{"id":574357,"date":"2021-06-25T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574357"},"modified":"2021-06-25T20:50:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T00:50:12","slug":"top-gop-senator-again-calls-on-biden-to-withdraw-blm-nominee-following-report-she-did-not-cooperate-with-authorities-investigating-eco-terrorism-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-gop-senator-again-calls-on-biden-to-withdraw-blm-nominee-following-report-she-did-not-cooperate-with-authorities-investigating-eco-terrorism-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Top GOP Senator Again Calls On Biden To Withdraw BLM Nominee Following Report She Did Not Cooperate With Authorities Investigating \u2018Eco-Terrorism\u2019 Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">44<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-gop-senator-again-calls-on-biden-to-withdraw-blm-nominee-following-report-she-did-not-cooperate-with-authorities-investigating-eco-terrorism-incident%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=574357&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><ul>\n<li><strong>Republican Sen. John Barrasso again called on President Joe Biden to revoke his nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management on Friday over her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking incident.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>E&#038;E News reported Friday that the nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, was an early target in the case and that she didn\u2019t initially cooperate with federal law enforcement officials investigating the incident, according to an unidentified former official involved in the investigation.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cThe only reasons that Tracy Stone-Manning became a cooperator, if you want to call it that, is because she was caught,\u201d the former law enforcement official told E&#038;E News.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Barrasso told the DCNF that E&#038;E News\u2019 report proves that Stone-Manning lied to his committee about her involvement in the incident.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A top-ranking Senate Republican renewed his call for President Joe Biden to revoke his nominee to lead the Bureau of Land Management following a report Friday that the nominee did not initially cooperate with law enforcement officials investigating a 1989 tree spiking incident she was involved in.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee, Tracy Stone-Manning, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/tracy-stone-manning-tree-spiking-bureau-land-management\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">received<\/a> legal immunity to testify in a 1993 criminal trial that she sent an anonymous and threatening letter to the Forest Service on behalf of her former roommate and friend four years prior warning that a local forest had been sabotaged with tree spikes, a known eco-terrorism tactic. Stone-Manning told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in writing she has never been the target of a federal criminal investigation, and that her testimony in the case helped land the \u201cresponsible individual\u201d behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/eenewspm\/2021\/06\/25\/stories\/1063735885?utm_campaign=edition&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_source=eenews%3Aeenewspm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">E&#038;E News<\/a> reported Friday that an unidentified retired federal law enforcement official who investigated the tree-spiking incident said Stone-Manning was considered a target of the investigation during its early stages and that her initial refusal to cooperate with law enforcement officials set the investigation back by many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis investigator has confirmed what I have been saying. Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists who had booby trapped trees with metal spikes. She mailed the threatening letter for them and she was part of the cover up. She did not cooperate with investigators until she was caught,\u201d Republican Sen. John Barrasso of Wyoming told the Daily Caller News Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracy Stone-Manning lied to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee by claiming the tree spiking was \u2018alleged\u2019 and that she was never investigated. Now, we have confirmation that neither of those things are true,\u201d Barrasso, the ranking member of the committee, added. \u201cPresident Biden must withdraw her nomination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barrasso first called for Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination to be withdrawn on June 17 for intentionally deceiving his committee about her involvement in the case. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/john-barrasso-tracy-stone-manning-biden-withdraw-nomination\/\">(RELATED: Top GOP Senator Calls On Biden To Withdraw Nominee For \u2018Intentionally\u2019 Deceiving Committee About Involvement In \u2018Eco-Terrorism\u2019 Case)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The unidentified former law enforcement official who spoke with E&#038;E News told the outlet that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/18\/bob-abbey-tracy-stone-manning-disqualify\/\">Stone-Manning<\/a> \u201cabsolutely refused to do anything\u201d to advance the investigation during its early stages in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>The former federal investigator told the outlet that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/24\/tracy-stone-manning-bureau-of-land-management-joe-biden\/\">Stone-Manning<\/a> only cooperated with authorities years later after they learned from the ex-girlfriend of one of the people responsible for spiking the trees that Stone-Manning had sent the threatening letter to the Forest Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only reasons that Tracy Stone-Manning became a cooperator, if you want to call it that, is because she was caught,\u201d the former law enforcement official told E&#038;E News.