{"id":12206,"date":"2011-11-30T17:35:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12206"},"modified":"2011-11-30T17:36:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:36:30","slug":"holder-seals-fast-and-furious-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12206\/holder-seals-fast-and-furious-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Holder Seals Fast and Furious Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

How\u2019s this for a breach of the public\u2019s trust?\u00a0 From Judicial Watch<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed\u00a0court records\u00a0containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico.<\/p>\n

This means information will now be kept from the public as well as the media. Could this be a cover-up on the part of the \u201cmost transparent\u201d administration in history? After all, the rifle used to kill the federal agent (Brian Terry) last December in Arizona\u2019s Peck Canyon was part of the now infamous Operation Fast and Furious. Conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the disastrous scheme allowed guns to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels.<\/p>\n

Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of more than 1,000 guns which have been used in numerous crimes. In Terry\u2019s case, five illegal immigrants armed with at least two semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and Terry got hit.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The report goes on to say that Border Patrol officials have been kept out of the loop on why the Mexican national charged with killing Terry has yet to be tried almost a year after the murder.<\/p>\n

Just before the court documents were sealed, the Washington Times<\/em><\/a> published an article showing why U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and others responsible for the Fast and Furious scandal want the details of Terry\u2019s murder under wraps:<\/p>\n

A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry<\/a> says the Mexican nationals were \u201cpatrolling\u201d the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to \u201cintentionally and forcibly assault\u201d Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n

At least two of the Mexicans carried their assault rifles \u201cat the ready position,\u201d one of several details about the attack showing that Mexican smugglers are becoming more aggressive on the U.S. side of the border.<\/p>\n

According to the indictment, the Mexicans were \u201cpatrolling the area in single-file formation\u201d a dozen miles northwest of the border town of Nogales and \u2014 in the darkness of the Arizona night \u2014 opened fire on four Border Patrol agents after the agents identified themselves in Spanish as police officers.<\/p>\n

Two AK-47 assault rifles found at the scene came from the failed Fast and Furious operation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Imagine if some corrupt machine politician tried to keep in the dark a metropolitan police department on why politically appointed prosecutors were delaying justice for a mafioso cop-killer and sealing his records.\u00a0 The cops \u2013 and the public \u2013 wouldn\u2019t stand for it.\u00a0 Neither should the Border Patrol and the American people.<\/p>\n

H\/T: Mark Hemingway at the Weekly Standard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How\u2019s this for a breach of the public\u2019s trust?\u00a0 From Judicial Watch: The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed\u00a0court records\u00a0containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico. This means information will now be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1460,3024,351,498,2847,2645],"class_list":["post-12206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-border-patrol","tag-brian-terry","tag-corruption","tag-eric-holder","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12206"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12211,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12206\/revisions\/12211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}