'Fast and Furious' Guns Found at Ariz. Crime Scene

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    The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal


    A Fortune investigation reveals that the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. How the world came to believe just the opposite is a tale of rivalry, murder, and political bloodlust.


    FORTUNE -- In the annals of impossible assignments, Dave Voth's ranked high. In 2009 the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives promoted Voth to lead Phoenix Group VII, one of seven new ATF groups along the Southwest border tasked with stopping guns from being trafficked into Mexico's vicious drug war.
    Some call it the "parade of ants"; others the "river of iron." The Mexican government has estimated that 2,000 weapons are smuggled daily from the U.S. into Mexico. The ATF is hobbled in its effort to stop this flow. No federal statute outlaws firearms trafficking, so agents must build cases using a patchwork of often toothless laws. For six years, due to Beltway politics, the bureau has gone without permanent leadership, neutered in its fight for funding and authority. The National Rifle Association has so successfully opposed a comprehensive electronic database of gun sales that the ATF's congressional appropriation explicitly prohibits establishing one.
    Voth, 39, was a good choice for a Sisyphean task. Strapping and sandy-haired, the former Marine is cool-headed and punctilious to a fault. In 2009 the ATF named him outstanding law-enforcement employee of the year for dismantling two violent street gangs in Minneapolis. He was the "hardest working federal agent I've come across," says John Biederman, a sergeant with the Minneapolis Police Department. But as Voth left to become the group supervisor of Phoenix Group VII, a friend warned him: "You're destined to fail."

    http://features.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/06/27/fast-and-furious-truth/
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  7. mpd61 Federal Auxiliary Police

    the ATF never intentionally allowed guns to fall into the hands of Mexican drug cartels.

    Kiss my ass...wimps can't prosecute? Who gives a fuck, make the arrests you stoopid a-holes! Trace where the money came from, can't prove it? yeah plenty of 19 year olds have $20,000 to plunk down for twenty (20) rifles?
    BS!!!
    BATFE & Holder at the very least peripherally responsible for the death of one of our own!
    :mad:
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    Darrell Issa Puts Details of Secret Wiretap Applications in Congressional Record

    In the midst of a fiery floor debate over contempt proceedings for Attorney General Eric Holder, House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) quietly dropped a bombshell letter into the Congressional Record.
    The May 24 letter to Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.), ranking member on the panel, quotes from and describes in detail a secret wiretap application that has become a point of debate in the GOP’s “Fast and Furious” gun-walking probe.
    The wiretap applications are under court seal, and releasing such information to the public would ordinarily be illegal. But Issa appears to be protected by the Speech or Debate Clause in the Constitution, which offers immunity for Congressional speech, especially on a chamber’s floor.

    http://www.rollcall.com/news/darrel...p_applications_in_congressional-215828-1.html
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    Justice Department won't prosecute Attorney General Holder for contempt of Congress - He's black and Democrat! We can't prosecute him!!!!


    Eric Holder is America's first Black and first Islamic Attorney General
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    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department declared Friday that Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to withhold information about a bungled gun-tracking operation from Congress does not constitute a crime and he won't be prosecuted for contempt of Congress.

    The House voted Thursday afternoon to find Holder in criminal and civil contempt for refusing to turn over the documents. President Barack Obama invoked his executive privilege authority and ordered Holder not to turn over materials about executive branch deliberations and internal recommendations.

    In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner, the department said that it will not bring the congressional contempt citation against Holder to a federal grand jury and that it will take no other action to prosecute the attorney general. Dated Thursday, the letter was released Friday.

    Deputy Attorney General James Cole said the decision is in line with long-standing Justice Department practice across administrations of both political parties.

    "We will not prosecute an executive branch official under the contempt of Congress statute for withholding subpoenaed documents pursuant to a presidential assertion of executive privilege," Cole wrote.

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    Complaint seeks to have Holder disbarred after contempt vote

    Published July 12, 2012
    FoxNews.com
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      Fallout from the Operation Fast and Furious scandal continues to spread, as Attorney General Eric Holder faces a new call to be disbarred or penalized after he was found in contempt of Congress.
    A formal complaint was filed last week with the Washington, D.C., Office of Bar Counsel -- of which Holder is a member. The letter was submitted by gun-rights advocates and bloggers David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh, who have reported extensively on Operation Fast and Furious.
    The complaint says it appears Holder has violated the rules of professional conduct after he was found in contempt of Congress last month for not complying with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoena seeking documents pertaining to the administration's handling of Fast and Furious.


