A cesspool of Judicial Corruption

TWENTY-ONE the setup–j.c. harding wired

David had no idea all this intrigue was in progress. It was on Saturday, March 29, 2003, that J.C. show up at David's house. Harding, according to Arlene Olsen, had his marching orders from Gunderson. And his handler, Hilder, backed him up. This was the final visit by Bates and Harding. This was the fourth time that David encountered J.C. Harding. David was cordial and talkative.

At the request of the FBI, in an attempt to obtain evidence against David, Harding wore the body wire. FBI Agent Will Long was on the grass hiding near David's house where he would remain undetected. FBI Agent Long fitted J.C. with the body wire. They designed the whole exercise to entrap David by baiting him to, potentially, make incriminating statements.

After various attempts, J.C. interrupted the taping session by saying he needed to relieve himself. While in the bathroom, he whispered into his cell-phone to Agent Long that he needed instructions to be more specific. But their attempts throughout the conversation failed miserably.

FBI Agent Long had wasted over three hours laying on the cold wet ground in hiding. J.C. tried his best to follow orders to entrap David. He was trying hard but without looking too obvious, he repeatedly asked David during the recorded conversation if he wanted to "blow" (kill) federal officials. David said they were talking "BS" while David was preparing food at the kitchen island. He wasn't listening to much of what J.C. was saying. This was not a serious conversation–David was just being friendly to a departing acquaintance.

When David caught J.C.'s meaning, he instantly responded by saying that he doesn't want to hurt anyone–“I’m going to sue them.”

Here is an excerpt of the body wire–Harding said: “So you’re going to murder them. What are you going to do? What can you do?"

David–"I’m going to sue them."

Harding–"Right." [This is not what Harding was fishing for.]

David: "That’s what I have been doing. That’s the frustrating part is (sic) the only thing we got is the court system–which is so crooked.”

Harding–“Got ya. Hum, so you think you can beat them at their own system?"

David–Yeah.”

Harding: “I want to know something for sure. This is dead serious what I’m asking you this. (sic) You talked to me about this on a couple of occasions. Do you want to do it? Do you not want to do it?"

David–"What?"

Harding: "Your problem with three wise men."

David: "I’m just suing them.” He [David] also said, “You know I haven’t offered anyone money to harm anyone.”

Harding said–“right.”

During the trial the government position was David cleverly detected that Harding was wired and wouldn't repeat the fictitious "previous offers" on the tape. The government wanted to depict David as a cunning, clever and nefarious man on one hand and a total idiot on the other. What sort of legally trained and astute idiot would make an offer to a nearly total stranger to kill three federal officers, including a judge?

David wanted to “use Babylon to fight Babylon,” as presented as part of the Detention Hearing of April 7, 2003. His answer to Harding's question, "So you think you can you beat them?"

David made it perfectly clear that he'll fight these government thugs in their own courts by using their own court system to fight them. Does this sound like the wild ravings of an imbecile?

We believe that Harding and Agent Long later cooked up the story that David made a $10,000 offer to J.C. on the first occasion they had met because the body wire caper flunked. When questioned under oath at David's Trial, Bates and Harding couldn't get straight their stories of how he offered the $10,000. The jurors didn't buy their testimonies. J.C. didn't hold David to the scenario of hiring him as a hit man earlier when wired because it never happened. The alleged $10,000 “Kitchen Counter Offer” to kill Judge Lodge, AUSA Cook and IRS Agent Hines mentioned in the FBI 302 was never mentioned in the conversation recorded on the body wire. Isn't that strange?

Based solely on hearsay conversations with unknown individuals the government indicted David. They did no meaningful investigation of witnesses' credibility, reliability or motivation. Government agents, without even a modicum of skepticism simply took anyone's word as fact. The parade of government witnesses were liars, felons and opportunists. Most defense witnesses were merely responsive to their recollections, with nothing to lose or gain.

Why would the government place so much weight on J.C. Harding's testimony when so consistently under oath he perjured himself? By simply checking his phone and travel records, they could easily have verified his claims. He claimed that he had met with David some fifty times over a long course of time. He testified when questioned by AUSA Agent Michael P. Sullivan, chief prosecutor (Counterterrorism Unit of the U. S. Attorney’s Office) against David:
We talked about my knowledge of guns and that I grew up around guns and shotguns. He [David] wanted to know how extensive my background was, the basics of how I got into it and why I was into it.

