Christina Thompson
Tucson News Now
10/2/2012
One Border Patrol agent has died and another has non-life threatening injuries following a shooting near Naco, according to a Border Patrol spokesperson.
Both agents were assigned to the Brian Terry Station in the Tucson Sector.
The injured agent has been airlifted to a hospital. Names of the agents are being withheld until next of kin has been notified, Border Patrol stated.
The investigation is being led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office.
Related: WH Aide Involved in Fast and Furious Was ‘Suddenly’ Transferred to Iraq; Issa Threatens Subpoena
Kevin O’Reilly, a member of the White House National Security Staff who regularly communicated about Operation Fast and Furious with the Arizona-based ATF agent responsible for running the operation that allowed guns to flow to Mexican drug cartels, was suddenly transferred out of the White House and into Iraq in July 2011.
The transfer took place shortly after the ATF agent had testified in the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee and the White House had provided the committee with a series of emails that O’Reilly and the agent had exchanged while Fast and Furious was underway.
Since then, the White House has declined to allow O’Reilly to be interviewed either by the committee or by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, who conducted the administration’s internal investigation of Fast and Furious. The White House also refused to give the inspector general access to internal White House communications relating to Fast and Furious….
Update: Univision’s bombshell: Fast & Furious not just in Arizona, or Mexico
