BLM investigator alleges misconduct by feds in Bundy ranch standoff

OregonLive ^ | 12/15/2017 | Maxine Bernstein

[Nextrush]

A scathing memo from the lead investigator who assessed how federal officers handled the 2014 armed standoff with Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy accuses agents of far-reaching misconduct, recklessness and unrestrained antipathy towards the family.

Prosecutors shared it last week with defense lawyers for Bundy, his two sons and co-defendant Ryan Payne as they were in the midst of their conspiracy trial, but it's not part of the public court record.

The memo prompted Cliven Bundy's lawyer to file a motion early Monday to dismiss the case, already in disarray over concerns raised previously about the government's failure to promptly share evidence with the defense....

The memo comes from Larry Wooten, who had been the lead case agent and investigator for the US Bureau of Land Management after the tense confrontation outside the patriarch's ranch near Bunkerville. Wooten also testified before a federal grand jury that returned indictments against the Bundy's. He said he was removed from the investigation last February after he complained to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Nevada.

Then last month he sent a whistleblower email to the U.S. Department of Justice, alleging a "widespread pattern of bad judgement, lack of discipline, incredible bias, unprofessionalism and misconduct, as well as likely policy, ethical and legal violations among senior and supervisory staff" at the Bureau of Land Management's Office of Law Enforcement and Security.

Wooten wrote that supervisory agents with the bureau repeatedly mocked the defendants in an "amateurish carnival atmosphere" that resembled something out of middle school, displayed "clear prejudice" against the Bundy's, their supporters and Mormons, and prominently displayed degrading altered booking photos of Cliven Bundy and other defendants in a federal office and in an office presentation.......

[Nextrush]

The info is leaking out about matters in the Bunkerville Standoff case as a secret process on evidence withheld from the defense continues towards a judge's decision next week.

[peeps36]

A lot of Blm scumbags should be out of a job and probably spend time in prison. This is what happens when a treasonous piece of shit is president for 8 years. He turned government agencies on patriotic Americans.

[knarf]

Lavoy Finicum’s murder MUST be avenged, if there is any justice.

[Nextrush]

Obama was around now Trump is isolated with RINO’s around him and Roy Moore taken out this week by the Uniparty swamp creatures.

Politics rules the roost with Republicans like Ryan Zinke at Interior which runs the BLM proclaiming victory in Donald Trump’s name because Obama’s national monument designations involving millions of acres of land are being scaled back.

Shouldn’t they be reversed 100 percent and completely eliminated??????

The GOP way is to do what the Dems do at a slower rate, a slower pace and that’s what Zinke is doing at Interior.

[hal ogen]

Apparently, when push comes to shove the blm losers display their crypto-Nazi tendencies and go full fascist. Arrest these clods and hold them accountable for their hate crimes against Free Citizens.

[marktwain]

This is what Weissman on the Mueller “special investigator” team specializes in.

Keep exculpatory evidence hidden, or claim it is immaterial, but do not allow the defense to have access to it.

This is rot from the head down in the DOJ.

The DOJ did the same thing with Senator Stevens prosecution to tip the balance in the Senate. Stevens was exonerated of all charges... after he lost the election by a hair, because of the false charges.

[Dubh_Ghlase]

A lot of Blm scumbags should be out of a job and probably spend time in prison. This is what happens when a treasonous piece of shit is president for 8 years. He turned government agencies on patriotic Americans.

Totally agree. Until the so-called "Law Enforcers" face the same consequences as their accused "Law Breakers", they will continue to abuse those they are supposed to be protecting. Another fallout from the Deep State Syndrome...

[PJ-Comix]

Wooten accused Dan Love, the former special agent-in-charge of the cattle roundup for the Bureau of Land Management, of intentionally ignoring direction from the U.S. Attorney's Office and his superiors "in order to command the most intrusive, oppressive, large scale and militaristic trespass cattle impound possible.'' He described Love as immune from discipline, though Love eventually was fired from the bureau for misconduct in an unrelated case.

Wooten said he learned from other agency supervisors that Love had a "Kill Book'' as a "trophy,'' in which he essentially bragged about "getting three individuals in Utah to commit suicide,'' following a joint FBI-BLM investigation into the alleged trafficking of stolen artifacts.

...On Feb. 16, Wooten said he asked Myhre if statements that Love made, such as "Go out there and kick Cliven Bundy in the mouth (or teeth) and take his cattle'' or "I need you to get the troops fired up to go get those cows and not take any crap from anyone'' would be considered evidence that must be shared with the defense. He said that Myhre replied, saying something like "we do now'' or "it is now.''

[Georgia Girl 2]

I knew something was up when that judge started letting people out on bail. It must have killed her to do it. Her azz needs to be in jail.