U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered by a Mexican narco-terrorist 'rip crew' on American territory. According to recent reports, the gang that shot Terry included an FBI informant who had been apprehended–and then released–by federal authorities. The DEA also "ran" a criminal informant who either participated in or (at least) knew about the rip crew's whereabout and plans. Terry's murderer and his associates were armed with rifles deliberately supplied to Mexican drug gangs by the ATF as part of Operation Fast and Furious. Their activities were funded, at least in part, by a DEA money laundering/smuggling scheme that processed tens of millions of dollars for the Mexican drug cartels. The FBI released three of the suspected murders on their own recognizance after Terry's murder.
This reminds me more and more of Webb's Dark Alliance work, when the CIA ran Nicaraguan cocaine into LA and the money back to the narco-terrorists in order to overthrow a foreign government.
There are many other elements to Terry's killing, and many examples of similar extra-legal, drug cartel-enabling operations by the U.S. government. The U.S. Attorney Office released a grenade maker headed for Mexico. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement allowed ATF-enabled weapons to cross the border without interception. And those are just illegal actions that we know about.
But let's focus on the conspiracy that killed Agent Terry. The DEA was laundering money for Agent Terry's murderers, the FBI caught one of them and released him, and the ATF literally put the murder weapons in their hands. All in violation of American statutes and international treaties.
If you or I or any other American citizen laundered money for narco-terrorists and then armed them with rifles they weren't allowed to purchase, we'd go to prison for a long, long time. The people within the federal agencies who responsible for these extra-legal activities need to go to prison as well.
This isn't a 'Red' or 'Blue' issue, or a matter of liberalism or conservatism; it is a question of justice and the rule of law. These agencies acted with complete disregard for the rule of law in pursuit (or so they claim) of Mexican narco-terrorists, none of whom have yet been apprehended.
If President Obama had foreknowledge of the FBI, ATF and DEA programs that lead up to the murder of Brian Terry, if the President knew about and/or authorized the coverup of his government's participation in Terry's murder and other "black bag jobs," the President of the United States must be impeached and removed from office, and his subordinates prosecuted.
In the United States, no one is above the law, no matter what their rationale. Not even the President of the United States.
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