Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Ammon Bundy: Not surprised prosecutors under fire in Nevada standoff case

The 42-year-old has been staying at a relative's home in Las Vegas, supervised with GPS monitoring and a curfew, after spending a year and 10 months in custody following his arrest in Oregon. Outside the downtown courthouse, wearing a cowboy hat, brown plaid shirt and a black Carhartt vest, he said he was buoyed by a new memo from a U.S. Bureau of Land Management whistleblower that alleged misdeeds by federal agents during the investigation of the 2014 armed standoff outside his father's ranch near Bunkerville. Agent Larry Wooten sent the Nov. 27 memo to the U.S. Department of Justice, citing serious concerns about the "heavy-handedness" of Dan Love, the BLM agent who led the round-up Cliven Bundy's cattle after the family patriarch failed to pay grazing fees and fines for two decades. Wooten alleged Love and other agency supervisors withheld evidence, abused their power and actively ridiculed the Bundys, though Wooten also said Cliven Bundy and his supporters "chose an illegal, uncivilized and dangerous strategy" to express their grievances."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 body cam, 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.''...more

Here is the video:
https://youtu.be/dJbYaqEPkEM

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