Suspected shooter in Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry’s murder arrested.

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Heraclio "Laco" Osorio-Arellanes, murder of Brian Terry, Operation Fast and Furious

Heraclio “Laco” Osorio-Arellanes

Heraclio “Laco” Osorio-Arellanes, the suspected shooter of Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry back in 2010 was finally apprehended yesterday thank to as U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force. Osorio-Arellanes who was detained at a ranch at the border of Sinaloa and Chihuahua in Mexico used a firearm supplied by the U. S. government in Operation Fast and Furious.

Fox News by William LaJeunesse

Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, was apprehended by a joint U.S.-Mexico law enforcement task force that included the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals and the Border Patrol Tactical Unit (BORTAC).

A $250,000 reward had been sought for information leading to the arrest of Osorio-Arellanes, who was captured at a ranch on the border of the Mexican states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua. U.S. authorities have said they will seek his extradition….

Four members of the “rip crew” already been sentenced to jail time in the U.S. Manual Osorio-Arellanes was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to first-degree murder in February 2014[…]

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It took six years, three months and a new administration before Osorio-Arellanes was apprehended. One more to go, i.e., Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, is possibly still at large.

Cross-posted on Grumpy Opinions.

House Comm. on Oversight and Government Reform Hearing: Reviewing ATF’s Failures in the Death of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata

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ATF, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, ICE Agent Jaime Zapata, Operation Fast and Furious

ICE Special Agent Jaime Zapata, shot and killed in the line of duty February 15, 2011 after being forced off the road by 10 members of a Mexican drug cartel. (Credit: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

On Thursday, March 9th, the Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing: Reviewing ATF’s Failures in the Death of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata. See footage and information below.

NOTE: Two officers invited to the hearing, William Temple, special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Division, and Ronald Turk, associate deputy director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives were no-shows. House Committee Chairman, Jason Chaffetz has subpoenaed to Special Agent, Temple, and Associate Deputy Director Turk to a hearing or deposition later this month. See my earlier post at my other site, Grumpy Opinions: Chaffetz subpoenas ATF agents who skipped hearing on death of ICE officer.

Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Hearing Date: March 9, 2017 10:00 am 2154 Rayburn HOB
TAKEAWAYS:

• Officials from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) failed to appear at the hearing. Invitations to testify before Congress are not optional. Chairman Chaffetz signed subpoenas to compel the attendance of ATF officials Ronald Turk and William Temple later this month.
• ATF took full responsibility for not investigating straw purchasers who trafficked a firearm that was later used in the attack that killed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and wounded his colleague, Special Agent Victor Avila.
• The inspector general gave further examples of law enforcement agencies not sufficiently communicating with one another.
• ATF is making an effort to work more closely with the U.S. Attorney in order to improve communications during ongoing investigations.
• Chairman Chaffetz requested that ATF work with the courts to reach an agreement to provide documents to Congress sealed in connection with a tobacco churning case.

PURPOSE:

• To examine the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General’s (DOJ OIG) recently-released report regarding the firearms found at the scene of ICE Agent Jaime Zapata’s murder.
• To discuss ATF’s cigarette trafficking practices, including the handling of informants and oversight of revenue-generating operations.

BACKGROUND:

• In 2011, the Los Zetas drug cartel murdered ICE Agent Jaime Zapata using firearms linked to two buyers in Texas. ATF had monitored the two buyers trafficking firearms in 2010 but made no effort to further investigate or arrest the buyers until after Zapata’s death.
• In 2011 and 2012, while investigating Operation Fast and Furious and the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, the Oversight Committee and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) inquired about ATF’s failure to investigate and arrest the Texas traffickers until after the death of Agent Zapata.
• DOJ told Congress both matters had been referred to the DOJ OIG. However, when the DOJ OIG released its September 2012 report confirming Congress’s findings from the bicameral investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, the report did not address Agent Zapata’s death.
• At that time, the Oversight Committee and Sen. Grassley formally requested the DOJ OIG investigate the firearms used in Zapata’s murder; the report was recently issued on March 1, 2017, four and a half years later.

Source: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Suggested reading on the death of Agent Zapata and what is alleged to have unfolded: Agent Zapata by Mary Cuddehe, Atavist Magazine

Cross-posted on Grumpy Opinions.

New Fast and Furious Documents Reveal DOJ’s Efforts to Obstruct Congressional Investigation

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Barack Obama, coverup, Eric Holder, gunrunning, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Jason Chaffetz, Operation Fast and Furious, Scandal

Soldiers stand guard around a presentation of arms captured in arrest of Jaime Gonzalez Duran, alias ‘El Hummer’ in Mexico City in November, 2008.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) sent a memo to Republican Committee members detailing new documents related to Operation Fast and Furious. These documents reveal efforts by senior officials at the Department of Justice to withhold key materials related to the botched gunwalking operation.

Chairman Jason Chaffetz released the following statement on the documents:

“Transparency should not require years of litigation and a court order. These documents illustrate the lengths to which this administration went in order to limit and block access to subpoenaed information. Calculated efforts were made by senior DOJ officials to obstruct Congress. This attempt to prioritize a political agenda ahead of facts is unsettling and unacceptable.”

Background:

The Fast and Furious operation was responsible for allowing approximately 2,000 firearms to illegally flow into the hands of criminals, including Mexican drug cartel associates. On December 14, 2010, Customs and Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, a United States Marine, was killed while on patrol just miles from the Mexican border. The firearms found at the scene were semi-automatic rifles that were allowed to walk as part of Operation Fast and Furious.

Congressional Republicans have investigated Fast and Furious since January 2011. Over the course of the investigation, the Justice Department has provided false information, stonewalled document requests, produced scores of blacked-out pages and duplicate documents, and refused to comply with two congressional subpoenas.

In August 2012, the U.S. House of Representatives Office of General Counsel filed suit against the Justice Department.

On January 19, 2016, United States District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued her opinion and ordered DOJ release documents previously withheld under the President’s executive privilege claim. On April 8, 2016, DOJ complied with the Judge’s order, delivering more than 20,500 pages of documents to the Committee.

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Garland, Texas Jihadist’s Firearm Linked to Operation Fast and Furious

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ATF, Barack Obama, Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Garland Texas, Islamic Terrorist Attack, Muhammad Art and Cartoon Exhibition, Operation Fast and Furious

TheBlaze by Oliver Darcy

According to the L.A. Times, Soofi wanted to purchase a 9-milimeter pistol, but knew prior misdemeanor drug and assault charges would be flagged in the federal screening process. Soofi, thus, went to Lone Wolf Trading Co., a shop known to sell firearms illegally.

The Phoenix gun shop, however, was part of the botched Fast and Furious operation, the L.A. Times reported. Federal authorities were allowing Lone Wolf to sell illegal firearms with the hope of tracing the weapons to drug cartels and smuggling networks….

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Let’s see here. Barack Obama and Eric Holder arming jihadists and complicit in the murders of our border agents and other Americans killed with firearms procured courtesy of the most corrupt administration in the history of the United States. Can we throw the gun runners in prison now or is that line of thinking racist?

LINK:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/08/01/report-shooter-in-garland-texas-attack-purchased-firearm-linked-to-fast-and-furious-operation/