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Narco Terrorist Cops To Murder Of US Agent

Los Zetas degenerate Julian Zapata Espinoza has pleaded guilty for his role as a "hit squad commander" in the February 2011 ambush shooting which killed ICE agent Jaime Zapata and wounded his partner as they were driving along a highway in the central Mexican state of San Luis Potosi in a vehicle with U.S. diplomatic tags as reported by Richard A. Serrano for the Los Angeles Times.

The Mexican drug cartels increasingly are targeting U.S. officials on both sides of the border:  last December the narco terrorists intentionally rammed their smuggling panga boat against an approaching Coast Guard inflatable which resulted in the death of Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III and the injury of another guardsman after they fell into the sea off the southern California coast; in August 2012 two CIA officials were injured in a shooting ambush against their U.S. diplomatic vehicle on a highway south of Mexico City; in December 2010 the Sinaloa cartel murdered U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry in southern Arizona; in March 2010 the Juarez cartel whacked U.S. consulate employee Lesley Ann Enriquez and her husband El Paso sheriff's deputy Arthur Redelfs as they were returning home from a child's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez.

Meanwhile, Barack Obama who is charged with securing the border, protecting the people and defending the nation cynically insists that there is no cartel-related spillover violence as he steps over the corpses of federal agents and officials on the blood-soaked ground.  The so-called President would rather enjoy the perks of the Presidency -- golf rounds on private courses, indulgent vacations to exclusive resorts, lavish parties with the stars -- than actually do his job.

Clint Eastwood is right:  Barack Obama is an empty chair.

Further reading that may be of interest:

President Obama Cedes Border To Drug Cartels

Mexican Drug Cartel Kills U.S. Coast Guardsman In Boat Attack Off California Shoreline

The Mexican drug cartels once again have taken deadly aim against U.S. law enforcement.

This time the narco terrorists intentionally rammed their smuggling panga boat against an approaching Coast Guard inflatable which resulted in the death of Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III and the injury of another guardsman after they fell into the sea off the southern California coast as reported by the Los Angeles Times.  Two suspects have been detained.

The narco insurgents from Mexico increasingly are targeting U.S. officials on both sides of the border:  last August two CIA officials were injured in a shooting ambush against their U.S. diplomatic vehicle on a highway south of Mexico City; in Feburary 2011 Los Zetas killed ICE agent Jaime Zapata and wounded his partner who were driving along a highway in the state of San Luis Potosi in a vehicle with U.S. diplomatic tags; in December 2010 the Sinaloa cartel murdered U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry in southern Arizona; in March 2010 the Juarez cartel whacked U.S. consulate employee Lesley Ann Enriquez and her husband El Paso sheriff's deputy Arthur Redelfs as they were returning home from a child's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez.

Meanwhile, President Obama who is charged with securing the border, protecting the people and defending the nation cynically insists that there is no cartel-related spillover violence as he steps over the corpses of federal agents and officials on the blood-soaked ground.

Further reading that may be of interest:

President Obama Cedes Border To Drug Cartels

Mexican Federal Police Ambush U.S. Diplomatic Vehicle; Two American Embassy Employees Injured In Shooting

Last Friday Mexican federal police opened fire from their official vehicle on a U.S. diplomatic vehicle on a highway south of the country's capital of Mexico City, and injured two American embassy employees who were passengers and a Mexican naval captain who was their driver as reported by Tracy Wilkinson for the Los Angeles Times. 

Twelve cops are under investigation for their alleged roles "as suspicions mounted that an organized crime group may have been involved in the attack" as reported by Nicholas Casey and David Lihnow for The Wall Street Journal:  "Reforma, a leading Mexican newspaper, on Sunday quoted a lawyer for the federal policemen and their family members who said prosecutors were preparing charges against the officers including attempted murder, abuse of power and links to organized crime."

The narco insurgents in Mexico increasingly are targeting U.S. officials on both sides of the border:  in March 2010 the Juarez cartel whacked U.S. consulate employee Lesley Ann Enriquez and her husband El Paso sheriff's deputy Arthur Redelfs as they were returning home from a child's birthday party in Ciudad Juarez; in December 2010 the Sinaloa cartel murdered U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry in southern Arizona; and in Feburary 2011 Los Zetas killed ICE agent Jaime Zapata and wounded his partner who were driving along a highway in the state of San Luis Potosi in a vehicle with U.S. diplomatic tags.

Five Suspects Indicted For Brian Terry Murder; Border Agent Killed With Guns Supplied To Mexican Drug Cartels By U.S. Government

The feds have indicted five individuals for their alleged roles in murdering U.S. border agent Brian Terry with assault weapons supplied to the Mexican drug cartels by the ATF pursuant to the gun walking operation known as Fast and Furious as reported by KPHO.  Only one of the suspects is in custody, and the others are at large and believed to be in Mexico.

Last month the U.S. House held Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for thwarting its investigation into the gun walking scheme which inexplicably had no controls in place by which to track the assault weapons sold to the drug cartels.

