Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie was murdered near Naco, AZ while investigating a tripped sensor. He and two other agents were on horseback, because the area is federal land and no vehicles are allowed on wilderness lands. The environment is apparently
Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie has not been dead for 72 hours, but that is apparently enough time for the ACLU to attack the violence caused by………border patrol agents. Yes, in response to the tragic death of Agent Ivie the
The ATF’s Operation Fast and Furious allowed over 2,000 guns to walk into the hands of already dangerous Mexican drug cartels. The agency made no attempt to interdict them. People used the guns to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian and
Operation Fast & Furious whistleblower Special Agent John Dodson sent a letter to Fortune Magazine through his lawyer, Robert Driscoll, and requested they retract the smears against him in Katherine Eban’s June 27 article. Agent Dodson was the first to
Attorney General Eric Holder was awarded the Congressional Black Caucus’s Chair Award last Saturday at the Phoenix Awards Dinner in Washington, DC. In her keynote speech for the event, First Lady Michelle Obama gushed over Mr. Holder’s “outstanding contributions to our
Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s Fast and Furious report is in and numerous DOJ and ATF officials are criticized and blamed in it. Former Deputy Attorney General Gary Grindler, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer who heads the criminal division, Deputy Assistant
Authorities have found guns from Operation Fast and Furious in Columbia in August. They were confiscated in a raid on “Oficina de Envigado” leader Ericson Vargas, known as “Sebastian.” “Two rifles that were seized in February with ‘Frank’, the brother of Sebastian
The Republican Party recently ratified their party platform and used the occasion to include a condemnation of Operation Fast & Furious. Fast & Furious was a Department of Justice operation where the ATF allowed over 2,000 guns to walk into
Attorney General Eric Holder met with the survivors of the tragic Tucson shooting from January 2011 to discuss stricter gun laws. Twelve people survived, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and six others died. There was a tragedy a month before —
TRES MARIAS, Mexico (Reuters) – Mexican federal police shot and wounded two CIA operatives last week, security sources said, in an apparently deliberate attack that could hurt U.S.-Mexico cooperation in their war against drug cartels. The two experienced officers were
The long awaited Inspector General’s report on Operation Fast & Furious has been delivered to Attorney General Eric Holder, ATF, and the Department of Justice. Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa sent a letter to Inspector General Michael Horowitz asking him
The government continues to claim the southern border is secure, yet many who live along the border regions disagree. The latest is Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County, AZ and he provides Mary Ramirez at The Daily Caller with some
ATF’s former Deputy Assistant Director for Field Operations, William McMahon, has been found double dipping his chip into the salsa. The man who had a significant role in Operation Fast & Furious is still fully employed by the ATF, while
Remember when Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano claimed the Southwest border is more secure than it’s ever been? One county in Texas may be manipulating their crime statistics to receive more taxpayer funded federal grants. Hidalgo County,Texas is
The House Oversight Committee will file a civil contempt suit against Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday in an attempt to force the release of Operation Fast & Furious documents. Fast & Furious was the gun walking scheme in which
Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry’s 42nd birthday is tomorrow. He’s not with us, but we can still wish him a happy birthday! The Honor Brian Terry Foundation has set up a virtual birthday card for everyone to sign. Agent Terry
The Justice Department created a position to protect whistleblowers. The “Whistleblower Ombudsman” is the first one of its kind and comes in the wake of blowback from Operation Fast & Furious. Fast & Furious was a gunwalking scheme out of
Jesus Vicente Zambada-Niebla, the Sinaloa Cartel’s logistics coordinator, is making some serious allegations against the US government. He says Operation Fast & Furious is not what it appears to be. Fast & Furious was a gunwalking scheme set up by
Deroy Murdock is right. America needs to remember how Operation Fast & Furious has affected Mexico. Operation Fast & Furious was a scheme the Department of Justice used to sell state of the art assault weapons to straw purchasers who
William Hoover has resigned as Deputy Director from the ATF because of the scathing report put out by Republicans detailing his role in Operation Fast & Furious. Mr. Hoover stood by and allowed guns to keep walking to Mexican drug
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told the House Homeland Security Committee that she can confirm terrorists enter America through the Mexican border. Arizona Representative Ron Barber asked Ms. Napolitano, “As you know, Madam Secretary, there have been anecdotal
In a stunning development, President-elect Enrique Peña and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who won control of Mexico’s government on July 1st, moved to dissolve the Agencia Federal de Investigación (AFI). Modeled after the United States FBI, the AFI was
At a California conference on international crime held earlier this week, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt relayed details of a visit he’d recently made to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and of the talks he’d had with civic leaders while there. His
Bill Conroy’s article on Operation Fast & Furious in the Baltimore Post-Examiner is an unorganized, uninformed mess. In an attempt to pin the Fast & Furious scandal on George W. Bush, Conroy reveals he does not know the difference between
The violently brutal drug war in Mexico has killed more than 55,000 people during Felipe Calderon’s presidency, according to Reuters, and that is the what newly-elected Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto will inherit when he is sworn in in December.
