BUNKERVILLE STANDOFF:  NEW WOOTEN EMAIL SENT TO DOJ MARCH 9TH, DEFENSE LAWYERS TOLD MARCH 21ST

A court document filed this week by a defense lawyer in Las Vegas gives some details about the emergence of a new memo in the Bunkerville Standoff case from Bureau of Land Management agent Larry Wooten.

The US Attorney's Office in Las Vegas and the Justice Department in Washington both received the memo on March 9th.

On March 21st defense lawyers received a motion from federal prosecutors to file under seal the new memo detailing allegations of improper conduct by federal law enforcement etc. in the Bunkerville case.

Its appears that the feds want to keep the contents of Wooten's new memo secret with Wooten expanding and detailing his original allegations.

"This email, being referred to as The Wooten Email-2, is apparently, as gleaned from the contents of the government's filing , a more detailed and comprehensive document that identifies the persons, and source materials, and additional witnesses, in support of the claims made by BLM SA Wooten in the original Wooten Email, and that the contents of the Wooten Email-2 further develops those claims and accusations"

Court filing by defendant Todd Engel's lawyer this week in Las Vegas

Wooten is  also providing names of additional witnesses who will back up what he said about federal misconduct in the case.

In a recent Facebook posting Ammon Bundy, a key defendant in the case, argued that there should be full disclosure of the new email's content so the public can make its own determination.

But federal prosecutors are arguing that "government employees and others have privacy rights that outweigh public right to access".