On Tuesday, May 15, 2012, the family of slain Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry, received another slap in the face from President Obama and his Fast and Furious culpable Attorney General. Neither Obama nor Holder has ever offered an apology to the still grieving Terry family. Brian Terry was killed by murderers wielding weapons allowed by the ATF and the DOJ to walk across our southern border. The family of the Fast and Furious victim was insulted this time by stone-cold Obama silence as he signed the unanimously passed Brian A. Terry Memorial Act.
The Brian A. Terry Memorial Act of 2011 formally renamed the U.S. Border Patrol station in Bisbee, Arizona the “Brian A. Terry Border Patrol Station.” The legislation was approved unanimously by both houses of Congress in an unusual show of bipartisanship. President Obama coldly and privately signed it into law on Tuesday without a public word about it and, according to the dailycaller.com, “stuffed it into the middle of a White House press release packed with other announcements not relevant to Terry.” The press release contained no quotes about Agent Terry’s service or his murder. Obama, Eric Holder and White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney maintained their “code of silence” on the tragedy.
President Obama and his chief law enforcement officer have never apologized to the family for the government’s failed Fast and Furious operation which allowed 2,000 guns to walk across our southern international border with Mexico. Obama and Holder have claimed that they “were never informed” about the “dirt” in their “kitchen.” While promising on several occasions to find and punish those responsible for the failed operation, President Obama has allowed his Attorney General to stonewall the House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee’s investigation of the Fast and Furious operation. His Attorney General will soon face Contempt of Congress charges for refusing to turn over 22 categories of subpoenaed Fast and Furious related documents. In 13 of the categories, Holder has provided no documents and in 9 of them he is “far from compliant.”
The Terry family has been looking for answers from the President and his Attorney General ever since Border Patrol and ATF whistleblowers began their efforts to expose the “gunwalking” operation. The Fast and Furious operation has resulted in the deaths of two federal agents and more than 200 Mexican civilians. Every attempt by the family to get information from the government has been stonewalled by Holder’s cold and dispassionate silence. The trial of Manuel Osorio-Arellanes, one Terry’s killers, was sealed from public view. Two or three of the killer’s accomplices were questioned and sent back across the border on the day of the murder. FBI informants and a third gun found at the scene (but never reported) still cloud the murder scene and the cover-up.
In March Brian Terry’s family was “sickened” to learn that the FBI, the DEA and U.S. Attorney personnel were not sharing the information learned from government informants. Had the ATF known that two drug lords (Eduardo and Jesus Miramontes-Varela) targeted by the Fast and Furious operation were actually FBI informants, the failed operation could have been called off. Brian Terry, Jaime Zapata and more than 200 Mexican civilians would still be alive today.
About half of the “walked” Fast and Furious weapons have been recovered to date. There have been at least 11 documented instances in which Fast and Furious weapons have been used in the commission of violent crimes in the U.S., but most have been found at crime scenes in Mexico. Countless lives will be lost before the rest (1,048) of the weapons are found, but the Obama administration doesn’t think the deaths are worth talking about.
Brian Terry died on December 14, 2010. The Obama administration is responsible for Terry’s death, for Jaime Zapata’s death and for the deaths of more than 200 Mexican civilians. President Obama, Eric Holder, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had to know about Operation Fast and Furious. Guns were being allowed to “walk” across an international border contrary to international laws and contrary to ATF and DOJ stated policies.
The cold and bitter silence of this administration reminds one of Fascist dictators who were “ignorant” of the murders committed on their behalf. The Brian Terry family has been grievously wronged by a heartless leader who cares nothing about his promise of “transparency” or his promise to “find and hold accountable” those responsible for Fast and Furious. Obama and Holder will be remembered for Fast and Furious and their concerted cover-up of the deadly, “gunwalking” operation.
We can only hope and pray that our federal court system will offer the Brian Terry family some financial justice in their $25 million wrongful-death claim against the spineless and heartless Obama administration which operates without a conscience and without an ounce of integrity.
HOOYAH!
We wish the Terry family the best of luck! We, the American people, apologize for the cold and heartless indifference of our President and our Attorney General. We extend to you and your family our heartfelt condolences for your loss.
Brian will be remembered as an American hero.
HOOYAH!








