By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Justice Department announced on Monday the indictment of five people in connection with the 2010 death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, and a $1 million reward from the FBI for info leading to the arrest of four the defendants who remain at large. Authorities unsealed the indictment in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On the one year anniversary of the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, the family issued a statement that included a sharp rebuke of ATF and the Justice Department. “Brian’s death has been extremely difficult to accept. As most know, we had to learn from the news media that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversy over the Justice Department and what it knew about ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious seems to be going on and on and on. The latest: The Wall Street Journal’s Evan Perez reports that the “Justice Department on Friday formally withdrew a February letter about its tactics in investigating gun…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The overspill from ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious is touching plenty folks. The lastest: Former U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton, who has been representing the family of Brian Terry, the border patrol agent in Arizona who was killed by gunfire last December. The family has been considering legal action against the government…
Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com It appeared to be Janet Napolitano’s turn to get roughed up by Rep. Darrell Issa, who has been spearheading a probe into ATF’s controversial Operation Fast and Furious, that encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to straw purchasers, all with the hopes of tracing guns to the Mexican cartels. Politico reports that…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The political tension inside the Beltway over the Operation Fast and Furious appeared to escalate on Monday, one day after Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) went on CBS’ Face the Nation and criticized Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and the FBI. On Sunday, Issa, chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Congress moved one step closer to naming the Border Patrol station in Bisbee, Az., after slain agent Brian Terry, who was killed in December 2010. The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday approved a bill to name the facility after Terry. The bill was authored by Oversight and Government Reform…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The controversial ATF program “Operation Fast and Furious” continues to generate plenty controversy. The latest: CBS News reports that Congressional investigators say the U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona tried covering up a link between Fast and Furious and the murder in Arizona of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry last December. Two…
