Posted on 01/18/2018 7:47:58 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments
Federal judge Gloria Navarro slammed the FBI and Justice Department on Monday, Jan. 8, for outrageous abuses and flagrant misconduct in the prosecution of Cliven Bundy and sons, the Nevada ranchers who spurred a high-profile standoff with the FBI and Bureau of Land Management in 2014. Navarro condemned the "grossly shocking withholding of evidence from defense counsel in a case that could have landed the Bundys in prison for the rest of their lives. Navarro, who had declared a mistrial last month, dismissed all charges against the Bundys.
Navarro was especially riled because the FBI spent three years covering up or lying about the role of their snipers in the 2014 standoff. The Bundys faced conspiracy charges because they summoned militia to defend them after claiming FBI snipers had surrounded their ranch. Justice Department lawyers scoffed at this claim but newly-released documents vindicate the Bundys. In an interview Saturday, Ammon Bundy reviled the feds: They basically came to kill our family, they surrounded us with snipers. And then they wanted to lie about it all like none of it happened."
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Ouch! The dreaded triple post. (I actually hit the return button once, but really hard.)
Janet Reno turned the arms of the DOJ into politicized weapons. When the Ellian Gonzalez front page picture showing a Kevlar shielded killer pointing an automatic weapon at the child and his uncle and nobody cared.......or burned everyone alive at Waco and nobody cared,,...........?Where do we go from there?
Actually Ruby Ridge was initially a pappy bush thing.
Yep
A well regulated militia could be explained as a whole lot of regular folk who can also hit a target at 500 yards. Exception being we the people don’t draw a bead on pets, pregnant ladies, or babies.
The congressional cover-up was during Clinton. I remember the hearings with Feinstein covering and obfuscating the facts of the case.
Yep. Killing civilians while exercising the deep state’s reach is something that crossed party lines. Still does.
Where? Fusion GPS and the Mueller investigation.
“There are folks here from Nevada that dont appreciate seeing the Bundys grazing their cattle for free.”
Well, there are others “from Nevada” including my wife (LVHS Class of 1960), whose father worked in the dairy business in the Overton Valley, who think the Bundy’s have every right to graze their cattle as they have for about a century. Grazing fees are the least of what was going on in Bunkerville. It was more like Harry Reid and his merry band of Commies wanting the Bundys off the land so they could make a bunch of money off of it “repurposing” it, and the broader issue of the fact that 89% of Nevada “belongs” to the Fed Gov.
Thanks for the explanation. I never covered the story much being so far away from the action. I tended, myself, to come down on the side of the Bundys but was confused as to some freeper antagonism towards them.
Thanks again.
That whole situation disgusts me, and even that the agent that made the shot on mom in the doorway endorses certain optics etc. Americans should of smacked the hell out of that agency the next day.
Uh no. Ruby Ridge = Bush
Apparently the Bundys are not user-friendly in real life, and that engendered some apathy and hostility to their cause.
Cop sympathizers who painted the Bundy's as lying freeloading thieves.
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