In responding to the indictment the family of Brian Terry announced the following in a statement

The Terry family once again asks that the Attorney General and the Department of Justice comply with the request for documents made by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee so that all Americans can know who approved of the operation in order that those individuals can be held accountable for their decisions. Agent Terry died as a hero protecting this country; he and his family rightly deserved a full and thorough explanation of how Operation Fast and Furious came to be.

CBS 5 - KPHO

Further reading that may be of interest:

President Obama Shows Contempt For American People By Invoking Executive Privilege Over Fast And Furious Documents To Thwart Investigation

President Obama Shows Contempt For American People By Invoking Executive Privilege Over Fast And Furious Documents To Thwart Investigation

Barack Obama's administration supplied the Mexican drug cartels with thousands of high-powered assault weapons pursuant to an operation dubbed Fast and Furious which have killed over 200 people, including border patrol agent Brian Terry, and now in Nixonian-style all the President's men are engaged in a coverup campaign which includes outright lies and obstructionist schemes before the Congressional committee investigating the bloody mess.

Yesterday a clearly exasperated House Oversight Committee was left with no option but to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt after he refused to produce relevant documents to investigators by relying upon the new-found claim of executive privilege. 

Even though the Congressional inquiry was commenced more than a year ago on the immediate heels of Brian Terry's murder, the White House now cynically asserts that the search for truth is nothing more than election year politics.  Have you no shame, Mr. President?  A federal agent was murdered by mob thugs who were armed by your administration, and your only response to the inquiry is a feeble claim of political witchhunt?  Of course, the White House never cared about Brian Terry's murder in the first instance so it simply cannot understand that others may be motivated by factors other than politics -- you know, things like justice for the fallen agent and compassion for his family.

Indeed, last November Holder admitted that he did not even bother to muster an apology to the Terry family for their loss, and arrogantly -- and wrongly -- told Congress that "it is not fair . . . to assume that the mistakes that happened in Fast & Furious directly led to the death of Agent Terry."

"Mistakes that happened?"  From the start Fast and Furious at the very least was an idiotic operation if not a criminal scheme.  Of course, there's always felony stupid which likely explains President Obama's sudden move to block the investigation by dubiously invoking executive privilege over the presumably damning documents.

No wonder the National Border Patrol Council which represents the nation's 17,000 border agents has called for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder as reported by Jerry Seper for The Washington Times: "Council President George E. McCubbin III, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran himself, described Mr. Holder's actions in the case as 'a slap in the face to all Border Patrol agents who serve this country,' adding that the attorney general has shown 'an utter failure of leadership at the highest levels of government.'"

When the top law enforcement officer in the country no longer has the confidence of the boots on the ground it's time for him to resign.

Border Agents Call For Holder Resignation

The National Border Patrol Council which represents the nation's 17,000 border agents has called for the resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder "for his role in the botched 'Fast and Furious' gunrunning operation that resulted in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent" as reported by Jerry Seper for The Washington Times: "Council President George E. McCubbin III, a 25-year Border Patrol veteran himself, described Mr. Holder's actions in the case as 'a slap in the face to all Border Patrol agents who serve this country,' adding that the attorney general has shown 'an utter failure of leadership at the highest levels of government.'"

More than 200 people, including U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, have been murdered by guns supplied to the Mexican drug cartels by the United States government pursuant to Fast and Furious, and recently forty high-powered assault weapons from the operation were found in the home of a reputed enforcer for the Sinaloa cartel as reported by Richard A. Serrano for the Los Angeles Times: "'These Fast and Furious guns were going to Sinaloans, and they are killing everyone down there,' said one knowledgeable U.S. government source, who asked for anonymity because of the ongoing investigations."

Holder has stonewalled Congress in its investigation into the Fast and Furious debacle in a bid to insulate himself and other Obama appointees from political liability, and threatened with contempt the Attorney General now is scrambling to negotiate an agreement by which he will provide responsive documents as reported by William McCurn for The Wall Street Journal:  "should the House hold him in contempt, Mr. Holder would be left with three choices: standing by as a U.S. attorney begins prosecuting him; directing the U.S. attorney not to prosecute him; or invoking executive privilege to justify not releasing the documents Congress seeks."

06/20/12 UPDATE:  Eric Holder has assured himself a contempt vote after yet again thumbing his nose at the Congressional inquiry as reported by Michael A. Walsh for the New York Post:

The embattled attorney general destroyed what little is left of his credibility yesterday afternoon when he failed to turn over 1,300 subpoenaed and unredacted documents in the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal to House investigators led by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.). * * * Instead, in a 20-minute meeting that Holder himself had requested to stave off today's planned contempt citation vote in Issa's committee, he merely offered to "brief" Issa on their contents.  Holder's insulting, 11th-hour offer came after he' already missed a morning deadline to turn over the documents -- a small percentage of the total number that Congress has demanded as it tries to get to the bottom of the scandal.

Apparently, the attorney general believes that he is above the law.