BP Agent Brian Terry was not the only Federal agent killed by guns allowed to walk by the ATF-DoJ.
Posted on 06/23/2012 4:06:53 PM PDT by neverdem
The two most important words in the current Obama administration scandal aren’t “Fast” or “Furious.” They are “Brian Terry.”
In December 2010, Brian Terry — a former Marine and police officer turned Border Patrol agent — was working in Arizona, 11 miles from the Mexican border. He was killed in a gunfight with Mexican drug runners, and two of the AK-47s found at the scene were linked to a then-unknown program of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms called “Operation Fast and Furious.”
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The name is perfect, because the president wants you furious — and fast.
He wants you focused on those mean ol’ House Republicans who, according to Department of Justice consultant Robert Raben, are just “doing the bidding of the National Rifle Association.” Obama wants you debating Bush-era gun programs vs. his own, the limits of presidential privilege — anything except the fact that yesterday brought us the highest four-week average of initial jobless claims for the year.
For Team Obama, this story is all about politics.
But for the family of Brian Terry, it’s the story of their son — murdered with guns given to killers by his own government. Yet many mainstream news consumers never heard of it until this week. According to Media Research Center, the first time NBC mentioned the story was last week.
For the Terry family, it has been a year and a half of lies, obfuscation and stonewalling. They just want to know what happened to their son — the kind of son who, before he died on Dec. 14, had already bought and mailed them Christmas gifts.
His brother-in-law tells the rest:
“We buried him not far from the house that he was raised in just prior to Christmas day. The gifts that Brian had picked out with such thought and care began to arrive in the mail that same week. With each delivery, we felt the indescribable pain of Brian’s death.”
Are Democrats like Raben right? Is finding the person responsible for arming Terry’s killers with government-issue guns really merely doing “the bidding of the NRA?” Why the hell isn’t it the “bidding” of the entire Justice Department? Of the whole White House? Instead, Democrats like our own Reps. Stephen Lynch and John Tierney have consistently voted against having Attorney General Eric Holder provide documents that could end this family’s pain. Ranking House Oversight Committee member Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) famously pledged, “I will not rest” until justice is done for the Terry family.
But what did he and every other Democrat on the committee do this week?
They sided with Holder and voted against holding him in contempt.
Tierney demeaned the effort to get the documents as “partisan political theater.” Lynch went even further, offering an amendment calling for a review of the costs of the investigation and complaining that it had dragged on.
“I want to balance out the benefits of this investigation with costs being accrued,” Lynch complained.
“I would remind the member we’re talking about the death of an American border patrol agent,” replied Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.).
“Brian Terry’s family deserves every penny we have spent,” added Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.).
I agree. Lynch does not.
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I have heard references on a couple radio shows that 200 Mexican citizens were killed with Fast & Furious guns. Why is this not more newsworthy?
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/06/fast-and-furious-follow-the-ideology.php
The libs would much rather have everyone talk about someone other than Brian Terry, like for instance, Jerry Sandusky.
This is what totally tees me off, the presence of allegations of the death of Jaime Zapata being constantly ignored, overlooked, and not even mentioned in any of the coverage, even much of it on FR. I don't really know much about the circumstances of Jaime's death/murder at the direction of our very own justice dept/white hut, but I think it's time the country found out. I kind of wonder if Jaime would have been so completely ignored by almost everybody if his name was Darvon or Treyvon instead of Jaime.
Then there was “Project gangwalker” (Not its real name) that was allowing guns to walk to the Chicago gangs. Wonder how many of the steady stream of bodies there are a result of this administration.
I haven’t heard a whisper about aanything going to Chicago.
Sipsey street irregulars on project gangwalker.
http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2011/09/codrea-exclusive-project-gangwalker.html
See tagline.
Liberals don’t care about Mexicans. Now if they cross the border and become “hispanics,” then they matter to liberals.
ICE agent's family files wrongful death claim against Justice Dept.
While the weapons found at the Zapata murder scene were not from among the Fast and Furious guns, this revelation is profoundly significant, because it directly contradicts sworn testimony by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.“I have no information to that effect, no. I don’t know one way or the other,” she replied to a direct question on any Fast and Furious connection by Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
Word games. Here's the little trick Napolitano, Holder and ATF are playing. F&F was an ATF operation run out of the Tucson AZ office. But some guns were walked out of Texas gun shops which puts them in the jurisdiction of Texas ATF offices so those ops must have had other names. So far I have not seen any reporting on what those op names were.
Armored SUV could not protect U.S. agents in MexicoU.S. investigators recovered one of the military-style semi-automatic weapons used in the attack that killed Zapata.
The gun came from Texas.
Ballistic testing of spent shell casings and the raising of an obliterated serial number revealed the weapon was a popular Romanian-made AK-47 knockoff purchased at J&J’s Pawn Shop in Beaumont, smuggled south to the Zetas by a methamphetamine trafficker named Manuel Gomez Barba, a U.S. citizen.
BP Agent Brian Terry was not the only Federal agent killed by guns allowed to walk by the ATF-DoJ.
ICE Agent Jaime Zapata and his partner, Victor Avila, were ambushed at a fake roadblock in Mexico. Were they set up? If so by whom?
Same here. THe Grassley letter posted yesterday has many details. I’ll ping you to the thread or just follow my posts for the past couple of days.
Are you aware that his family and LEO partner filed wrongful death suit against the DOJ within the same 24 hours that 0 declared the EP? Coincidence ?
Here’s the letter:
http://www.grassley.senate.gov/judiciary/upload/ATF-10-25-11-CEG-DEI-to-DOJ-Zapata.pdf
The actions may have different names but the rules are the same. The source of authorization is the same. Now Holder is between BaROCK and a Texan.....Put you money on the Texan.
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