Posted on 09/03/2015 9:06:24 AM PDT by Nachum
The U.S. government is fighting to keep details of how its own federal gun agents let Mexican drug cartels buy rifles in Arizona illegally out of an upcoming murder trial in which two men will be tried for the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry who died after he ran into men carrying those same illegal guns.
In a court filing Monday, prosecutors are trying to keep some details about the guns found at the slain agent’s murder scene away from the jury.
Terry, 40, was part of the Border Patrol’s elite BORTAC unit. In December 2010, the group of agent’s was patrolling an area outside of Nogales, Ariz., named Mesquite Seep. They were looking for a rip-off crew comprised of men from Sinaloa who were roaming the border region in search of drug smugglers to rob. A firefight broke out. Terry was struck by gunfire and died at the scene. One of the rip-off crew members, Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, was wounded in the exchange.
Two guns found at the crime scene, AK-47 variants, came from a gunstore in Glendale, Ariz. Prosecutors acknowledge that those two rifles were part of a scandalous Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives program, Operation Fast and Furious. But FBI ballistics experts were never able to tie the rounds that killed Terry to either gun.
Now, the United States wants to keep Operation Fast and Furious out of the murder trial.
Monday’s filing states:
“The defendants should be precluded from mentioning Operation Fast and Furious.”
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Obama will assert executive privilege on that.
Later
Something a bit different for the ping list topic, today. This is where corruption leads us.
Bammy/Holder sought to flood Mexico with firearms so millions of Mexicans would flee north to invade America. Looks like Bammy/Holder found another way to do it.
5 years later, and it still has not gone to trial.
They be a lot o’ stonewallin’ goin’ on heah...
Foolish legal move. Regardless of judicial ruling, someone on jury will hear about it and one cannot “unring the bell.”
All gmvt has done is tell everyone that this an important issue that gmvt wants to keep secret from jury.... and juries see that as insulting them and they don’t like it.
Foolish legal move. Regardless of judicial ruling, someone on jury will hear about it and one cannot “unring the bell.”
All gmvt has done is tell everyone that this an important issue that gmvt wants to keep secret from jury.... and juries see that as insulting them and they don’t like it.
..."agent's," (singular posessive) should be "agents," plural.
"was" patrolling should be "were" patrolling. "were" is of course use with the plural "agents."
In other words, they are Fast and Furiously trying to keep that “Under the Radar”.
So Obama is willing to risk a mistrial (and release) of two murderers by withholding information from the defense?
Of course, he is.
Guess what other case they want kept unconnected with F&F?
If you guessed that it was the one where ATF armed at least one of the muslum terrorists who attacked a peaceful protest against mohammedanism in Garland, Texas this year, you got it.
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