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    Lawmakers: 'Ominous' video a warning to ATF whistle-blowers after 'Furious'

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    The head of ATF recently warned employees that they will face "consequences" if they don't "respect the chain of command," in what Republican lawmakers are decrying as an "ominous message" meant to frighten would-be whistle-blowers in the wake of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
    Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa., and Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., fired off a letter Wednesday to Acting Director B. Todd Jones saying the message "could be interpreted as a threat" and urging him to clarify.
    "It was scary," Issa told Fox News on Thursday, in reference to Jones' video message to employees.
    In the July 9 video message[IMG], Jones touched on a topic he described as "choices and consequences." By that, Jones said, he was talking about "organizational discipline" and the need for workers to "play by the rules" -- embedded in the warning was the line about properly raising internal concerns.


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    Nothing to see here, folks....move along.

    BREAKING: 43 Weapons in Phoenix Traffic Stop Linked to Holder’s Gunrunning Scandal


    The ABC15 Investigators have linked an additional 43 weapons recovered during a Phoenix traffic stop to the controversial Fast and Furious ATF case.

    According to court paperwork, Phoenix Drug Enforcement Administration agents discovered the guns in mid-April. They pulled over a vehicle near 83rd Avenue and Interstate 10, near the Phoenix and Tolleson border.


    See More: http://nation.foxnews.com/fast-and-...-traffic-stop-linked-holder-s-gunrunning-scan
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    Mexico arrests suspect in Fast and Furious killing of Brian Terry

    Published September 08, 2012
    Associated Press
    MEXICO CITY – Mexican federal police announced Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the slaying at the center of the scandal over the botched U.S. gun-smuggling probe known as Operation Fast and Furious.
    Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza is one of the five men charged with killing Terry in December 2010 during a shootout in Arizona near the Mexico border. One is on trial in Arizona and the other three remain fugitives. Sanchez was arrested Thursday in Sonora state.
    Two guns found at the scene were bought by a member of a gun-smuggling ring that was being monitored in the Fast and Furious investigation. Critics have knocked U.S. federal authorities for allowing informants to walk away from Phoenix-area gun shops with weapons, rather than immediately arresting suspects.


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/09/08/mexico-arrests-suspect-in-fast-and-furious-killing-brian-terry/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews#ixzz25tFLvrn1
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    'Furious' report slams 'disregard' for public safety as DOJ officials quit

    Published September 19, 2012
    FoxNews.com
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      A bombshell report released Wednesday on Operation Fast and Furious faulted a range of federal agencies for the failed anti-gunrunning program and accused officials in charge of a "disregard" for public safety. In the wake of the report, one Justice Department official resigned and another retired.
    The sprawling report by the department's inspector general is the most comprehensive account yet on the deadly operation which allowed weapons to "walk" across the U.S.-Mexico border and resulted in hundreds of firearms turning up at crime scenes in both countries.
    The report says Attorney General Eric Holder was not made aware of potential flaws in the program until February of last year. But the report cites 14 other department employees -- including Criminal Division head Lanny Breuer -- for potential wrongdoing, recommending the department consider disciplinary action against them.
    One congressional source told Fox News the report was "more brutal than was expected."


  17. 7costanza . . .

    Amazing that Univision asks tougher questions and does better investigating than our actual press.

    http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/u...ious-scandal-to-murders-of-mexican-teenagers/

