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…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The Border Patrol station in Bisbee, Ariz. will be renamed after agent Brian Terry, who was shot to death last December. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, introduced the bill in the House this week. “Our nation’s Border Patrol agents have a distinguished history…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com More controversy surrounding ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious. The Los Angeles Times is reporting a discrepancy between what ATF and the FBI have said about the guns that were sold under the operation, which encouraged Arizona gun dealers to sell to middlemen or “straw purchasers”, with the hopes of tracing the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com ATF earlier this year tried to play down the fact that guns from its highly problematic Operation Fast and Furious program surfaced at the scene of the slaying of Arizona Border Patrol agent Brian Terry last December, the Los Angeles Times reported. The paper reported that the top ATF supervisors in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The family of murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry may sue the government. Fox News reports that the family attorney Paul Chartlon said: “If the evidence shows Brian’s death was proximately caused by the negligence of the federal government, there may be a cause of action. Guns from ATF’s Operation Fast…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com One ATF agent told Congressional investigators that someone was going to die from ATF’s controversial gun-walking program dubbed “Operation Fast and Furious”, and he predicted the program would become the subject of a Congressional inquiry. That prediction by agent Larry Alt was noted in a 51-page report released Tuesday Rep. Darrell…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Fifty six law enforcement officers were “feloniously killed” killed in 2010, including U.S. Border agent Brian Terry, up from 48 in 2009, according to preliminary statistics released Monday by the FBI. Of the 56 felonious deaths: 15 officers were killed during ambushes. 8 were investigating suspicious persons or circumstances….
By Jerry Markon Washington Post Staff Writer WASHINGTON — The shooting deaths of two federal agents last week and three in two months highlight the heightened risk to federal investigators who are confronting increasingly violent fugitives, drug traffickers and other criminals, authorities said. The killing of a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in Mexico…
