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struggle4progress

(118,345 posts)
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 03:14 PM Feb 2016

Witness: Insider helped police arrest Bundy group

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/

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Witness: Insider helped police arrest Bundy group (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2016 OP
"Doesn't take a rock star..." HuckleB Feb 2016 #1
Should have read that "EVEN a rock star could figure it out!" Dustlawyer Feb 2016 #2
Or something. HuckleB Feb 2016 #3
It's not rock star science. FSogol Feb 2016 #5
LOL!! 2naSalit Feb 2016 #11
magnets are! snooper2 Feb 2016 #13
and tides. No one knows how they work.... FSogol Feb 2016 #14
He obviously meant: it's not rocket surgery! struggle4progress Feb 2016 #4
Lol! JudyM Feb 2016 #8
TLC ought to sign theses folks up to star in their own reality tv show. Kaleva Feb 2016 #6
Oh, they probably will! HuckleB Feb 2016 #7
Oh god, please...NOOOOOOOO dixiegrrrrl Feb 2016 #20
I caught that too lol! cwydro Feb 2016 #15
How hard is it to imagine an organization made up of ex-military and LE might have informers in dogman Feb 2016 #9
Maybe Cox was the leak? atreides1 Feb 2016 #10
I'm willing to 2naSalit Feb 2016 #12
So what kind of special stupid are you when you mix up 'rocket scientist' with 'rock star'? Rex Feb 2016 #16
They have no grasp of what being watched entails, do they? L. Coyote Feb 2016 #17
They have no idea how the Feds roll... Johnyawl Feb 2016 #18
Hey, maybe the feds called in Ozzy Osbourne to help them strategize. tanyev Feb 2016 #19
There was an informant: Mendocino Feb 2016 #21

dogman

(6,073 posts)
9. How hard is it to imagine an organization made up of ex-military and LE might have informers in
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 03:32 PM
Feb 2016

their midst? Even a rock star could figure that out.

atreides1

(16,093 posts)
10. Maybe Cox was the leak?
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 03:37 PM
Feb 2016

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)
12. I'm willing to
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 03:53 PM
Feb 2016

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.

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
17. They have no grasp of what being watched entails, do they?
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 04:09 PM
Feb 2016

Even I expected the arrests up on the pass between the snowbanks.

Johnyawl

(3,205 posts)
18. They have no idea how the Feds roll...
Tue Feb 2, 2016, 04:28 PM
Feb 2016

...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.
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