[Harding testified that he had worked as a bodyguard, and that David knew him through a friend who was also a bodyguard].

How do you know he knew you through another bodyguard?

They were good friends. They were close friends.

Who is that?

Mark Glover. Him and David–I don’t know how–are very close friends. And I know Mark through doing security work, body guarding.

Mark Glover (in his 40s–a tall, good looking black male) teaches at California University (an online college) and runs a limo service. He brags about being the driver for Anthony Hilder and Barbara Streisand. David had never before even heard of Glover.

Hilder was the one who sent Glover to pick up David in his "limo" at the Airport. Glover called David before the Granada Forum Meeting in Los Angeles (December 2002) and advised him that the Forum was paying for all of his expenses. He had arranged for a hotel and picked up David at the Airport. Mark drove David to lunch and then to the Orange County Freedom Forum meeting. At the Forum Meeting Hilder's complements went way overboard (sycophant) trying to make a good impression on David. Hilder went so far as to have Glover bring to David's room an exotic dancer, bare to her G-String. She performed her dance. There was no sexual encounter. David gave her a $20 tip and then she left. He had no idea why these people were so engaging. David said, "I was getting the Royal treatment."

He has no memory of Harding from the Granada Forum or the dinner. However, Bates made contact with David at the Forum, and David remembers her. Next day David returned to Idaho.

Sullivan then asked Harding: "Have you worked as a bodyguard?"

"Yes."

"Have you worked with Mr. Glover?"

"Yes."

Harding testified that he became very friendly with David and frequently stayed at his house in Grangeville on the weekends.

Sullivan asked, "During those visits, did Hinkson repeatedly discussed killing Cook, Hines and Lodge. On the occasions that you go back up to Grangeville, would you see Mr. Hinkson?"

"Yes."

"Would you talk to him on the same subject matters of the three federal officers?"

"Extensively."

"Did he mention these things about killing federal officers more than once?"

"Every time we spoke, yes."

"How many times?"

"Fifty."

One would think that the FBI would have wanted to check out J.C.'s testimony for reliability, unless, of course, they participated in a fraud. When would this all have happened? Were there any corroborating witnesses at WaterOz that ever saw or heard of Harding before the December 2002 Granada Forum Meeting in L.A.? How clandestine can we get–no phone calls, no records just Harding's statements. As we'll see later, even John Harding, J.C.'s father, said on the witness stand under oath that his son is a liar.

Although the times of the various events are somewhat confusing, the chronology displays a pattern. Without an indictment, on August 21, 2001, the Feds presented David's case before the Grand Jury.

Then Nancy Cook, in April of 2002, went to the Grand Jury to try to indict David but failed. David sued Cook, Hines and others for $50,000,000 on April 16, 2002. He alleged that Cook and IRS Agent Hines had violated a number of U.S. laws and committed Grand Jury tampering.

He said, "Nancy Cook forged a fraudulent grand jury indictment." David claims that there's was no legal way Nancy Cook could have gotten an indictment, because the Grand Jury's term had ended, and the members were scattered over a large area of Idaho. David suggests that we do an audit of their travel receipts etc. If this is true, Nancy Cook committed a felony, and others suborned her felony. The grand jury adjourned permanently in April signing a "No Bill." After David sued Cook (and Hines), Cook galvanized into action and supposedly brought together the same grand jury on July 17, 2002, for one final session (at which time she got her indictment).

Dave remembers that attorney Mahaffey told him that Cook had offered to dismiss the criminal indictment if he would drop the civil suit against her and Hines. Later, Cook told Attorney Mahaffey that before the Raid she did not have enough information to prosecute David, but after the Raid on November 21st she did.

Just a couple of weeks later, the Granada Forum episode began. The Gunderson/Hilder plan, using Annie Bates and J.C. Harding to entrap David, was set into action. But there was plenty of time to prepare Harding's testimony for David's trial and be sure he got it right.

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