Taking a mental excursion...
Perhaps the FBI and DEA let this all come down to expose the BATF and the administration's actions.
Interdepartmental rivalries/.gov.$$$ and all that...
It could happen! /Judy Tenuta
Posted on 12/01/2011 8:16:30 AM PST by jazusamo
From multiple sources come shocking charges of deadly ineptitude and an FBI coverup.
Previously, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death in Peck Canyon, Arizona was described as a chance meeting that led to a firefight: an illegal alien “rip crew” working for the Sinaloa cartel was hoping to find other illegal aliens and to rob them at gunpoint. Instead, they stumbled across a Border Patrol unit and murdered Agent Terry.
Last week, the Washington Times offered a new version of the encounter: they reported that the rip crew was not hunting illegals, but Border Patrol teams — with the intention of engaging them in combat.
Sources now tell PJ Media that neither version of events is accurate: the rip crew was not waiting for a chance encounter with other illegals, nor did the members intend to engage American law enforcement agents.
The rip crew was in Peck Canyon that evening with the intention of stealing money and drugs from a specific shipment of which they had prior knowledge.
Sources claim the Department of Justice has been trying for almost a year to hide the key information — how the rip crew knew the shipment was coming through that night.
Criminal informants (CIs) are a common tool of law enforcement agencies. When agencies apprehend criminals, agencies often reduce or drop charges in exchange for information leading to the arrests of higher-ranking criminals. Earlier this year, reports claimed that Operation Fast and Furious weapons smuggled over the border were actually chosen by an FBI informant, and paid for with money provided by the federal government.
The rip crew knew to be in Peck Canyon that December evening because a CI working for the FBI found out about a smuggling run — from the FBI.
It is not clear if the information was provided intentionally, but a possible motivation for the FBI to provide the information is known to exist: the CI had previously lost a shipment of drugs, and wanted to regain the trust of the cartel with an offering of drugs or money. The other possibility is that the FBI mistakenly allowed the CI to discover the information.
The CI used this information to organize an ambush of the drug convoy. A source tells PJM that the FBI knew from wiretaps that the CI was using their information to set up an ambush.
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) — through its own CIs and communications intercepts — was also aware of the planned assault.
Neither the DEA nor FBI warned Border Patrol about the expected criminal activity.
The federal government will still not reveal if one of the two WASR-10 AK-pattern semi-automatic rifles located near the scene — provided to the Sinaloa cartel via Operation Fast and Furious — was the weapon that put a bullet through Brian Terry’s heart. The existence of a third recovered gun, an SKS carbine, has been disputed by the FBI despite the fact it had been talked about openly in the beginning of the investigation among federal agents.
Multiple sources tell PJM that this third weapon “disappeared” because it was the weapon carried by the FBI CI who ran the rip crew. When it was recovered near the scene of the murder and subsequently traced by the ATF, it traced back to the FBI CI via the gun shop in Texas where it was purchased.
Deconfliction is a major element of high-risk undercover law enforcement work. Undercover agents and informants often cross jurisdictional paths, and deconfliction is the process whereby agencies warn off other agencies so that their assets don’t end up in conflict, putting investigations and lives at risk.
In this case, the FBI and DEA failed to deconflict. Neither agency bothered to warn Border Patrol to keep their BORTAC teams out of Peck Canyon that evening. As a direct result of this FBI and DEA failure — combined with Homeland Security forcing BORTAC units to carry less-lethal beanbag rounds in some of their primary weapons — Brian Terry’s under-armed four-man unit walked into an ambush against a heavily armed rip crew, at least five of whom were carrying rifles.
Brian Terry’s murder was entirely preventable. The incompetence of the DEA and FBI let his Border Patrol unit walk into an ambush. After the ambush, it appears the FBI tampered with evidence to cover up that one of their informants was involved with the murder of a federal agent.
The government has recently sealed the case against the only suspect the FBI chose to keep behind bars.
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Taking a mental excursion...
Perhaps the FBI and DEA let this all come down to expose the BATF and the administration's actions.
Interdepartmental rivalries/.gov.$$$ and all that...
It could happen! /Judy Tenuta
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the good guys from the bad.
Our Justice Department and its offspring need a good overhaul.
PS. It won’t get it from the bunch that’s running it now.
The truly disturbing part is that it’s all too plausible of a possibility.
This story boils down to one thing,,,
Foreign criminals are running military patrols in American territory. Screw you Newt, Screw you Bush, Screw you Obama.
In the last year i have read stories of signs going up warning Americans away from National monuments because they ae defacto controlled by the Mexican insurgents.
I have read of almost permanent MEXICAN Observation Posts on mountaintops well inland that serve to warn smugglers of USBP. (the IR signature and electric signature has to be like a big brass band IF we wanted to interdict them.
They openly run military style patrols dozens of miles inland from the border.
Our republican party is allowing MEXICAN trucks onto US highways now.
In view of all this, which i believe is the number one threat to the nation, co-equal to the economy because it is so intertwined, i REFUSE to vote for anyone who talks of having a heart for the Mexican invasion.
This story boils down to one thing,,,
Foreign criminals are running military patrols in American territory. Screw you Newt, Screw you Bush, Screw you Obama.
In the last year i have read stories of signs going up warning Americans away from National monuments because they ae defacto controlled by the Mexican insurgents.
I have read of almost permanent MEXICAN Observation Posts on mountaintops well inland that serve to warn smugglers of USBP. (the IR signature and electric signature has to be like a big brass band IF we wanted to interdict them.
They openly run military style patrols dozens of miles inland from the border.
Our republican party is allowing MEXICAN trucks onto US highways now.
In view of all this, which i believe is the number one threat to the nation, co-equal to the economy because it is so intertwined, i REFUSE to vote for anyone who talks of having a heart for the Mexican invasion.
philman_36,
Judy Tenuta was married for a while to Emo Phillips.
Love to be a fly on the wall watching that freak show.
Hey, Newt and every other repub.
When the Nazis invaded the USSR, they invaded with about 5.5 million men along an 1800 mile front.
When the Mexicans invaded the USA, they invaded along our 1900 mile front with a force that is admitted to be at least 10 million, and is probably 15-20 million.
You refuse to address it in a way that puts America as sacred, then NO VOTE FROM ME.
Just sayin’
Words fail.
bttt
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Incompetence hardly seems to be the appropriate word choice, given the facts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~
A suspect named Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, who suffered a gunshot wound, was arrested at the scene.
Here is what has been made public to date:
Osorio-Arellanes was charged initially [presumably in mid-December] with illegal entry in a case that is published on PACER, an online database of federal court filings. But that case was terminated when Osorio-Arellanes and several unidentified co-defendants were secretly indicted April 20 for murder by a federal grand jury.
Three weeks later, a judge temporarily unsealed the indictment, which lists co-defendants whose names were blacked out because they had not been apprehended. Since then, the entire case has been invisible. A clerk at the federal court in Tucson confirmed that the file is sealed, including the judge's reason for closing it. Even the docket is hidden from public view, so a search for U.S. vs. Osorio-Arellanes turns up no record of the homicide prosecution.
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Thanks, Mesta.
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