Joe Saunders
BizPac Review
2/6/2014
The brother of the Border Patrol agent who died during a gunfight with smugglers armed with weapons that were part of the botched Fast and Furious “gun-walking” operation has written a scathing letter to Attorney General Eric Holder demanding to know when someone will answer for Brian Terry’s blood.
In the letter excerpted by Breitbart.com, Kent Terry is clearly frustrated that after more than four years Holder remains unable – or unwilling – to hold anyone in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms responsible for his brother’s death.
“It is shocking to know that the Attorney General of the United States had no knowledge or was not made aware of Fast and Furious until after the death of my brother, Brian Terry,” Terry writes.
Fast and Furious is in danger of being the forgotten scandal of the Obama administration, eclipsed by the administration’s distortions – for political purposes – of the terrorist attack on Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservative groups and, of course, the continuing meltdown of Obamacare.
But Kent Terry is trying to keep the operation, which allowed about 2,000 guns to be sold to straw purchasers suspected of ties to Mexican drug cartels, in the public eye. The ATF lost track of more than 1,000 of the weapons, including two that turned up at the scene of Brian Terry’s death in December 2010…
The article continues at BizPac Review.
Related: GOP sues to force Obama, Holder compliance on Fast and Furious. Executive privilege at issue
…“By stonewalling Congress and ignoring a contempt order, the Justice Department has left the House no choice but to take legal action so we can get to the bottom of the Fast and Furious operation that cost border Agent Brian Terry his life,” Mr. Boehner said.
“After providing — then retracting — inaccurate information to Congress, Attorney General Holder has gone to extraordinary lengths to block access to subpoenaed documents and deny the efforts of the Terry family to get the truth,” he said.
“The White House has been complicit in this effort to hide the truth by making executive privilege claims that have no merit, which is why today’s action is necessary,” the Ohio Republican said, adding that a bipartisan vote by the House to hold Mr. Holder in contempt “made clear that the Obama administration owes the Terry family and the American people the truth.”…
