ATF agents called off first planned raid of Malinowski home after they learned he was out of town. New report: ATF postponed raid from March 12 to March 19 to ensure Malinowski was home asleep.
Bullets Before Sunrise: The execution of Bryan Malinowski. 'They wanted him there, and they wanted him there bad,’ Wyoming Representative Harriet Hageman said in hearing.
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By Jay C. Grelen, Arkansas Moniteur
ATF agents who were suited up in SWAT gear gathered before dawn in a Walmart parking lot on March 12 to raid Bryan Malinowski’s house, but called it off when they learned he was out of town on business, members of Congress said Wednesday in a subcommittee hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington.
“In other words, they wanted him there, and they wanted him there bad,” said Wyoming Representative Harriet Hageman.
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Little Rock attorney Bud Cummins, who represents the widow of Bryan Malinowski, was among four people who Representative Jim Jordan summoned to testify today. Jordan, a Republican from Ohio, is chairman of the Judiciary Committee.
“Isn’t it true that a week before (the raid on Malinowski’s house) these same agents were there at the Walmart parking lot close by the Malinowski’s home (and were) going to go execute the search warrant, and then decided not to because Bryan Malinowski wasn’t home?” Mr. Jordan asked Mr. Cummins. “Why was it so critical that he be home?”
“I don’t know, Mr. Chairman,” Mr. Cummins responded “In fact, they could have waited until nobody was home. It was a search warrant. … If they wanted to kick the door down, they could have come at noon and kicked the door down when Maer and Bryan were both gone.”
“And searched and found whatever they were looking for,” Mr. Jordan said. “And then to add insult to injury, the way they treated his spouse, Mrs. Malinowski … the way they treated her … her spouse has just been shot … that to me is unbelievable, what she had to go through.”
“It makes me very angry,” said Mr. Cummins, a former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
“It should make all of us angry,” Mr. Jordan said.