<\/p>\n<p>The DCNF has not independently confirmed E&#038;E News\u2019 reporting. A former federal law enforcement official who was involved in the tree spiking investigation declined to comment when reached by phone Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7212012\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7212012\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7212012 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter.jpg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter.jpg 649w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter-132x120.jpg 132w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter-620x565-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter-768x700-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter-1536x1401-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Stone-Manning-letter-2048x1868-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 649px) 100vw, 649px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7212012\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The anonymous letter Tracy Stone-Manning told a federal court she sent to the Forest Service in 1989 on behalf of John Blount. (Screenshot)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tree spiking, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/local\/1990\/03\/05\/tree-spiking-an-eco-terrorist-tactic\/a400944c-a3a0-4c03-ab99-afada6f44e7a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Washington Post<\/a>\u00a0and other\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/news\/local\/counties\/orange-county\/article212658729.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">news outlets<\/a> have described as an \u201ceco-terrorism\u201d tactic, is a form of sabotage in which metal spikes are nailed into trees to make them unsafe to log. If gone unnoticed, tree spikes can cause serious injuries for workers, such as when a 23-year-old mill worker in California had his jaw cut in half in 1987 when his saw exploded upon striking an unnoticed tree spike.<\/p>\n<p>The DCNF previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/11\/tracy-stone-manning-tree-spiking-bureau-land-management\/\">reported<\/a> that numerous news reports, accounts of federal law enforcement officials and statements from Stone-Manning herself at the time of the incident and subsequent criminal trial strongly suggest that she was a target of the federal government\u2019s investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.umt.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=9226&#038;context=studentnewspaper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Montana Kaimin<\/a> reported in October 1989 that Stone-Manning was among the seven individuals who were served with subpoenas and forced to provide fingerprints, palm prints, handwriting samples and hair samples to a federal grand jury investigating the matter.<\/p>\n<p>A Forest Service law enforcement official confirmed to the Kaimin at the time that the subpoenas were issued as a result of an investigation into the tree spiking incident.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning herself was quoted in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1314&#038;dat=19900805&#038;id=3tRYAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=hfADAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=7080,2581399\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1990 news article<\/a> expressing her anger at the \u201cdegrading\u201d experience the FBI subjected her to during their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was degrading. It changed my awareness of the power of the government,\u201d Stone-Manning said. \u201cYes, this was happening to me and not someone in Panama. And, yes, the government does do bad things sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning also told a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/350800366\/\">local news outlet<\/a>\u00a0in 1993 that she could have been charged with conspiracy in the matter had she not cooperated with federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning has provided differing accounts of her involvement in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>She told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newspapers.com\/image\/350874240\/?terms=%22stone-manning%22&#038;match=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Missoulian<\/a> in May 1993 she felt safe enough to inform federal authorities that she mailed the threatening letter to the Forest Service on behalf of John Blount, one of the individuals responsible for spiking the trees, after reading a newspaper account of his arrest in February that year.<\/p>\n<p>Stone-Manning told the outlet she retyped the letter because my fingerprints were all over the original and I was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I really feel, though, is that I reported a crime, although anonymously,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2013 Stone-Manning said she was unsolicitedly contacted by Blount\u2019s ex-girlfriend in 1993, who told her Blount was soon to be released from jail due to an unrelated domestic abuse matter. Stone-Manning said the ex-girlfriend told her that Blount would remain imprisoned if Stone-Manning testified about his involvement in the tree spiking incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe knew everything about the tree-spiking story and she knew if she told everything that could keep him in jail,\u201d Stone-Manning said in 2013, according to the Missoulian. \u201cShe asked if I would testify, and I said yes, and he went to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither version of events Stone-Manning presented to the media align completely with the timeline presented in a federal prosecutor\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/stone-manning-subpoena.pdf\">pre-trial memo<\/a> in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor wrote in the memo that federal authorities were first informed that Stone-Manning sent the threatening letter after being contacted by Blount\u2019s ex-girlfriend in December 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Republican senators have accused Stone-Manning of providing false answers to the committee in regards to her involvement in the tree spiking incident and called for her nomination to serve as the director of the Bureau of Land Management to be revoked.<\/p>\n<p>However, the White House has remained supportive of her nomination amid the blowback.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTracy Stone-Manning is a dedicated public servant who has years of experience and a proven track record of finding solutions and common ground when it comes to our public lands and waters,\u201d the White House said in a statement Tuesday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/white-house-backs-tracy-stone-manning-gop-nomination-withdrawn\">Fox News<\/a>. \u201cShe is exceptionally qualified to be the next Director of the Bureau of Land Management.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradonewsline.com\/2021\/06\/23\/murkowski-to-oppose-stone-manning-nomination-while-tester-works-to-keep-support-among-dems\/\">vote<\/a> for Stone-Manning\u2019s nomination has not yet been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Sen. 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