Fast & Furious Bombshell:

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FBI Implicated in Death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry

 Kyle Becker | On 28, Dec 2013

Operation Fast & Furious, the U.S. government’s  to run guns to Mexican drug cartels, has a major new development. According to ATF whistleblower John Dodson, the FBI was involved in the drug snatch operation that led to the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The Arizona Republic had a report on Dodson’s revelations, which is catalogued in a new book:

A federal agent who exposed the Justice Department’s flawed gun-trafficking investigation known as Operation Fast and Furious says the FBI played a key role in events leading to the 2010 murder near Nogales, Ariz., of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
John Dodson, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, contends that the bandits who killed Terry were working for FBI operatives and were sent to the border to do a drug rip-off using intelligence from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
“I don’t think the (FBI) assets were part of the rip-off crew,” Dodson said. “I think they were directing the rip crew.”
Dodson’s comments to The Arizona Republic amplify assertions he made in his recently released book, “The Unarmed Truth,” about his role as a whistle-blower in the Fast and Furious debacle. [...]

An inspector general’s report suggests miscommunication among security agencies, but this is the first time the FBI has been implicated in the tactical operation that led to Terry’s death.

Some of Dodson’s narrative is documented in the Justice Department inspector general’s review, which described how Fast and Furious became tangled with collateral cases under the FBI and DEA. The inspector general’s report says the agencies’ failure to appreciate the significance of the inter-connected cases was “troubling.” However, it does not allege that the DEA knew of a drug shipment going through Peck Canyon, or that the FBI passed such information to informants. [Read more]

Border Patrol Agent Briant Terry was killed in an ambush on December 14th, 2010 during a patrol 11 miles from the Mexican border at Peck Canyon, in Santa Cruz County, Arizona. While Terry and his crew fired non-lethal beanbags at the assailants, the drug cartel members fired back with real bullets – killing the 40-year old agent. 



After the president downplayed Fast & Furious as a “phony scandal,” the Terry family released this statement in July 2012:

“These deaths are real. My son’s death was real. I am outraged that President Obama is talking about phony scandals when he knows all too well that my son was a victim of Operation Fast and Furious that was authorized by members of his Justice Department and a U.S. Attorney that he appointed. Operation Fast and Furious was all too real for me and my family, and it directly contributed to my son’s murder,” Josephine Terry, the mother of Brian Terry said in a statement. “Mr. President, come to Michigan and I will show you my son’s grave…then let’s have a conversation about your definition of phony scandals.”

The Terry family sought damages against the federal government for a wrongful death suit, but were denied in November due to legal restrictions on families receiving death benefits and civil damages.
In other recent news, Jaime Avila, who bought the guns that were left at Terry’s murder scene, was sentenced to 57 months in prison earlier in December.

Several ATF agents and DOJ officials involved in the botched operation were reshuffled in an act of superficial accountability. Attorney General Eric Holder refused to turn over all documents related to the operation, and was held in contempt by the House of Representatives in June 2012.