Wednesday, November 23, 2011

And Holder and Obama and Napolitano and Mueller armed them...

Five illegal immigrants armed with at least two AK-47 semi-automatic assault rifles were hunting for U.S. Border Patrol agents near a desert watering hole known as Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border when a firefight erupted and one U.S. agent was killed, records show.

A now-sealed federal grand jury indictment in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian A. Terry says the Mexican nationals were “patrolling” the rugged desert area of Peck Canyon at about 11:15 p.m. on Dec. 14 with the intent to “intentionally and forcibly assault” Border Patrol agents.
Yeah, not wanting this to get out might explain why this was suddenly sealed, maybe?

On the subject of Gunwalker,
Mr. Moran said he understood the “rationale of working things up the food chain,” as suggested in the Fast and Furious probe, but had no idea how ATF planned to arrest cartel members who ultimately purchased the weapons since the agency lacks jurisdiction south of the border and never advised Mexican authorities about the operation.

“It was a ridiculous idea from the beginning, and it baffles us on how it was ever approved,” he said.
Mr. Moran, you're not considering something: it's only ridiculous if you think it was actually intended as a 'catch bad guys' law-enforcement operation: if you look at it as a 'get guns illegally to Mexico so we can push for more gun laws' it was working great. Until some agents with some integrity and a conscience blew the whistle.

I don't remember reading what arms the team Terry was on were carrying, which is what makes this catch my attention:
Mr. Moran also challenged the use of less-than-lethal s in the shooting incident, saying field agents have been “strong-armed” by the agency’s leadership to use nonlethal weapons. He said they were not appropriate for the incident in which Terry was killed.

“That was no place for beanbag rounds,” he said, noting that the encounter was at least 12 miles inside the U.S. and was carried out by armed men looking specifically to target Border Patrol agents.

CBP has said Terry and the agents with him carried fully loaded sidearms, along with two additional magazines, and were not under orders to use nonlethal ammunition first.
So they only had shotguns- loaded with fucking beanbags- and sidearms? No rifles? In that area? And whose bright God-damned idea was that?
Several of the incursions occurred in the same area where Terry was killed, including a 2005 incident in which two agents were shot and wounded by assailants dressed in black commando-type clothing in what law-enforcement authorities said was a planned ambush. More than 50 rounds were fired at the agents after they spotted the suspected gunmen.

At this point I'm getting so damned mad at the fucking idiots running the Border Patrol it's hard to think straight about this. So the teams are being sent into known dangerous areas with orders to use beanbags first- against people with rifles- and no rifles of their own?
And the miserable little shits who thought up Fast & Furious, and the bastard little order-followers like Newell who ran it day-to-day, helped put arms in the hands of the bad guys.

We need a damned gallows for these people.

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