THE THIRD GUN
NEW BOOK CLAIMS FBI COVER UP OF THIRD GUN IN MURDER OF BORDER PATROL
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BY: CJ Ciaramella - April 21, 2012 12:26 am
http://freebeacon.com/third-smoking-gun-in-fast-and-furious/
The Department of Justice is using the liberal "watchdog" group Media
Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious
scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in
the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
A new book raises questions as to whether the FBI hid the existence
of a weapon recovered at the scene of murdered U.S. Border Patrol
agent Brian Terry. Conservative commentator and author Katie Pavlich
lays out evidence she says points to a FBI cover-up to protect a
confidential informant in her recently released book, Fast and
Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-up,
In response to an inquiry from the Free Beacon, a Justice Department
spokeswoman said in an email that she "was told to direct your
questions to the FBI, and also to provide you with a link to this
story: http://mediamatters.org/research/201204190011"
The link was to a story at the George Soros-funded Media Matters for
America supposedly refuting many of Pavlich's claims. Media Matters
is a partisan organization whose founder, David Brock, is also
running a pro-Obama super PAC.
In Operation Fast and Furious, federal agents allowed more than 2,000
weapons to be smuggled across the U.S.-Mexican border and into the
hand of violent drug cartels, with the intent of tracking them to
learn more about the cartels.
Two weapons connected to Fast and Furious were discovered at the
murder scene of U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry, who was gunned
down in the Southern Arizona desert in 2010 by five criminals armed
with AK-47s.
However, Pavlich asserts there was a third gun. The book details
three separate pieces of evidence that point to a third weapon being
recovered and then covered up by the FBI and the Justice Department.
Border Patrol agents, who have since been issued gag orders, were
overheard at Terry's funeral discussing the third gun.
"The idea that the border patrol agents were issued gag orders and
not allowed to talk about this is very telling," Pavlich said in an
interview with the Free Beacon.
An email sent less than 12 hours after Terry's death also mentioned
the weapon.
Finally, an audio recording of a discussion between Andre Howard,
owner of Lone Wolf Trading Company, and ATF agent Hope MacAllister
also references a third gun.
The investigation of Fast and Furious revealed that at least six FBI
informants were involved in the operation, as well as an unknown
number of DEA informants. Pavlich claims in her book that a
confidential source told her the FBI hid the third gun from evidence
because it was linked to a confidential informant or the brother of
the informant.
"The reason they're covering up the third gun is because it could
lead to the confidential informant," Pavlich said. "They're
protecting him at the cost of justice to Brian Terry and his family.
I am not an expert on what confidential informants are allowed to get
away with, but I guarantee they're not allowed to kill federal agents."
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