Sipsey Street Exclusive: Investigators discover I.C.E. Report of Investigation on
seizure of Fast & Furious weapons in Texas in August 2010 SIGNED BY
JAIME ZAPATA!
"The Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the Department of Justice
have long denied that the case of Jaime Zapata had anything to do with
Fast and Furious."
Congressional investigators permitted to view Department of Homeland Security documents related to the Fast and Furious operation have located and seen an Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) Report of Investigation (ROI) from August 2010 describing 80 weapons seized in an arms smuggling interdiction between Phoenix, Arizona and San Antonio, Texas. Of these weapons, the majority (approximately 50) were noted to have come from Operation Fast & Furious in Arizona, purchased by Uriel Patino and Jacob Chambers. The ROI was written and signed by Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent Jaime Zapata, who was shot dead in an ambush at a fake roadblock in San Luis PotosÃ, Mexico on 15 February 2011. At the time of the report, Agent Zapata was assigned to the Laredo office.
Two of the weapons found at the murder scene were later traced back to Texas -- One was purchased in August 2010 near Houston on behalf of accused drug dealer Manuel Gomez Barba, and the other in October 2010 by a Dallas trafficking ring that included Otilio Osorio and his brother Ranferi. Much like Fast and Furious, both groups had been under ATF surveillance for many months, although ATF officials in Texas later denied that any gunwalking happened in their state. United State Senator John Cornyn has pressed Eric Holder and DOJ for details on any gunwalking in Texas. So far, he has been met with denials or silence.
The Department of Homeland Security, ICE and the Department of Justice have long denied that the case of Jaime Zapata had anything to do with Fast and Furious. The discovery of this ROI by Zapata, "puts the lie to that (expletives deleted) by Napolitano and Holder," according on source who spoke with this reporter on conditions of absolute anonymity.
Multiple sources including current and former employees of the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security have confirmed this explosive new revelation in the Fast & Furious investigation. Said one source, "I think (DHS) is covering up something big." He added, "I feel betrayed."
At the time of Agent Zapata's death, President Obama declared "The United States will work with Mexico to bring the assailants to justice." For her part, Janet Napolitano avowed: "Let me be clear: Any act of violence against our ICE personnel — or any DHS personnel — is an attack against all those who serve our nation and put their lives at risk for our safety."
One source indicated his frustration that neither DHS nor the FBI have come under scrutiny for what they know about gunwalking operations and the murders of Agent Zapata and Border Patrol BORTAC Team member Brian Terry.
Said another, "DHS walked away and pretended that this was Holder's problem," adding "If they didn't know, they should have known."
The revelation of the existence of Agent Zapata's August 2010 ROI should serve to bring more scrutiny to Janet Napolitano and her knowledge of gunwalking and the murders of Zapata and Terry, despite her previous denials under oath.
According to sources, both DHS and DOJ are "in a deep panic" that "their carefully contrived cover-up is breaking down," in the words of one.
Early morning inquiries to the offices of Congressman McCaul and Senator Cornyn for comment have not, as yet, been answered. This is not their fault, as I have had to push up the post time for this article out of concern for being scooped by other news organizations which I know are cognizant of this story. Their comments will form the basis of a follow-up story.
(Reporter's note: This may be the most important story I've written this year, and once again I ask my readers to help me get the truth out around the roadblock of the dinosaur media. If you believe that this story is as important as I do, please forward it to your Senators and Congressmen, demanding that they widen the investigations of Obama administration gunwalking to Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security.)
4 comments:
Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano has said....there is no problem on the border. Pres. Obama has said there is not problem on the border. The media is in their hip pocket and seems willing to put any reporters on the ground and investigate the problems related to border security. Again, its an example of the Democratic Party taking the border for granted; feeling secure that the border is controlled by supportive Democrats who will blindly follow the President and the Party.
(its an example of the Democratic Party taking the border for granted)
You used the caps in the wrong place. It's more like democRATtic Party, especially in all of these Browntown blogs.
G. Noory.
The whole gun walking notion was contrived to provide evidence that the Cartels were being armed by guns bought from US dealers. This is proven false, but the Obama adminstratio needed evidence to allow the to push their anti-gun adgenda without tangling with Congress over the whole 2nd. Amendment issue.
The net results is that Terry, Zapata and hundreds of Mexicans were killed with guns that would not have been there but for a attempt by the Obama administration to deceive the American people.
When this scandle is made public at last, it will dwarf Nixon and his Watergate fiasco. In the meantime the HLS, DOJ and now the White House is trying to plug the levee and save their cover up.
Folks who voted for Obama the first time can claim to be idealists, but anybody who would vote for him the second time can make no such claim.
democRATAS LIE
PEOPLE DIE
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