Posted on 11/23/2011 4:39:53 PM PST by neverdem
Maybe this is why the indictment was sealed.
At the height of public outrage over Attorney General Eric Holder’s involvement in the “Fast and Furious” gun-walking scandal, the grand jury indictment issued for the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was suddenly sealed. Now, thanks to an astonishing story from Jerry Seper from the Washington Times, we have an idea why it was so important to get that indictment out of the public eye.
According to Seper’s leaks from the sealed document, Agent Terry’s killers were actively hunting Border Patrol agents… and two of their AK-47s came courtesy of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms:
Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show.
A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry says the Mexican nationals were “patrolling” the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to “intentionally and forcibly assault” Border Patrol agents.
At least two of the Mexicans carried their assault rifles “at the ready position,” one of several details about the attack showing that Mexican smugglers are becoming more aggressive on the U.S. side of the border.
According to the indictment, the Mexicans were “patrolling the area in single-file formation” a dozen miles northwest of the border town of Nogales and — in the darkness of the Arizona night — opened fire on four Border Patrol agents after the agents identified themselves in Spanish as police officers.
(Emphasis mine.) The indictment goes on to confirm that even though the Border Patrol agents saw the Mexicans were armed with rifles, they initially engaged with “less than lethal” beanbag rounds. The resulting hail of fast and furious bullets killed Marine veteran and Border Patrol agent Terry. As reported by ABC News back in March, the Border Patrol initially tried to deny that non-lethal weapons were used in the encounter:
"From the very beginning, at the funeral home when they spoke to us face to face, the Border Patrol said there were no bean bags shot. That's what they told us," Brian's stepmother, Carolyn Terry, said in an interview. "They told us that when we were out in Tucson for his memorial. There were no bean bags shot. And what's the first thing on these reports? The guys shot bean bags."
I believe officials are still “declining to discuss” whose idea it was to put beanbag guns in the hands of those Border Patrol agents while border-jumping kill squads hunted them with AK-47s. Shawn Moran of the National Border Patrol Council, who has served as a Border Patrol agent, said “field agents have been ‘strong-armed’ by the agency’s leadership to use nonlethal weapons.” The agents were also packing sidearms, which is still a losing proposition against five assault rifles.
Moran also noted that the gun discipline of the Mexican kill team “probably meant they had some level of military training.” This is what the Border Patrol is up against:
More than 250 incursions by Mexican military personnel into the United States have been documented over the past several years.
The Border Patrol has warned agents in Arizona that many of the intruders were “trained to escape, evade and counter-ambush” if detected. The agency cautioned agents to keep “a low profile,” to use “cover and concealment” in approaching the Mexican units, to employ “shadows and camouflage” to conceal themselves and to “stay as quiet as possible.”
Several of the incursions occurred in the same area where Terry was killed, including a 2005 incident in which two agents were shot and wounded by assailants dressed in black commando-type clothing in what law-enforcement authorities said was a planned ambush. More than 50 rounds were fired at the agents after they spotted the suspected gunmen.
When confronted with these details, “The U.S. attorney’s office in San Diego, which is prosecuting the case, would confirm only that it was sealed. Also sealed was the judge’s reason for sealing the case.” Everything’s all nice and sealed.
Perhaps Congress should ask Eric Holder if he knows that Border Patrol agents are being stalked by death squads with a taste for the kind of guns Fast and Furious pushed across the border. It’s probably all laid out in another memo Holder didn’t read.
POTUS armed drug-dealers, who then hunted our cops and then killed our cops.
Pre-meditated, agenda-driven murder (it didn’t matter who).
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Has anyone made a parody commercial of Obama giving guns to the narco gangs??
“We’re just giving them away folks, come on down for the give away of a life time.... habla espaniol!”
LOL! Combine that with a trial to remove Holder in the Senate after Holder's impeachment in the House!
I believe Issa and Grassley are playing for keeps about Holder. Many of his underlings are liable for criminal prosecution while Holder feigns ignorance. I'll be surprised if they don't sing when faced with the prospect of serious jail time, but that's a matter for another administration.
true.
happy thanksgiving ‘to all of us who are still allowed to live’ PING
Along with everyone else involved in Fast and Furious, aka Gunwalker. From the BATFE, DEA, FBI, DHS, and DOJ - anyone and all. Every stinking one is legally responsible and if they were plain ole citzens, gang-bangers, Quicki-Mart robbers, or the Mafia, they sure as hell would be indicted and locked up - like yesterday as 'Domestic Terrorists'.
This includes Barry O'Bummer. Gunwalker was their His & Holder's 'under the radar gun control plan' that Barry told the Brady Bunch about. That is as plain to see as Moose-hell's big butt in a Bikini.
They ALL conspired against U.S. Law and attempted to usurp the Constitution. But bad for them someone got MURDERED in their FUBAR plan. That someone being Patriot and former Marine, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry!
I'm mad as hell and spittin' nails!
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Thanks.
Worse Than Gunwalker? State Dept. Allegedly Sold Guns to ZetasPhil Jordan, a former CIA operative and one-time leader of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center, claims that the Obama administration is running guns to the violent Zetas cartel through the direct commercial sale of military grade weapons:
Jordan, who served as director of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s El Paso Intelligence Center in 1995, said the Zetas have shipped large amounts of weapons purchased in the Dallas area through El Paso.
(snip)
“They’ve found anti-aircraft weapons and hand grenades from the Vietnam War era,” Plumlee said. Other weapons found include grenade launchers, assault rifles, handguns and military gear including night-vision goggles and body armor.
More about State Department involvement...
— has sources claiming “Obama’s man in the State Department,” (former) Deputy Secretary of State Jim Steinberg, was the State Department operative who helped Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and the Department of Justice Deputy Attorney General David Ogden formulate the strategy that led to the tactics used in Operation Fast and Furious.Steinberg took office as Deputy Secretary of State on January 28, 2009
A little more than two years later, it was announced that Steinberg's time in the Obama State Department was over. From the New York Times, 30 March 2011:
Mrs. Clinton heaped praise on Mr. Steinberg, describing him as an “indispensable” partner. “On every foreign policy challenge, big and small, he has helped formulate our policy and oversee its execution,” she wrote. Mr. Steinberg, she said, played “Oscar to Jack Lew’s Felix,” referring to Jacob J. Lew, her other deputy, who left earlier this year to become Mr. Obama’s budget director.
Want to read even more about State Dept. involvement? ...
Sipsey Street Exclusive: "In at the beginning." The State Department & the Gunwalker Scandal.
Happy Thanksgiving Day bitt.
I got physically ill when reading this.
I pray for his family.
Damn holder and Obama
Holder is a disgrace....even with the unlikely possibility he was unaware this evil was being perpetrated against Americans....his incompetence requires he resign!
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