“I’m a little stirred up by the award, Cliven Bundy told The Oregonian/OregonLive. “I can’t understand the reasoning why the award would be given nine years down the road. We sort of wanted to have faith in Kash Patel, but this throws his integrity away.”
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“Beyond words!” Jeanette Finicum wrote in a Facebook post. “How are we supposed to trust law enforcement, FBI in particular, when they … refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes … Mr. President, I had such hope that you would clean things up! But the government corruption continues. Just new lipstick on the same old pig!”
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“The Finicum family is both devastated and angry” by the award to Astarita and the other FBI agents involved in the stop, said Mark Herr, a family spokesperson. “This is like a scab being pulled off and a wound being reopened rather than being allowed to heal and close.”
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Cliven Bundy, involved in his own dispute with the federal government over cattle grazing rights on public land, said he had hoped Patel would “clean up” the FBI.
“We thought Kash Patel was going to be the honest part of the FBI here,” he said. “But now, as ranchers out here in the West, we look at him as being our enemy now.”
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The caption on the FBI award photo said they responded to a “violent extremist militia group’s armed takeover” of the refuge and helped stage a traffic stop to arrest one of the militia’s leaders and key members who “planned to meet clandestinely outside the refuge.”
But the caption’s description of what occurred next doesn’t square with testimony and evidence presented during Astarita’s three-week trial.
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I know these guys aren’t necessarily consistent, but I’m really not sure I understand the political calculation on this one.
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