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FBI informant, Ryan
Bundy’s wife and David
Fry’s psychologist testify
By CONRAD WILSON
and BRYAN M. VANCE
Oregon Public Broadcasting
Jurors in the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge
trial
heard
testimony
Tuesday from an FBI infor-
mant, a psychologist with
knowledge of David Fry’s
mental health and a husband
question his wife under oath.
Terri Linnell said she
served as an FBI informant
during the occupation. She
testiied for the defense that
she was recruited by the
agency to visit the refuge
and was in Harney County
from Jan. 12-23. Linnell
described her efforts to
prevent the bribery of politi-
cians and her role in protests
in support of protecting the
U.S. Constitution and Bill
of Rights as reasons for her
recruitment.
During her time at the
refuge, FBI agents often
asked her about occupiers
Ammon and Ryan Bundy,
Blaine Cooper, Joseph
O’Shaughnessy,
Ryan
Payne, Jon Ritzheimer and
Pete Santilli.
“I was asked about those
people every time I called,”
Linnell said under cross
examination by prosecutors.
She said she continued to
ile reports even after she
left the refuge on Jan. 26,
outlining what she described
as the occupants’ security
shifts.
Linnell testiied that she
never witnessed any illegal
activity during her time at the
refuge, and that drugs and
alcohol were not allowed.
She also testiied that she
never witnessed defendants
David Fry, Shawna Cox or
Neil Wampler in possession
of irearms.
During her time at the
refuge, Linnell worked as a
cook. “Everyone was told to
pitch in,” she said.
She also described Cox’s
role as more of an admin-
istrative assistant to the
occupation leadership than
active participant.
“I wouldn’t call her one
of the leaders,” Linnell said.
During cross exam-
ination, Assistant U.S.
Secretary of state candidates lay out positions
Avakian, Richardson joined by third-party candidates in forum
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE
Capital Bureau
Attorney Geoffrey Barrow
asked Linnell about a Jan.
14 report in which she
apparently told the FBI that
there was talk among the
occupiers of taking over
another federal building in
Burns, Oregon.
Linnell testiied that she
reviewed the reports that she
had iled with the FBI but
had no recollection of the
report Barrow mentioned.
Barrow also asked about a
Jan. 19 report Linnell made
in which she described the
fact that there were children
at the refuge and that she
was uncomfortable with
that. In that report, she also
said that people involved in
the sovereign citizen move-
ment were also at the refuge
and that it was causing some
concern.
Jurors witnessed a
unusual courtroom moment
Tuesday when defendant
Ryan Bundy, who is repre-
senting himself, questioned
his wife, Angie Bundy.
“Missing you,” she said
in response to his opening
line of questioning. She
described her husband as
a wonderful husband and
father.
“I could cite things all
day long that he does for
other people,” she testiied.
Angie Bundy said Ryan
Bundy left their home in
Nevada for Harney County
without a coat or warm
clothes.
“You told me you’d be
home Monday at the latest,”
she told him.
Finally, jurors also heard
Michelle Guyton, a clinical
psychologist who testiied
about defendant David Fry’s
mental health problems.
Fry was the last occupier
to surrender, and thousands
of people listened to his
inal emotionally charged
standoff with federal agents.
Guyton testiied that she
had diagnosed Fry with
schizotypal
personality
disorder. She described his
condition as being typiied
by erratic behavior, difi-
culty forming long-term
friendships and an overall
feeling of anxiety and lack
of trust.
ALOHA — In a race that’s
become largely a heated
back-and-forth between the
Democrat and Republican
candidates, the frontrunners
in the race for secretary of
state were joined Monday by
two third-party candidates
at a meeting hosted by the
Washington County Public
Affairs Forum.
Democrat Brad Avakian,
the state’s labor commis-
sioner, and Republican
Dennis Richardson, a former
state legislator, are competing
to be the state’s top auditor
and elections oficer, as are
Paciic Green Party Candi-
date Alan Zundel, of Eugene,
and Libertarian candidate
Sharon Durbin, a former
Forest Grove Planning
Commissioner.
In an opening statement,
Avakian said that, as labor
commissioner, a position he
has held since 2008, he had
turned “values into action,”
laying out plans to close the
wage disparity between men
and women and to promote
workforce
development
Avakian
Richardson
through modern shop classes
for high schoolers.
As secretary of state,
Avakian said, he’d promote
same-day voter registration,
inspire Oregonians to partici-
pate in elections, “break down
barriers” for potential voters
to register and vote, and
cause Oregon to be a “global
leader in the ight against
climate change” through the
secretary of state’s position
on the State Land Board.
