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ICE agent's family files wrongful death claim against Justice Dept.
CBS News ^ | June 20, 2012 4:09 PM | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 06/20/2012 4:31:01 PM PDT by Southnsoul

CBS News has learned that the family of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata has filed a claim for wrongful death against the Justice Dept. and other federal agencies. Zapata was gunned down by suspected drug cartel members in Mexico in Feb. 2011 with weapons later linked to an ATF case in the Texas area. Joining the claim is Zapata's surviving partner in the attack: Victor Avila.

In an interview last November, Zapata's family told CBS News they feel that U.S. law enforcement could have stopped the sale of a gun used to kill their son. CBS News obtained law enforcement records that show the gun that killed Zapata came from the U.S., and the suspects who allegedly trafficked it had been under law enforcement's watch for months in Dallas but weren't arrested.

In February, CBS News learned a second weapon used in the Zapata attack was also linked to an ongoing case under the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

The Justice Department has said ATF "was not aware of" the suspect's purchase of the gun that killed Zapata when it happened, and that answering further questions would jeopardize the investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; banglist; brianterry; dea; death; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; gunrunner; gunwalker; holder; ice; issa; jaimezapata; murdergate; obama; terry; wrongful; zapata
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1 posted on 06/20/2012 4:31:04 PM PDT by Southnsoul
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To: Southnsoul

The hits just keep coming.


2 posted on 06/20/2012 4:39:01 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Joe Brower; Travis McGee; LucyT; vette6387; MetaThought; 60Gunner; XHogPilot; FreedomPoster; ...

The Zapata Family weighs in as well. Good for them.


3 posted on 06/20/2012 4:41:54 PM PDT by MestaMachine (obama kills)
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To: MestaMachine

....seems Jamie was investigating Fast and Furious....and was killed at a “fake roadblock” with a F n F gun under “mysterious circumstances.”....enquiring minds seek to know.


4 posted on 06/20/2012 4:46:33 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave

And exec privilege was invoked for F and F.
Admission of involvement.
No statute of limitations for murder.
High crimes and misdemeanors anyone?


5 posted on 06/20/2012 4:52:59 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: spokeshave

>>>....seems Jamie was investigating Fast and Furious....and was killed at a “fake roadblock” with a F n F gun under “mysterious circumstances.”....enquiring minds seek to know<<<

The REAL reason Obama invoked executive priviledge is to put a stop to investigating the murder of Jamie Zapata.


6 posted on 06/20/2012 4:53:59 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: Southnsoul

Zapata and Avila sue the Obama DOJ: what a bunch of racists.


7 posted on 06/20/2012 4:56:20 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: Southnsoul

High crimes, and misdemeanors.


8 posted on 06/20/2012 4:59:52 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: MestaMachine

You’re right - Good for them.

The Zapata family is in my prayers...


9 posted on 06/20/2012 5:06:19 PM PDT by GOPJ (The 'doting court eunuchs' of the MSM fail to notice...)
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To: Southnsoul

Considering all that has been going on of late, it seems that about this time next week, Holder and Obama should be suffering from flu like symptoms.

Good for the Zapata Family.


10 posted on 06/20/2012 5:26:45 PM PDT by Gator113 (***YOU GAVE it to Obama. I would have voted for NEWT.~Just livin' life, my way~)
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To: LucyT; STARWISE; bcsco; RummyChick; 2ndDivisionVet; Nachum

Is this the real reason Executive Order was declared today? Zapata family is Holder BO’s feet to the fire. or maybe Holder is between BaROCK and a Texan.


11 posted on 06/20/2012 5:44:59 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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To: Southnsoul
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 Mexico

U.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?


12 posted on 06/20/2012 6:13:21 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: Southnsoul; Jim Robinson; Sidebar Moderator

Is this in breaking news? It may be one of the more important “new” articles of the day: If Holder and 0 are being sued by Zapata’s family, the Executive Priviledge would keep information from the Zapata Family.


13 posted on 06/20/2012 6:25:53 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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....and in other good news the 0bambi campaign spent more than they took in.....breaking now on Yahoo news......snicker.

(comments good....like he runs his campaign like the country)

14 posted on 06/20/2012 6:36:24 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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15 posted on 06/20/2012 6:39:16 PM PDT by Hotlanta Mike (Resurrect the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC)...before there is no America!)
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To: Southnsoul

Good for them...!!

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/06/sipsey-street-exclusive-investigators.html

If what is here is true...there’s some in DC that just plain need...IMPEACHIN’


16 posted on 06/20/2012 6:41:21 PM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: TigersEye

Interesting info, TigersEye. Thanks for the links.


17 posted on 06/20/2012 6:45:27 PM PDT by Girlene
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To: spokeshave

Some of the expenses may have been transfers into off shore accounts for BO’s later use....Just sayin


18 posted on 06/20/2012 6:47:26 PM PDT by hoosiermama ( Obama: " born in Kenya.".. he's lying now or then?)
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To: Southnsoul

Sue Holder, Obama, and those PERSONALLY involved; NOT THE TAXPAYERS!


19 posted on 06/20/2012 6:51:45 PM PDT by traditional1 (Don't gotsta worry 'bout no mo'gage, don't gotsta worry 'bout no gas; Obama gonna take care o' me!)
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To: Southnsoul

Hopefully they will get a little justice.


20 posted on 06/20/2012 6:52:06 PM PDT by Leep (Enemy of the StatistI)
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