Grijalva Requests GAO Report on Threats, Attacks
Last Updated: Saturday, 08 July 2017 06:52
Washington, D.C. – Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) has requested a Government Accountability Office (GAO) study of the scale of recent threats against and attacks on federal land management agency officials ...
Noting that the 2015 armed standoff at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon – in which the Bundy family was also centrally implicated – was just the most visible instance of a more widespread phenomenon, Grijalva writes in part:
Many of the Malheur plotters are affiliated with a broader anti-government movement that, for decades, has targeted federal facilities and employees throughout the Western United States. This movement includes hundreds of militias and other groups violently opposed to federal ownership and management of lands in the West. Broadly speaking, this movement views the federal government as the enemy and does not respect the laws of this country ...
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