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The Hill, January 14, 2018<\/h3>\n
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Fed’s misconduct in Cliven Bundy case stems from Ruby Ridge<\/a><\/h1>\n

by James Bovard<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0Federal judge Gloria Navarro slammed the FBI and Justice Department on Monday, Jan. 8, for \u201coutrageous\u201d abuses and \u201cflagrant misconduct\u201d<\/a> 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\u201d 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<\/a>, dismissed all charges against the Bundys.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Navarro was especially riled because the FBI spent three years<\/a> 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<\/a>. In an interview<\/a> Saturday, Ammon Bundy reviled the feds: \u201cThey 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.”<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Many of the heavily-armed activists who flocked to the scene feared that the FBI snipers had a license to kill the Bundys. Their reaction cannot be understood without considering a landmark 1990s case that continues to shape millions of Americans\u2019 attitude towards Washington: the federal killings and coverups at Ruby Ridge.Randy Weaver<\/a> and his family lived in an isolated cabin in the mountains of northern Idaho. Weaver was a white separatist who believed races should live apart; he had no record of violence against other races \u2014 or anyone else. An undercover federal agent entrapped him into selling a sawed-off shotgun. The feds then sought to pressure Weaver to become an informant but he refused.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After Weaver was sent the wrong court date<\/a> and failed to show up, the feds launched a vendetta. Idaho lawyer David Nevin<\/a> noted that U.S.:<\/p>\n

\u201cMarshals called in military aerial reconnaissance and had photos studied by the Defense Mapping Agency. They prowled the woods around Weaver\u2019s cabin with night-vision equipment. They had psychological profiles performed and installed $130,000 worth of long-range solar-powered spy cameras. \u2026 They even knew the menstrual cycle of Weaver\u2019s teenage daughter, and planned an arrest scenario around it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On August 21, 1992, six camouflaged U.S. Marshals carrying machine guns trespassed onto the Weavers\u2019 property. Three marshals circled close to the Weaver cabin and killed one of their dogs. A firefight ensued and 14-year old Sammy Weaver was shot<\/a> in the back and killed as he was leaving the scene. Kevin Harris, a family friend, responded<\/a> by fatally shooting a federal marshal who had fired seven shots in the melee.<\/p>\n

The next day, the FBI sent in its Hostage Rescue Team snipers with orders to shoot to kill any adult male<\/a> outside the Weaver cabin. A federal appeals court ruling later noted that:<\/p>\n

\u201cFBI agents formulated rules of engagement that permitted their colleagues to hide in the bushes<\/a> and gun down men who posed no immediate threat. Such wartime rules are patently unconstitutional for a police action.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

FBI sniper Lon Horiuchi shot<\/a> Randy Weaver in the back after he stepped out of his cabin, wounding him. Horiuchi then shot and killed Vicki Weaver standing in the cabin door holding their 10-month old baby. A confidential 1994 Justice Department task force report concluded:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe absence of a (surrender demand) subjected the Government to charges that it was setting Weaver<\/a> up for attack.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Weaver and Harris surrendered after an 11-day siege<\/a>. At their 1993 trial, federal prosecutors asserted that Weaver long conspired to have an armed confrontation with the government. The feds bizarrely asserted that moving from Iowa to a spot near the Canadian border in 1985 was part of Weaver\u2019s plot<\/a>. After an Idaho jury largely exonerated the defendants, federal judge Edward Lodge slammed DOJ and FBI misconduct and fabrication of evidence in the case.<\/p>\n

Regardless of the judge\u2019s condemnation, FBI chief Louis Freeh in 1995 exonerated the FBI for its actions at Ruby Ridge. That year, after I slammed Freeh\u2019s whitewash in the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and elsewhere, Freeh denounced my \u201cinflammatory and unfounded allegations<\/a>.\u201d Five months later, I snared a confidential 542-page Justice Department report on Ruby Ridge<\/a>, excerpting its damning findings in a Wall Street Journal piece. The coverup unraveled and the feds paid the Weaver family $3.1 million to settle their wrongful-death<\/a> lawsuit. A top FBI official was sent to prison for destroying key evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But the FBI sniper who killed Vicki Weaver never faced justice. When Boundary County, Idaho, sought to prosecute Horiuchi in 1998, the Clinton administration invoked<\/a> the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution (which blocks local and state governments from challenging federal power) to torpedo their lawsuit. Solicitor General Seth Waxman absolved the sniper because \u201cfederal law-enforcement officials are privileged to do what would otherwise be unlawful<\/a> if done by a private citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

While that claim may sway federal judges, it often fails to charm jurors. A Justice Department brief in the Bundy case revealed<\/a> that prosecutors dreaded jury nullification \u2014 \u201cnot guilty\u201d verdicts due to government abuses. That specter spurred prosecutors to withhold key evidence from both the court and the defense counsel, resulting in a mistrial and dismissal of charges.<\/p>\n

Judge Navarro rightly declared that \u201ca universal sense of justice has been violated<\/a>\u201d by federal misconduct in the Bundy trial. Americans\u2019 trust in the FBI and Justice Department will not be restored until those agencies are compelled to obey the law and the Constitution. Until that happens, federal prosecutors should continue fearing verdicts from Americans who refuse to convict those whom the feds wrongfully vilify.<\/p>\n

James Bovard is <\/em>a USA Today columnist<\/em><\/a> and the author of 10 books, including \u201c<\/em>Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty<\/em><\/a>\u201d (St. Martin\u2019s Press, 1994).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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