    The Spanish language television news network Univision unleashed a bombshell investigative report on Operation Fast and Furious Sunday evening, finding that in January 2010 drug cartel hit men slaughtered students with weapons the United States government allowed to flow to them across the Mexican border.
    “On January 30, 2010, a commando of at least 20 hit men parked themselves outside a birthday party of high school and college students in Villas de Salvarcar, Ciudad Juarez,” according to a version of the Univision report in English, on the ABC News website.
    “Near midnight, the assassins, later identified as hired guns for the Mexican cartel La Linea, broke into a one-story house and opened fire on a gathering of nearly 60 teenagers. Outside, lookouts gunned down a screaming neighbor and several students who had managed to escape. Fourteen young men and women were killed, and 12 more were wounded before the hit men finally fled.”
    Citing a Mexican Army document it obtained and published, Univision reported that “[t]hree of the high caliber weapons fired that night in Villas de Salvarcar were linked to a gun tracing operation run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).”
    That operation was Fast and Furious.
    The “massacre,” as Univision described it, was not the only bombshell the network unveiled in its Sunday evening report.
    “Univision News identified a total of 57 more previously unreported firearms that were bought by straw purchasers monitored by ATF during Operation Fast and Furious, and then recovered in Mexico in sites related to murders, kidnappings, and at least one other massacre,” the Univision report reads.


    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/01/univision-report-connects-operation-fast-and-furious-scandal-to-murders-of-mexican-teenagers/#ixzz283rdn11u
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    ATF Whistleblower Fired in Denny's Parking Lot For Exposing Corruption

    Special Agent Vince Cefalu has worked for the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms for more than 25 years. On top of successfully placing dozens of hard criminals behind bars throughout his career, Cefalu has received promotions and consistently positive evaluations. When he started raising his voice about ATF corruption and illegal wiretapping in 2005, things changed. Tuesday evening, Cefalu was asked to meet Special Agent in Charge of the San Francisco Field Division Joseph Riehl at a Denny's Restaurant near Lake Tahoe. When he arrived, he was served termination papers in the parking lot. Classy move. The exchange was secretly recorded by a confidential source. David Codrea has more:



    http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2012/10/12/atf_whistleblower_fired_in_dennys_parking_lot
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    Mexican national charged in killing of Border Patrol agent to change plea

    Published October 30, 2012
    Associated Press
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      U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry was fatally shot Dec. 14 north of the Arizona-Mexico border. (AP)
    A man charged with killing a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a 2010 firefight near the Arizona-Mexico border is scheduled to change his plea Tuesday in federal court.
    Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, of El Fuerte in the Mexican state of Sinaloa, had previously pleaded not guilty to murder, assault on a federal officer and other charges in the December 2010 death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/10/30/mexican-national-to-change-plea-in-death-border-patrol-agent-tied-to-furious/#ixzz2AnLUxUpc
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    Family of murdered border agent sues federal officials over 'Fast and Furious'

    Published December 14, 2012
    Associated Press
    PHOENIX – The family of a slain Border Patrol agent has sued federal officials over the botched "Fast and Furious" gun operation.
    Agent Brian Terry was mortally wounded on Dec. 14, 2010, in a firefight north of the Arizona-Mexico border between U.S. agents and five men who had sneaked into the country to rob marijuana smugglers.
    Federal authorities conducting "Fast and Furious" have faced tough criticism for allowing suspected straw gun buyers for a smuggling ring to walk away from gun shops in Arizona with weapons, rather than arrest them and seize weapons.
    The lawsuit filed Thursday and made publicly available on Friday came from Terry's parents against six managers and investigators for the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
    The family also sued a federal prosecutor who had previously handled the case but is no longer on it, and the owner of the gun store where two rifles found in the firefight's aftermath were bought.


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/12/14/family-murdered-border-agent-sues-federal-officials-over-fast-and-furious/?test=latestnews#ixzz2F7nnvoZF
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    Mexican national reportedly claims he killed Border Patrol agent Brian Terry

    Published January 18, 2013
    FoxNews.com
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      This undated photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection shows U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry. (AP Photo/U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
    A Mexican national reportedly claims he killed U.S. border agent Brian Terry, whose 2010 murder contributed to the exposure of the Operation Fast and Furious scandal.
    Weapons from the botched anti-gunrunning program run by the U.S. government were found at Terry's murder scene.
    Gustavo Cruz-Lozano made the claim that he pulled the trigger in an exclusive interview with Spanish-language television station Univision, and his comments were then translated and reported by ABCNews.com.


    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/18/mexican-national-reportedly-claims-killed-border-patrol-agent-brian-terry/?test=latestnews#ixzz2IKh45Za6

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