Federal employees get a lot of days off but there were employees working somewhere at the refuge on December 30th with December 31st of course being a holiday for them.
They were sent home early that day since informants had already told the FBI about Ammon Bundy’s plans in a general enough way and this caused fear.
Heck, the unarmed Ammon Bundy, who never carried a gun during this protest billed by the media as an ‘armed takeover’ by ‘armed militiants’ or ‘armed militia’ wouldn’t have harmed them at all and said nothing to them as long as they weren’t hurting the livelihoods of the local ranchers.
Yet no Black Lies Matter folks as a group have never been rounded up snd charged in similar fashion.