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I know I’ve been doing a lot of posting on the Fast and Furious scandal and some of you might not be as enthralled as I am with it but I think this is heading downhill quickly for the DOJ (and thus Eric Holder) and I can’t wait to see where this will all end up. It’s like a great mystery movie where you watch and watch and wait to see “who done it”. We all know “who done it” here but will they get away with it and will it eventually end up in Obama’s lap? Breaking news out...

Kincaid Conference: Traitors, Spies and Terrorists Exposed; Eric Holder Resign NOW! Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival sponsored another incredible forum, June 28, 2011, at the National Press Club. The forum discussed communists, terrorists and Cuban agents of influence working within our borders, and demanded the removal of Attorney General Eric Holder. Kincaid’s panel fell short of calling Holder an outright traitor, but conference attendees would have a difficult time concluding otherwise, given the wealth of detail presented on Holder’s assistance to convicted terrorists both within our jails and in other countries beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement. As usual,...

Imagine a scenario in which the media outlet most afflicted with Barack Obama Sycophancy Syndrome (BOSS) – the place Chris ‘thrill up my leg’ Matthews calls home – presented a ’smoking gun’ that could implicate the Obama White House in a cover-up akin to that of Watergate but with the added scarlet letter of murder. The notion of such a thing would be like Woodward and Bernstein ignoring Deep Throat. Impossible, right? Yes, unless it did so unintentionally. It looks like that honor may just go to none other than Michael Isikoff who, in September of 2010, wrote about an...

An Indiana couple was arrested on gunrunning charges after they tried to sell several guns including an assault rifle to undercover police, officials said today. DeAndre Hampton, 25, and Alana Arila, 23, both of Indianapolis, were ordered held on bail after they were arrested last week when they arranged to meet with an undercover officer from the Cook County Sheriff's Special operations unit, according to a press release from Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart.

Indictment Accuses Mayor, Police Chief, Others Of Trying To Export Guns To Mexico Favored By Cartels EL PASO, Texas -- Editor's Note: Initial reports from Luna County Sheriff Raymond Cobos indicated the men were also detained on drug-related charges. The indictment unsealed Thursday afternoon does not make mention of any drug charges, only firearms trafficking. The mayor and police chief of the Village of Columbus, N.M., were among 10 people arrested Thursday morning on allegations of buying firearms in the U.S. to illegally export to Mexico, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in New Mexico. The defendants charged in the...

HIDALGO — Two brothers are facing firearms smuggling charges after police found more than a dozen high-powered rifles inside their vehicle’s gas tank Tuesday morning. It began with a traffic stop at about 8 a.m. near the intersection of Military Highway and McColl Road in Hidalgo, said Police Chief Vernon Rosser. When the patrol officer ran both of the suspects names, Antonio Ibarra, 41, and Edwardo Ibarra, 37, through their database, he found they both had traffic warrants, Rosser said. “But traffic warrants didn’t justify their actions,” Rosser said about the suspects’ nervous demeanor. “The way the guys were acting...

“Coming next will be more info on what the agents refer to as the Phoenix ATF office ‘walking across’ ARs and AKs to pad their statistics,” this column reported on Monday, citing a December reference to allegations made on the CleanUpATF.org forum that approval/direction was given for “more than 500 AR-15 type rifles from Tucson and Phoenix cases to be ‘walked’ to Mexico.” As we’ve previously discussed, CleanUpATF is run by a group of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives employees who formed “a non-profit organization dedicated to returning integrity, accountability and decency to the management of the Bureau...

Convicted Houston gun trafficker offers tips on Mexico's Zetas U.S. agents are armed with the secrets of a convicted Houston gunrunner, information that could lead them to top Mexican drug-cartel bosses and the Texas firearms dealers suppling high-powered weapons. Christian Garza was sentenced to three years in federal prison as a result of a plea agreement that offered leniency in exchange for telling U.S. officials about his criminal contacts, according to court papers.

Sheriff: Region needs crime lab, resources Local law enforcement needs a regional crime lab and more resources, Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar told U.S. Sen. John Cornyn during a closed-door briefing Saturday. "We're kind of running behind in DNA and ballistics tests because we're on a waiting list and at the mercy of other crime labs in the area," Cuellar said. "We have to go to San Antonio, where we have a six- to eight-month waiting period." With a regional crime lab serving Webb, Zapata and Jim Hogg counties, the District Attorney's Office could prosecute cases in a more timely...

"As a result of the actions taken by the boat crew, an Israel Navy force intercepted, boarded, and took control of the cargo boat, directing it towards Ashdod," the IDF said, adding: "No gunshots were fired on board during the boarding and capturing of the cargo boat." The army said that the crew of the ship would be detained for questioning by the Israel Police and that all humanitarian goods found on board would be transferred to the Gaza Strip. Speaking in Tel Aviv, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said that the navy "prevented the ship from entering Gaza waters. The...