Mexico’s presidential election is over, and the early results reveal that the winner is Enrique Pena Nieto, the leader of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, which ruled Mexico for 71 years until 2000. Pena Nieto received 38 percent of the vote,
CNN Contributor LZ Granderson thinks we shouldn’t be “nosy” about Operation Fast and Furious–that we don’t want or need to know the gritty details about the ATF’s gunwalking operation. To Mr. Granderson an operation like Fast & Furious is “very
Back in 2009, I was in Del Rio, Texas, attending a Texas Border Sherriff’s Coaliton conference. During one particular Q and A session, the Obama liaison from the Department of Homeland Security kept focusing on stopping the southern flow of
Actresses Salma Hayek and Blake Lively stopped by the set of Good Morning America on Wednesday to promote their new movie, “Savages.” “Savages,” in theatres July 6th, goes into the gritty details behind the Mexican drug cartels and their
Operation Fast & Furious was a program in which the ATF pressured gun shop owners to sell guns to straw purchasers, knowing there was a high probability they’d land in the hands of drug cartels. They made no effort to
Reckoning day is quickly approaching for the debacle known as Fast and Furious – not soon enough for the family of CBP Agent Brian Terry and many other victims of the doomed federal gun sting operation – but it will come. People
What other license to violate societal norms can the Democratic Party endorse? Now it’s drugs. Texas Democrats have joined with other supporters of legalizing marijuana in urging the federal government to decriminalize the drug. In the party’s platform, the Democrats
By PORFIRIO IBARRA RAMIREZAssociated PressMONTERREY, MexicoForty-nine decapitated and mutilated bodies were found Sunday dumped on a highway connecting the northern Mexican metropolis of Monterrey to the U.S. border in what appears to be the latest blow in an escalating war
The filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated documentary “Waco: The Rules of Engagement” is gearing up to shed light on Operation: Fast and Furious. Colorado-based Michael McNulty has been watching the media give scant attention to the scandal, one which involves the
A section of the draft of contempt charges against Attorney General Eric Holder is dedicated to explaining how Fast & Furious branches off into different departments within the Department of Justice (DOJ). While most know about the operation being based
Democrats are getting desperate when it comes to Operation Fast and Furious. They will do anything to deflect from the fact that people using the guns that Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice “walked” across the border to murder
From Chris Chocola, President, Club for Growth: All three received subsidies from the Export-Import Bank…The Export-Import Bank is nothing more than a fund for corporate welfare backed by the American taxpayer. It’s time for Congress to shut down the Export-Import
Katie Pavlich’s new book, “Fast and Furious,” assembles the devastating evidence thatimplicates the Obama administration for its botched gun-walking operation and ensuing coverup to mislead Congress and the American people. Few journalists have devoted as much time reporting on Fast
In El Paso, Texas, U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ricardo Montalvo has been arrested and charged with attempting to smuggle guns and ammunition into Mexico. More specifically, he’s been accused of trying to smuggle the weapons to the Mexican cartel. His
Matthew Boyle observes that the Eric Holder tape released by Breitbart.com today provides the motive underlying the Fast and Furious scandal, in which the Attorney General apparently gave the go-ahead to an operation that funneled guns to the drug cartels
