Posted on 04/21/2012 7:52:16 AM PDT by 4buttons
The Department of Justice is using the liberal watchdog group Media Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
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The reason theyre covering up the third gun is because it could lead to the confidential informant, Pavlich said. Theyre protecting him at the cost of justice to Brian Terry and his family. I am not an expert on what confidential informants are allowed to get away with, but I guarantee theyre not allowed to kill federal agents.
The ‘funny’ part about all this is that the ‘gang’ that ran into the Border Patrol was mostly FBI and DEA undercover agents.
The reason theyre covering up the third gun is because it could lead to the confidential informant, Pavlich said. Theyre protecting him at the cost of justice to Brian Terry and his family. I am not an expert on what confidential informants are allowed to get away with, but I guarantee theyre not allowed to kill federal agents.
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Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal Townhall.com ^ | April 16, 2012 | Katie Pavlich
Operation Fast and Furious is the deadliest and most sinister scandal in American history. A scandal so big, its worse than Iran-Contra and makes Watergate look like a high school prank gone wrong.
In the early days of the Obama Administration, President Obama claimed his goal was to stop the trafficking of guns from the United States into the hands of violent Mexican drug cartels. He claimed gun dealers in the United States were responsible for sending guns to Mexico. Both of his claims were lies.
In order to push his lies and policies built around them, with a goal of implementing harsher gun control laws and reinstating the assault weapons ban, President Obama packed his administration full of anti-Second Amendment zealots. After all, personnel is policy.
In my new book, Fast and Furious: Barack Obamas Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Coverup, I document the conspiracy of senior Obama officials to subvert the Second Amendment, which led directly to the murders of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, I.C.E. Agent Jaime Zapata and countless, faceless lives in Mexico. It debunks the Obama administrations lies, denials and excuses. This administration was willing to use humans as collateral damage to push a political agenda, and had no shame in doing so. Now, the administration has no shame in covering up their reckless actions.
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Napolitano perjured herself to Congress in Fast & Furious testimony
In her explosive new book Fast and Furious, Katie Pavlich makes the case that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano not only failed to stop an operation that led to the death of one of her own, Border Agent Brian A. Terry, but she may have also lied to Congress in sworn testimony at a hearing held to find out what really happened. Inside sources told Pavlich that Napolitanos testimony was in direct contradiction to emails she exchanged, and reports and briefing she received, according to an exclusive preview of the book by Human Events.
What's happened to our world?
>The funny part about all this is that the gang that ran into the Border Patrol was mostly FBI and DEA undercover agents.
Hm, that brings to mind a horrible idea: imagine a scenario where a bunch of gang-members who are government-agents on “deep-cover” assignment are tasked with various tasks like, say, eliminating judges who are incorruptible or people who are “in the way” of the administration. They could then say, without lying, that these people were killed by gangs. (the same theory holds for terrorists.)
I can imagine the government getting a lot of mileage out of that: 1) the elimination of people who refuse to “play the game” and 2) the oppertunity to push for more government action.
FBI Criminal Informant Complicit in Brian Terrys Death (PJM Exclusive)Previously, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terrys 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 Terrys under-armed four-man unit walked into an ambush against a heavily armed rip crew, at least five of whom were carrying rifles.
Brian Terrys 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.
FBI Criminal Informant Complicit in Brian Terrys Death (PJM Exclusive)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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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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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 Terrys 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.
The Mexicans who killed Terry were WAITING for them —their purpose that night was AMBUSH.
At the time of the killing the Obama admin had (and might still have) a secret “no bust for rival cartel info” AGREEMENT with the Sinaloa Cartel.
The Obama Presidency is indeed historic —it’s the first time we had a DISHONORABLE, DISGUSTING, DIRTY DRUG DEALER AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF.
(more accurately it might well be foreign-born, Muslim, bisexual drug-dealer but one or two of those are, “iffY”)
This is old - but did you see it?
http://news.investors.com/article/605015/201203201846/atf-released-fast-furious-kingpin-acosta.htm
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