Well... I think they all have something to hide. They all 'knew'. Our elected officials don't live in political vacuums. They all work together.
They knew, the WH knew, the Mexican Government knew, their Presidente knew.
The DEA and ATF were on opposite undercover cartel operations, and they participated in Shootout at the OK Corral, but the unlucky Border Patrol Agents got caught in the crossfire. The undercover guys couldn't 'blow' their cover, so they had to shoot. They were using weapons that they were forcing US Dealers to sell to 'mules' to supply them to the cartels.
The plan is not to 'close' the border, but to make it impassable but to the cartels, and those that can provide enough bribe money. The US 'officials' get a cut of the take. Nothing will cross the border without a bribe and the permission of both the cartels and our 'rulers'. The Administration has decided to use Arizona (rather than Texas, because Texans shoot people) as their 'control corridor', and you know the rest of the story.
You're talking about BP Agent Brian Terry. These new revelations about ICE Agent Jaime Zapata do beg the question; was BP Agent Brian Terry set up for some reason?
There is reason to believe that Agent Terry's BORTAC team knew nothing about the rip crew and the rip crew knew nothing in advance about Agent Terry's team.
FBI Criminal Informant Complicit in Brian Terry’s Death (PJM Exclusive)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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.