Posted on 06/22/2012 5:25:13 AM PDT by suspects
he 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.”
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...
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Since this was posted twice, why don’t you ask the mods to take this one down.
Just reported the double post on the other thread cause I saw this one had a comment...Then clicked here to read your comment.....We’re almost as unorganized as 0 and WithHolder.
Good morning!
Good morning to you :) No, we’ll never be that disorganized. I just went for the second post; it seemed to be the logical choice to delete. Now, if that happens, our good mornings will go down the memory hole...
Two other forgotten words are “Scooter Libby,” who “misremembered” a date when giving testimony about the over-blown Valerie Plame affair and was thrown in prison for three years. Why shouldn’t Eric Holder, who blatantly lied in a letter to Congress, merit the same punishment? And why doesn’t a GOP congressman bring up the treatment Scooter Libby received from Democrats and their media presstitutes?
Obummers fate can be told by the readers comments to the article. The people of MA get it . It proves that Americans are turning on obumbler and the rat party.
Maybe he needs a bracelet
Oh wait, obama had a bracelet and still couldnt remember the name of a troop he was using for a campaign prop
Hadn’t read any of the comments till your post....They are taking no prisoners. WOW
Uh hello! mr reporter. There were a lot of us who were well aware of the “program”. I guess getting that degree in journalism wasn’t such a smart deal after all. At least when a similar program was underway during the previous administration they tried to keep track of the weapons instead of just tossing them over the non-existent fence willy nilly. No offense to Willy by the way.
Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.
the family of ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata has filed a claim for wrongful death against the Justice Dept. and other federal ... 2011 with weapons later linked to an ATF case in the Texas area.
Can’t forget the Scooter since it was proven by admission that DICK armitage was to “plame” and should have been the one doing time. Ridiculouser all the time.
Helping keep mankind warm for 65 years.
DId you see the video and thread Wednesday of the 2009 news conference?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L54gOgJxIRQ
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2897538/posts
Zapata family filed suit:
where’s “if-I-had-a-son” Obama when it comes to Justice for Terry?
Scooter didn't do any time. He was sentenced to 30 months by a race-baiting, Federal-bench-warming DC political hack named "Reggie" Walton, but President Bush commuted Scooter's sentence without pardoning him for his non-crime. The case involved false statements by a number of people, including the non-spy whose non-undercover status was not compromised—Valerie Wilson—and the partisan, ethically challenged prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, plus a cast of characters in between, notably Washington political reporters who were Democrats, but I repeat myself. None of the liars in this case was named Libby.
Bush should have fully pardoned Libby and fired the pretentious, résumé-polishing Fitzgerald.
Libby was disbarred from the DC bar until sometime this year. That may have been a compliment.
To the more than half of America that only half pays attention to the news, "Fast and Furious" is still a B-rated action movie.
This scandal will gain much more traction if we shift the meme over to MURDERGATE.
When liberals whine and ask why we call it Murdergate, just say, "Because nobody was murdered at the Watergate."
Speaking of “murder”, did you see Brian Terry’s parents’ interview on Hannity last night?
Something Mr. Terry said in the interview jumped out at me and gave me chills. First he said (paraphrased) he believes that Obama and Holder are covering up something much bigger. Then he said that he (Brian Terry) “wasn’t supposed to be there that night” (when he was killed). My impression was that maybe the parents wonder if he was lured there and intentionally taken out — maybe he knew too much, saw something he shouldn’t have, etc. Maybe Issa should expand his horizons in the committee’s questioning.
If you combine a cover-up of “something bigger”, with “he wasn’t supposed to be there that night”, it’s just ikky.
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