Let’s imagine that George W. Bush’s Department of Justice had a program going that funneled weapons to the drug cartels of Mexico and then that directly to the murder of a US Border Patrol Agent. I have no doubt that the network news would be on full-scale nuke alert and heads would be rolling, including the President’s.
Now let’s imagine the truth:
In the growing Fast and Furious scandal, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s death in Peck Canyon, Arizona was previously 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.
Sources claim the Department of Justice has been trying for almost a year to hide the key information — how the rip crew knew the shipment was coming through that night.
Criminal informants (CIs) are a common tool of law enforcement agencies. When agencies apprehend criminals, agencies often reduce or drop charges in exchange for information leading to the arrests of higher-ranking criminals. Earlier this year, reports claimed that Operation Fast and Furious weapons smuggled over the border were actually chosen by an FBI informant, and paid for with money provided by the federal government.
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.
It is not clear if the information was provided intentionally, but a possible motivation for the FBI to provide the information is known to exist: the CI had previously lost a shipment of drugs, and wanted to regain the trust of the cartel with an offering of drugs or money. The other possibility is that the FBI mistakenly allowed the CI to discover the information.
The CI used this information to organize an ambush of the drug convoy. 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.
This is completely outrageous. But the American news media is laying on their backs like supine sheep. Please call your Member of Congress & US Senator TOMORROW and demand that Attorney General Eric Holder resign and that President Obama be held to account for these crimes.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
I’m not holding my breath on seeing this show up in the MSM anytime soon. Obama could shoot someone in the head on live, national TV and the top story that night would be how racist Rush Limbaugh is for calling Obama a murderer.
There’s no way you can bring Obama directly down over this, but based on what we have here, Holder’s head should roll immediately – and bad things could be said about Obama if he made this in any way difficult.
The MSM news blackout is deliberate. However, this controversy will eventually consume the Obama Administration thanks to alternative news sources.
This thing stinks on ice. It is typical of a “too cute by half” government plot to try to pull off a movie plot. I don’t know where it falls on the scale of other fiasco’s but it is plenty bad enough. The problem, of course, is that there is no way to investigate the Justice Department with any sense of confidence. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?: Who watches the watchmen?
In the sense that a teacher is entrusted with the proper care and conduct of the students, so also do we rely upon our justice department to be fair and balanced and blindfolded to gender, ethnicity, political affiliation, religion, age, means, etc.
Holder had to know or he had to willfully not know or he does not begin to have control of a rogue entity. He is guilty of gross malfeasance or gross misfeasance. That is to be determined.
Furthermore, this has gone on far too long not to have taken on the trappings of a cover-up. That means “The Won” has ignored the mess or has taken an interest in white washing it. He, also, is guilty of gross malfeasance or gross misfeasance. That, too, is to be determined. Of course, in Obambi’s case he can have Joe Biden fall on his sword as a surrogate buffoon.
*Nods to Heliotrope.* Obambi’s a gormless twat who doesn’t understand why this is generating the heat that it has. I in turn simply do NOT understand what it is with some leaders (former Australian PM Kevin Rudd among them) who it seems have no grasp of the concept of moral outrage at the gut level. If he had a lick of common sense, he would have announced his request for Holder to step down “for the good of the office which he holds” after sacking everybody responsible for the planning of that fucking fiasco (with subsequent trials for criminal negligence), but he just sails serenely on.
There is a supreme “disconnect” of mind, body and soul at work here. I cannot comprehend it.
This business reminds me of an old joke from the Clinton era, but it works just as well now. Obama is meeting with a visiting ambassador who’s in a corridor just about to leave the White House. Suddenly, shots ring out, and the media rushes in to see the ambassador lying on the floor and Obama with a smoking gun in his hand. The media people rush up to Obama and ask, “Mister President, Mister President! What Republican shot the ambassador and put that gun in your hand?”
I propose a name change from Fast and Furious to Loose and Scurrilous.