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President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Bureau of Land Management was involved in a 1989 ecoterrorist threat, avoiding prison only after agreeing to testify against another terrorist.
The Daily Caller reveals Tracy Stone-Manning was involved in a claimed 1989 “tree-spiking” incident, in which ecoterrorists concealed metal spikes in trees to make chainsaws explode. The aim of “tree-spiking” is to stop logging by maiming or killing loggers.
Court documents reveal in 1989 Stone-Manning mailed an anonymous threat to the U.S. Forest Service on behalf on ecoterrorist John P. Blount. Stone-Manning claimed trees in an Idaho forest had been sabotaged with spikes, warned loggers would be seriously injured or killed if they attempted to cut down trees, and appeared to also threaten law enforcement.
Stone-Manning’s letter claimed a team of eleven ecoterrorists spent nine days sabotaging trees in an Idaho forest slated for sale to loggers. She claimed “we unloaded a total of five hundred pounds of spikes measuring 8 to 10 inches in length” to potentially kill loggers.
“You bastards go in there anyway and a lot of people could get hurt,” Stone-Manning threatened.
She also appears to have threatened law enforcement, offering to buy the trees from loggers for $1 “but you would have to find me first and that could be your WORST nightmare.”
She signed the letter under the pseudonym “George Hayduke.”
Stone-Manning was immediately a suspect. Within a month federal investigators asked her to give handwriting and hair samples to a federal grand jury. When Blount was arrested in 1993 on domestic violence charges and his girlfriend informed police of Stone-Manning’s criminal activity, Stone-Manning finally admitted to authorities she mailed the threat, but claimed she did so at Blount’s direction.
Tree-spiking was made a federal felony in 1988 after a spiked tree caused a 12-foot-long saw to explode, nearly decapitating a sawmill worker.
Facing prosecution for her role in terrorism Stone-Manning cut a deal to receive legal immunity in exchange for her testimony. Blount received 17 years in prison.
Stone-Manning admitted retyping the threat letter “because my fingerprints were all over the original and I was scared.” She claims she never intended for anyone to be hurt, even though she waited four years until she herself faced violence, to admit to her role.
“Stone-Manning said she could have been charged with conspiracy because she mailed the letter for Blount, were it not for her agreement with the U.S. attorney,” the Missoula, Montana Missoulian newspaper reported May 21, 1993, adding “will be granted use immunity for the statements which she makes to the degree that it may incriminate her.”
In May Stone-Manning testified in writing to the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee that she had never been the target of a federal investigation.
Many are wondering why Biden would nominate an eco-terrorist to head a federal agency.
“Tracy Stone-Manning collaborated with eco-terrorists,” Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Sen. John Barrasso tells The Daily Caller. “She worked with extreme environmental activists who spiked trees, threatening the lives and livelihoods of loggers.”
Despite her eco-terrorist activity, Montana Governor Steve Bullock named her director of the state’s Department of Environmental Quality. She is currently a senior adviser to the National Wildlife Federation.
Michael Brigham
Michael Brigham has written for American Action News since the summer of 2019. His areas of expertise include foreign affairs, government, and politics, but regardless of the subject matter, he has a nose and an insatiable appetite for news. In his free time, he enjoys reading nonfiction, watching a mix of comedies and true crime documentaries, and spending time away from the swamp hiking in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Yep, the inmates are truly running the asylum!
The commiecrats can pick real winners
Ah, I see. The woman betrays her cohort, while actually doing the damage, and goes free, while he does big time. Sounds like gynocentric justice.
Biden’s administration just keeps getting worse with every nominee and appointed individual.
If you’re a dem long enough, you bound to have something dastardly in your past or present. That’s just the way they’re programmed.
Biden isn’t picking or nomination any of these people……he’s a puppet, and Obama and Jarret are pulling the strings…….If you asked him to name any 5 people he nominated for positions in his Cabinet……..he couldn’t do it, without somebody sticking a note card in his hand.
People deserve what they vote for.
Trouble is this time we did not get what we voted for. The criminals faked the vote count and we ended up with crimanals running the show instead of Trump the real winner !!!
EACH AND EVERY DAY biden/harris COMMUNIST REGIME DOES SOMETHING VERY BAD FOR AMERICA, THIS APPOINTEE GOES RIGHT ALONG WITH THEIR ABSOLUTE MADNESS!!! AMERICA IS DEFINITELY BROKEN, IT TOOK biden/harris LESS THAN 30 DAY’S FOR THE DECLINE TO BEGIN, NOW IT’S BEEN 120 OR SO DAY’S AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE!!!🤢🤮🤮
Faux hair sniffing Joe doesn’t have a clue.
Signing whatever in a daze.
Democrats hate your guts, clear enough
Yeah except know who the enemy really is… Bideni is CATHOLIC. R and D mean nothing. It is a thing done by CATHOLIC TRAITORS. Look south for proof…. Invade, dominate, conquer, then eliminate. (Be CATHOLIC “C” or be dead). The ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS are ALL here illegally! Pelosi, ( CATHOLIC “C” traitor) recently said that there are more than 60 million ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS in the USA. Head ’em up. Send ’em ‘home’. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and the wall will never happen. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS will never go ‘home’.
Why did Biden nominate this criminal? Because the Democrat Party is THE party of criminals. They hate Americans and the American way of life, and they want to establish a dictatorship in the country (a dictatorship of the Democrat Party, of course). The party should be outlawed as a threat to national security.
What’s next? A convicted pedophile as head of the Department of Health and Human Services?
Why am I not surprised. Another wacko Demo doing what they do best. Lie,cheat,betray, and deflect. No wonder Biden wants her. Naw, he just wants another target for his “affections”. Nuff’said.
R and D mean nothing. It is a thing done by CATHOLIC TRAITORS. Look south for proof…. Invade, dominate, conquer, then eliminate. (Be CATHOLIC “C” or be dead). The ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS are ALL here illegally! Pelosi, ( CATHOLIC “C” traitor) recently said that there are more than 60 million ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS in the USA. Head ’em up. Send ’em ‘home’. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and the wall will never happen. Vote for ANY CATHOLIC “C” and the ILLEGAL ALIEN CATHOLIC “C” INVADERS will never go ‘home’.
Paid off steve boy should be investigated, tried, found guilty, wealth confiscated, and hung. That about sums up what should happen to the biden clan and in fact probably all politicians, at least for sure the investigation part.