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September 9, 2011

Fox News: New Documents Suggest FBI Cover-up of Third 'Fast and Furious' Gun Found at Brian Terry's Murder Scene

Though the media, including Fox News, still characterize "Fast and Furious" as a "botched" gunwalking operation, there was nothing botched about it ... the guns 'walked' just as Obama's ATF and DOJ had planned. The high powered weapons walked right into the hands of criminal gangs on both sides of the border (H/t - Nice Deb).

And today, there's news of another "Fast and Furious" link to the shooting death of border patrol agent, Brian Terry. New emails suggest a cover-up of a third gun found at the crime scene which was secured by a member of the Sinaloa Cartel.

William Lajeunesse reports (emphasis mine):

A third gun linked to "Operation Fast and Furious" was found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, new documents obtained exclusively by Fox News suggest, contradicting earlier assertions by federal agencies that police found only two weapons tied to the federal government's now infamous gun interdiction scandal.

Sources say emails support their contention that the FBI concealed evidence to protect a confidential informant. Sources close to the Terry case say the FBI informant works inside a major Mexican cartel and provided the money to obtain the weapons used to kill Terry.

Unlike the two AK-style assault weapons found at the scene, the third weapon could more easily be linked to the informant. To prevent that from happening, sources say, the third gun "disappeared."

In addition to the emails obtained by Fox News, an audio recording from a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent investigating the Terry case seems to confirm the existence of a third weapon. In that conversation, the agent refers to an "SKS assault rifle out of Texas" found at the Terry murder scene south of Tucson.

The FBI refused to answer a detailed set of questions submitted to officials by Fox News. Instead, agency spokesman Paul Bresson said, "The Brian Terry investigation is still ongoing so I cannot comment." Bresson referred Fox News to court records that only identify the two possible murder weapons.

However, in the hours after Terry was killed on Dec. 14, 2010, several emails written to top ATF officials suggest otherwise.

[...] Asked about the content of the emails, a former federal prosecutor who viewed them expressed shock.

"I have never seen anything like this. I can see the FBI may have an informant involved but I can't see them tampering with evidence. If this is all accurate, I'm stunned," the former prosecutor said.

"This information confirms what our sources were saying all along -- that the FBI was covering up the true circumstances of the murder of Brian Terry," added Mike Vanderboegh, an authority on the Fast and Furious investigation who runs a whistleblower website called Sipsey Street.

"It also confirms that the FBI was at least as culpable, and perhaps more culpable, than the ATF in the (Fast and Furious) scandal, and that there was some guiding hand above both these agencies (and the other agencies involved) coordinating the larger operation," Vanderboegh said.

Read the whole thing here ...

These are the people who are sworn to protect us? And Obama wants Americans to put their faith in his judgement and that of his administration? Where are the left-wing media on this ... they went nuts over over the arms for contras and Watergate controversies ... but essentially ignore the Obama administration's "Fast and Furious" which is much much worse.

Posted by Richard at September 9, 2011 11:51 AM

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