The board oversees lands
in the state’s ownership that
are managed for the inancial
beneit of Oregon’s public
schools through the Common
School Fund.
Dennis
Richardson,
the Republican, touted his
willingness to work across
the aisle in the legislature in
2011, when he was selected
to be co-chair of the Ways
and Means Committee.
“It’s already here.”
The authors of the study,
published online in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences, say
it’s the irst to try to quantify
how much human-caused
climate change has increased
wildires in Western forests.
Some other factors that
had to be considered as
contributing to the increase,
the report said, included a
legacy of ire suppression
in the West, natural climate
variability, and human
settlement.
The study found that
longer and hotter dry spells
are causing Western forests
to dry out and become more
susceptible to wildires.
Speciically, researchers
said, spring and summer
temperatures have warmed
by 2 to 2.5 degrees since
1950. Researchers said that
warming accounts for 55
percent of what they call
“fuel aridity” from 1979 to
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A
new study of Western forest
ires conirms what is already
apparent — wildire seasons
are getting longer and more
destructive.
But researchers with the
University of Idaho and
Columbia University also
say humans are to blame.
The study made public
Monday says human-caused
global warming contributed
an additional 16,000 square
miles of burned forests from
1984 to 2015.
Researchers say the
16,000 square miles repre-
sent half of the forest areas
that burned over the last
three decades.
“We’re no longer waiting
for human-caused climate
change to leave its inger-
print on wildire across the
western U.S.,” John Abatzo-
glou, the study’s lead author
and an associate professor of
geography at the University
of Idaho, said in a statement.
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“This knowledge will
allow us to make more
educated ire and land
management decisions,” he
said.
One of those deci-
sion-makers
is
Idaho
Forester David Groeschl,
who said the report could
offer some help in the future.
“We know that our ire
season is getting longer,”
Groeschl said. “We know
that we’re seeing more and
longer ires, and we know
that we have increasing fuels
out there as well.”
The fuel aridity was
particularly bad in Idaho in
2015 when extended heat
and drought left northern
Idaho forests parched and
in the worst condition since
1926, oficials said.
NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
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Medford
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2015. The study attributed
the other 45 percent to
natural climate variations.
The study found that
since 2000 there’s been a 75
percent increase in forested
lands with elevated aridity
and nine more days each year
with dry forests especially
susceptible to wildires.
“Anthropogenic climate
change has emerged as a
driver of increased forest ire
activity,” the report says.
Park
Williams
of
Columbia
University’s
Lamont-Doherty
Earth
Observatory, and a co-au-
thor of the study, said the
report provides a better
understanding of the effects
human-caused
global
warming has on Western
forests.
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“We worked together,
in a very dificult time, and
passed the education budget
irst, instead of making it a
political football at the very
end of the session,” Rich-
ardson said.
Richardson, a 2014 guber-
natorial candidate who lost
to John Kitzhaber, a fourth-
term Democrat who later
resigned after allegations of
inluence-peddling surfaced,
also claimed that he brought
forward evidence of corrup-
tion.
“I brought forward the
corruption I felt was rampant
in the governor’s ofice,”
Richardson said. “It ulti-
mately led to investigations
that led to (Kitzhaber’s) resig-
nation after the election.”
He criticized the state for
not auditing the failed health
insurance exchange, Cover
Oregon, and the Columbia
River Crossing, the never-re-
alized bridge project across
the Columbia River and the
state’s millions of dollars
in “suspicious” Business
Energy Tax Credits.
Durbin, the Libertarian
candidate and an attorney, is
running because the job of
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secretary of state has become
too “politicized,” saying the
ofice should be “ministe-
rial.”
She said the main priorities
of the ofice should include
running elections, assisting
corporations, auditing state
agencies and providing
records to the public. She
said Oregon has “too many
rules” for corporations, citing
her experience working for
the Arizona Department of
Revenue.
“The entire purpose of the
secretary of state is to keep
government moving forward
on a fair and even scale,”
Durbin said.
She also said the ofice
should be run by someone
who will not favor “pet proj-
ects” or party loyalties. She
railed against the Columbia
River Crossing and the abuse
and neglect of children in
Oregon’s foster care system.
Zundel, the Paciic Green
Party candidate and a coun-
selor and former political
scientist, said he is running
to advocate for a rank-choice
voting system, which allows
voters to rank candidates in
order of preference rather
than choosing a single candi-
date.
Study: Human-caused warming burns more Western forests
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