Yesterday, the FBI unsealed the indictment charging five men with the murder of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, and offered a $1 million reward for information leading to the arrest of the four fugitives.
David Codrea at The Gun Right’s Examiner noted:
This new development implies the executive privilege-claiming White House and Justice Department do not believe this move will compromise ongoing criminal investigations, a reason given for refusing to turn over subpoenaed documents to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that has resulted in a subsequent contempt of Congress vote against Attorney General Eric Holder.
There were differing opinions on the question of the timing of this by key Republicans on the Oversight and Reform Committee.
GOWDY: I have no reason to suspect that this unsealing of the indictment was calculated to draw attention away from the attorney general, and I think the U.S. attorney in the southern district of California, because that’s who’s prosecuting the case, is entitled to a presumption of good faith until it is suggested or proven otherwise. And I don’t have any reason to suspect the timing of it.
VAN SUSTEREN: So bottom line, everything about this superceding indictment seems perfectly normal, nothing unusual on its face to you, whether timing, who’s bringing it, the content? There’s nothing peculiar about it?
GOWDY: Well, I mean, the thing that’s most unusual is the timing because the indictment was true-billed or delivered last fall, and here it is eight months later and it’s being unsealed. But the explanation that we’re looking for the suspects and that we gave it a good eight-month effort and there’s no reason to keep it secret anymore — I have no reason to cross-examine or to dispute that explanation.
And I’m — you know, maybe I’m biased towards prosecutors, but I’m inclined to give career prosecutors the benefit of the doubt when they’re handling their cases.
But earlier Monday, Darrell Issa condemned the timing when the news broke on Megyn Kelly’s Fox show, America Live:
Rep. Issa told Megyn Kelly, “I applaud what they’re doing, but I condemn the timing. It’s very clear that the timing has everything to do with the House of Representatives holding Eric Holder in contempt for not turning over information.”
He continued, “The Terry family should have seen this attempt to go public and to try to get the murderers of Brian Terry, they should have seen it happen a year ago. For 18 months they’ve known and haven’t done everything they could do to capture these individuals. Very clearly, this is another example of using politics over good policy.”
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Deroy Murdock – Remember Mexican victims of ‘Fast and Furious’
The American people finally have heard of Brian Terry. He is the best-known victim of “Fast and Furious,” the Obama administration’s de facto conventional-weapons proliferation program. Between November 2009 and January 2011, Team Obama arranged for licensed firearms dealers to sell guns to straw buyers, who transferred them to known violent criminals in Mexico. Among these firearms, two AK-47s were found near Rio Rico, Ariz., where suspected smugglers fatally shot Terry, a 40-year-old former Marine, on Dec. 15, 2010.
While Terry epitomizes those whom Fast and Furious has harmed, he is not its sole casualty.
In another Obama administration “gun-walking” escapade, in February 2011 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, members of Los Zetas drug gang ambushed two U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Jaime Zapata, 32, was fatally shot and Victor Avila was wounded.
Largely overlooked is this plan’s calamitous impact on Mexico, its people and U.S.-Mexican relations.
“Our federal government knowingly, willfully, purposefully gave the drug cartels nearly 2,000 weapons — mainly AK-47s — and allowed them to walk,” Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, told NBC News recently. These arms were supposed to lead federal agents in Phoenix to the Mexican thugs who acquired them. Instead, Fast and Furious guns melted into Mexico.
Approximately 300 Mexicans have been killed or wounded by Fast and Furious guns, estimates former Mexican attorney general Victor Humberto Benitez Trevino. Relevant details are scarce. However, at least one case generated enormous headline
s — in Mexico.
Global Post: Mexico shootout: 7 Sinaloa police, 4 gunmen killed in gun battle:
Seven state police officers and four attackers were killed in a shootout in the northwestern state of Sinaloa on Monday, in the latest deadly incident in the country.
Gunmen ambushed the police officers as they returned from the town of Choix, whose municipal police chief was murdered last month, the BBC reported.
One has to wonder if the Mexican cartel cop killers were supplied with weapons via the United States government.
Weasel Zippers: Report: Obama Regime Set to Close Nine Border Patrol Stations Across Four States:
Step 2 of Obama’s new immigration policy.
(FOX News) — The Obama administration is moving to shut down nine Border Patrol stations across four states, triggering a backlash from local law enforcement, members of Congress and Border Patrol agents themselves.
Critics of the move warn the closures will undercut efforts to intercept drug and human traffickers in well-traveled corridors north of the U.S.-Mexico border. Though the affected stations are scattered throughout northern and central Texas, and three other states, the coverage areas still see plenty of illegal immigrant activity — one soon-to-be-shuttered station in Amarillo, Texas, is right in the middle of the I-40 corridor; another in Riverside, Calif., is outside Los Angeles.
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Nice Deb 
Knowing who obama is, I would not put it past him to be so vindictive as to closing these intentionally.
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