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Michael Rollins/KGW and The Associated Press
9:53 a.m. PST February 2, 2016
... Cox said she believes without a doubt that McConnell set them up for the arrests by working with the police. Few people knew that the core leadership of the group would be in two specific vehicles headed to John Day for a meeting with the Grant County sheriff, she said ...
McConnell has not commented directly on Cox's accusations, but posted this on his Facebook page Sunday:
"Folks here's something simple. Google the route from the Malhuer Wildlife Refuge to John Day, Oregon. There is one way there and one way back. The meeting was at 6pm and was public knowledge. Doesn't take a rock star to figure out when we would have been coming through" ...
http://www.abc10.com/story/news/nation/2016/02/02/witness-insider-helped-police-arrest-bundy-group/79699370/
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)What? (I mean, nothing against rock stars, but...)
Dustlawyer
(10,497 posts)It's not rocket science!
HuckleB
(35,773 posts)These people don't seem to have received any education. It's amazing.
FSogol
(45,526 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)FSogol
(45,526 posts)struggle4progress
(118,345 posts)JudyM
(29,277 posts)Kaleva
(36,343 posts)HuckleB
(35,773 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Giving air time to cretins has gone far enough as it is.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)dogman
(6,073 posts)their midst? Even a rock star could figure that out.
atreides1
(16,093 posts)What better way to remove suspicion from yourself, then by pointing the finger at someone else!
And what about the 18 year old woman with her, I don't believe that she was arrested either?
The choice for who might have set them up has at least 3 candidates...including Shawna Cox!
2naSalit
(86,780 posts)speculate that there was at least one "plant" in the mix. I was anticipating that it might have been the O'Shaunesy (sp?) guy, the one who took some of the donated cash and got drunk. He seemed a likely suspect as a plant, to me at least, at the time.
Rex
(65,616 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Even I expected the arrests up on the pass between the snowbanks.
Johnyawl
(3,205 posts)...The FBI almost certainly had their "ASSETS" set up that little meeting in John Day to begin with. The Bundy's had been desperately looking for local support to legitimize their little occupation, and the FBI played into that banking on the egos of the leadership to put their asses in the truck and head on down that isolated road. Road block up ahead, rolling road block behind and pull them over.
The FBI has decades of experience doing this to Mafioso's, drug dealers, and would be jihadists. A bunch of clown cowboys and wanna be militias is easy pickings.
I'm convinced that the last four sitting around that campfire getting stoned are just bait.
tanyev
(42,613 posts)Mendocino
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