Gun manufacturing in the Pakistan boondocks. In the clip below you'll see an amazing 'industry' in Pakistan turning out 1000 weapons a day and have done so for seventy years. That is over 25 million firearms...and we think they can be subdued...maybe after killing them all. Mr. Obama has a tall job in front of him, espescially if he believes that he can overcome Islam and their arms to achieve their end... Have a look...

Lawmakers used the meeting of President-elect Barack Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon today to file legislation in the Senate and House to reduce drug-related violence on the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill, introduced by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, would provide $30 million over two years to expand the Justice Department’s "Project Gunrunner Initiative" that targets gun-smuggling networks. "The increasing violence in Mexico is now a U.S. national security issue," Hutchison said. In addition to Bingaman and Hutchison, Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, both Republicans, also signed on to the legislation . A...

MEXICO CITY - A Mexican beauty queen and international pageant winner has been detained by police along with suspected drug traffickers who had assault rifles and cash. Laura Zuniga, the 23-year-old Miss Sinaloa from the marijuana-producing Mexican state, was held with seven men at a military checkpoint in Guadalajara, police said on Tuesday. "She is the beauty queen of Sinaloa and was aboard an SUV with the weapons and several of the men," said a police spokesman from western Jalisco state, home to Guadalajara. The spokesman said police and soldiers at the checkpoint on the outskirts of Mexico's second-biggest city...

WASHINGTON — A senior U.S. law enforcement official said Friday the Bush administration never assessed whether a decade-long assault weapon ban had reduced the flow of high-powered guns into the hands of Mexican drug gangs. "I don't think we've ever really tracked it," said William McMahon, of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Since the expiration of the ban in 2004, Mexican drug syndicates have built up their stockpiles, Mexican officials say. They have long maintained that the weapons — many bought in Texas and smuggled into Mexico — have escalated the country's drug-fueled violence that has killed...

A Laredo man who bought and sold guns that were later found at the scene of a deadly cartel shootout with police in central Mexico has been arrested on charges of smuggling ammunition into that country. Raúl Alvarez Jr., who was interviewed as part of an Express-News investigation of gunrunning, was in federal custody Thursday in lieu of $100,000 bond. He was arrested Monday at the one of the international bridges in Laredo as he and a female companion tried to cross into Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, in a 2000 Ford Expedition. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers conducting inspections of...

The young Mexican national looked over the table at a San Antonio taquería and nonchalantly described the firepower that passed through his hands as if he were describing the trowel he now uses to lay bricks. Heckler & Koch MP5s. Colt AR-15s. M16s. Berettas. Barrett sniper rifles. “To kill people, hurt people, we use them as a tool for kidnap and for escort drugs,” the former Mexican drug cartel foot soldier, who previously served in the Mexican army, said in broken English. “That was the use ... that we gave to the weapons.” THE SELLERS: Gun merchants caught between profit...

MEXICO CITY - Mexico's top organized crime prosecutor has called on U.S. officials to do more to halt illegal weapons trafficking to help Mexico stem a wave of bloody, drug-fueled violence. Jose Luis Santiago Vasconcelos, in remarks Thursday, said the rising brutality of recent drug executions was due to hit men taking over cartels after their bosses were arrested. "It's foreseeable that this type of violence will continue like this," Santiago Vasconcelos told a small group of foreign reporters, "because the Mexican government will never make any deals" with drug gangs. "We know that there is a large amount of...

AL ASAD, Iraq (July 3, 2006) -- Marines, sailors and civilians gathered under the shade of an old hanger here to celebrate the 35 years of hard work, dedication and service by the Marines of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, July 1. The squadron, HMLA-269, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, was activated July 1, 1971, at Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., and was the first designated light attack helicopter squadron. While history was made in the hangar, Master Sgt. Anthony L. Sexton, avionics chief, and Staff Sgt. Nelson Mondaca, maintenance administration, shared a...

AL ASAD, Iraq (May 5, 2006) -- A distinctive beating is heard overhead as two attack helicopters circle ground forces patrolling the western Al Anbar Province of Iraq. The slim, grasshopper-like powerhouses and barrel-chested gunships belong to the pioneers of close air combat support, the Gunrunners of Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 269, Marine Aircraft Group 16 (Reinforced), 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. Both the AH-1W Super Cobra and the UH-1N Huey, are organic to the squadron. The aircraft, as a team, are capable of distributing massive amounts of firepower to both ground and air opposing forces. The Gunrunners returned to...

AL ASAD, Iraq (Aug. 19, 2005) -- The Gunrunners of Marine Light/Attack Helicopter Squadron 269 have transferred their mission to the Warriors of HML/A-167. The squadron will soon return to Marine Corps Air Station, New River, N.C., after six months deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. “It’s an honor to be part of the history of Iraq,” said Cpl. Chris J. Henderson, HML/A-269 administrative clerk and Baton Rouge, La., native. “We had a mission set out for us before coming out here and we accomplished it in a way that makes our unit proud.” With only half of their...