OPB: GOP Lawmakers Were Key Players in Armed Refuge Occupation

"If we're getting close (to a resolution" and you embolden Bundy by your presence and this runs on for weeks and months, it will be awful in this community."

That was Harney County Judge Steven Grasty captured on a tape obtained by OPB. He was addressing a group of lawmakers from Nevada, Oregon, and Washington who had shown up to talk about the armed standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

The occupation was a week old at that point.

It would go on for nearly five more weeks.

In his reporting, Sepulvado determines that "the list was the latest step in an ongoing and organized campaign by these lawmakers, essentially the political arm of the militant movement, to make a once-radical political cause part of the mainstream."

Read the full report here.