Family of Slain Border Agent: ‘Administration Seems More Concerned With Protecting Themselves Than Revealing the Truth’
U.S. Border Agent Brian A. Terry, shot and killed on Dec. 14, 2010, near Rio Rico, Arizona, while trying to catch bandits who target illegal immigrants.
The family of slain U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry strongly criticized President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for withholding information about Operation Fast and Furious, the botched gun-walking program that allowed thousands of guns to end up in the hands of drug cartels; two of the weapons were found at the crime scene where agent Terry was killed in December 2010.
In a statement released on Wednesday, the Terry family said, “Our son lost his life protecting this nation, and it is very disappointing that we are now faced with an administration that seems more concerned with protecting themselves rather than revealing the truth behind Operation of Fast and Furious.”
Operation Fast and Furious, a Justice Department program, began in September 2009 and allowed nearly 2,000 guns to flow into Mexico with the intent of tracking the guns to drug cartel leaders. The operation was halted when two of the guns in the operation were found at the murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
After nearly a full day of debate by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on holding Holder in contempt of Congress, the committee made the Terry family’s statement a part of the congressional record. Before the hearing, President Barack Obama invoked executive privilege to protect some Fast and Furious documents from being released.
The Terry family attorney Pat McGroder issued a statement to the media regarding the Obama administration’s actions.
“Attorney General Eric Holder’s refusal to fully disclose the documents associated with Operation Fast and Furious and President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege serves to compound the tragedy,” the statement said. “It denied the Terry family and the American people the truth. Our son, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was killed by members of a Mexican drug cartel armed with weapons from this failed Justice Department gun trafficking investigation.”
“For more than 18 months we have been asking our federal government for justice and accountability,” the Terry family statement continued. “The documents sought by the House Oversight Committee and associated with Operation Fast and Furious should be produced and turned over to the committee. Our son lost his life protecting this nation, and it is very disappointing that we are now faced with an administration that seems more concerned with protecting themselves rather than revealing the truth behind Operation of Fast and Furious.”
Publius Prime 
The more I read into this the more it appears to be direct intention to subvert the Second Amendment and worthy of an accusation of Treason.
I believe they are trying to hide more than just their intentions to decimate the second ammendment with this gun-running scheme. They probably had a drug-smuggling operation going on on the side, which would keep The Bamster’s political machine flush with campaign cash and him and Eric ‘the Red’ supplied with ‘blow.’ That or something very similar!
Don’t be fooled. It’s clear the president and his administration expected the Mexican drug gangs to use these guns against our citizens, the citizens of Mexico, and our border patrol agents, with the known possibility that they may be killed by these weapons. Did they care? No. Other agents were shut down when they spoke up and said the operation looked dangerous. Did they care? The agents were told to go get another job if they didn’t obey orders and allow these guns to walk. This program was implemented “under the radar” as Obama told Sarah Brady. Done solely to crush the second amendment. A blatant disregard for lives except their own political ones. Communists like Obama and his comrade Holder hate nothing more than armed citizenry. Don’t be fooled. The president and his administration knew who Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata were the day they were killed by these U.S. tax-payer funded illegal weapons.