if they are using an Obama Inspector General or a Trump Inspector General but that position is a very political position and it really does not have a record of being objective and honest. Think of Inspector General Ted Olsen, Barbara Olsen's husband, who lied and even changed his lies several times regarding "speaking on the phone on the plane in flight to crash at the Pentagon on 9-11."
The problem is that probably almost all federal and state agencies operate in this same manner and there is the ever present bribery / extortion /blackmail grid operating within government power circles. These disgusting agency power players really "circle the wagons" when there is a high-profile case in the courts and in the news such as the Bundy case in all the news. What has to happen is that someone out there who has "the goods" on someone such as Dan Love or preferably on someone even higher up in the agency will move behind the scenes to threaten to use the goods in a very public effective way if the case is not completely dropped against the Bundy's immediately. "The goods" preferably affects the top people of the BLM and must have the real potential to take down the whole BLM, to totally weaken the whole unlawful, unconstitutional outfit. That is the kind of thing that has to happen because proper conduct within the courts and the lawyers and the judges is way too much to hope for.
Just sayin'.
You have summed the situation up about as accurately as possible.
There were allegations previously that the BLM destroyed documents at the Bundy Ranch fiasco before they left. I have not seen any reference to that in the mainstream press. I am wondering if it will be brought out in the trial.
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The problem is that probably almost all federal and state agencies operate in this same manner and there is the ever present bribery / extortion /blackmail grid operating with government power circles. These disgusting agency power players really "circle the wagons" when there is a high-profile case in the courts and in the news such as the Bundy case in all the news. What has to happen is that someone out there who has "the goods" on someone such as Dan Love will move behind the scenes to threaten to use the goods in a very public effective way if the case is not completely dropped against the Bundy's immediately. "The goods" preferably affects the top people of the BLM and must have the real potential to take down the whole BLM, to totally weaken the whole unlawful, unconstitutional outfit. That is the kind of thing that has to happen because proper conduct within the courts and the lawyers and the judges is way too much to hope for.