Prosecutors in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge investigation are calling on a judge to order blogger Gary Hunt to remove sensitive material about the trial’s informants from his website Outpost of Freedom. Hunt joined in the occupation in Oregon last year, but wasn’t convicted. He has posted quotes from some of the FBI’s 130 reports on informants, in which names were redacted, but prosecutors worry that readers would still be possible to discern identities.
Hunt is involved in Operation Mutual Defense, a network of militias and supporters founded by Ryan Payne, one of the refuge occupation’s organizers, says The Seattle Times. Many of the individuals involved in the Malheur occupation were ranchers, who claimed that the government should hand over public lands to cattlemen. Ammon and Ryan Bundy, along with five others, were acquitted of charges in the case.
Hunt chose to ignore an FBI cease-and-desist order he received last week, arguing that the “court’s protective order doesn’t apply to him, but only to the defendants and their legal teams,” says the Times.