http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/31228190/assemblywoman-calls-bundy-arrests-political-stunt
"Apr 25, 2016
Written by Cyndi Lundeberg
"Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore is home from Oregon but still upset about the arrests of Ryan, Ammon and Cliven Bundy. Fiore said Cliven Bundy’s arrest was a political stunt"
“I have coined the Bureau of Land Management a bureaucracy of terror,” she said. “[Bundy's arrest] has politics written all over it.”
"Bundy,69, was arrested last Wednesday and taken into custody at the Portland International Airport. The Bundy family said he was in Oregon to visit his sons, Ryan Bundy and Ammon Bundy, who were previously arrested for occupying the wildlife refuge in Harney County."
“These charges are bogus,” Fiore said.
"Unlike his sons, Cliven Bundy is facing charges stemming from the 2014 standoff in Bunkerville, NV. He is facing six felony charges, the most serious of which is assaulting an officer. If convicted, he could spend life in prison and face a fine of more than $1 million. "
"Craig Drummond, a federal criminal defense attorney based in Las Vegas, does not represent the Bundys but has handled a lot of federal cases."
“Am I critical of the government for [arresting Cliven Bundy]? No. Do I think they are always correct in who they hold accountable? Absolutely not," Drummond said.
"Drummond said the lawyers for the Bundys have difficult cases on their hands, specifically because the government does not have to prove the Bundys themselves committed any crimes."
“We don’t have to prove all these specific acts,” Drummond said. “We can say you’re a part of a larger scheme."
The Bundy sons made a mistake in occupying a federally owned wildlife preserve - but that offense does not justify the killing of Levoy Fenicom and the attempt to kill Ryan C. Bundy, Shawna Cox, and Victoria Sharp, age 18, immediately after killing Levoy. Nor does it justify sending the Bundy brothers and others to federal prison for decades. The Shawna Cox cell phone video released by the FBI indicates gun shots being fired into the truck where the three people were inside immediately after Fenicom was killed.
Also here is an interesting piece of information on the shooters who were present at the killing of Levoy Fenicom:
See:
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/03/oregon_standoff_fbi_agents_und.html
"Investigators gave no details to explain why the one FBI agent, a member of the Hostage Rescue Team, wouldn't report the two shots. They also didn't indicate what his four colleagues did to warrant investigation other than saying it was related to conduct after the shooting."
The Cox video records sounds of shots being fired immediately after Levoy Fenicom got out of his truck. Though Fenicom apparently was not hit by these shots, the FBI agent, if he was the one who fired the shots, did fire in the direction of Fenicom. Fenicom as killed a few seconds later, apparently by the Oregon State Police.
See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostage_Rescue_Team
This site says of the FBI Hostage Rescue Team that "Some higher-profile cases include the Waco siege; Ruby Ridge.....................and the January 29, 2016 confrontation with militants involved in the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge." This is a little misleading since there was no confrontation between the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and the Bundy people at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. And "confrontation" implies resistance by the Bundy people or even a gun fight. At the killing of Fenicom on U.S. Highway 395 between the Wildlife Refuge and the town of John Day, there was no armed resistance by the Bundy people to the police or FBI and so the "confrontation" was one sided.
The FBI Hostage Rescue Team gained fame from being involved at Ruby Ridge near the end of the George H.W. Bush regime and at the Waco massacre during the reign of Bill Clinton.
At Ruby Ridge in Northern Idaho after Randy Weaver was charged with selling a sawed off shotgun to a federal agent, U.S. Marshals came after him. On the Weaver property the Marshals killed one of the Weaver dogs and then the boy Sammy Weaver fired in their direction. His friend Kevin Harris also fired at the intruders and one U.S. Marshal was killed. Sammy Weaver was killed Then the FBI Hostage Rescue Team was called in to take over. An FBI sniper shot Randy Weaver and killed his wife Vicki, while she was holding her baby. Randy Weaver survived and was tried in federal court.
"An Idaho jury found him innocent of almost all charges and ruled that Kevin Harris’s shooting of the U.S. marshal was self-defense. Federal Judge Edward Lodge condemned the FBI and issued a lengthy list detailing the Justice Department’s and FBI’s misconduct, fabrication of evidence, and refusals to obey court orders."
Waco was a larger scale "confrontation" which began with a raid on the Branch Davidians by the BATF, who were not successful in overpowering the Davidians.. The FBI took over, which included the Hostage Rescue Team, and in the end most of the Davidians were killed, in a fire and by being shot.