ATF Agent: FBI Played Key Role In Brian Terry's Death
by Debra Heine 27 Dec 2013
John Dodson, the ATF agent who blew the whistle on the Justice Department’s blood-soaked
gun-trafficking operation known as Fast and Furious, told the Arizona Republic
in an interview, Thursday, that the FBI played a key role in events leading to
the 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. His comments to the
paper, augment what he wrote in his new book, The Unarmed Truth - My Fight to
Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious.
Dodson claims that the bandits who
killed Terry were working for FBI operatives
and were tipped by the DEA to be in
the area to do a "drug rip-off."
“I don’t think the (FBI) assets
were part of the rip-off crew,” Dodson said. “I think they were directing the
rip crew.”
Terry belonged to an elite Border
Patrol tactical team sent to a remote area known as Peck
Canyon, roughly a dozen miles
northwest of Nogales,
where violence had escalated because criminal gangs were stealing narcotics
from drug runners known as mules.
He was slain in a shootout with
several bandits. Two assault-type rifles found at the scene were subsequently
traced to Fast and Furious. The operation, based in Phoenix, was launched in 2009 to identify and
prosecute drug lords, but instead allowed guns to be “walked” into the hands of
Mexican criminals.
ATF agents encouraged licensed
firearms dealers in Arizona
to sell more than 2,000 weapons to known “straw buyers” who were working for
cartels. Instead of arresting suspects immediately, surveillance agents took
notes and let them disappear with the guns.
After the Terry slaying and an
attempted cover-up within the Justice Department, Dodson provided evidence and
testimony to Congress. His revelations, later verified by an Office of the
Inspector General’s report, ignited a national scandal over Fast and Furious
that resulted in a congressional contempt citation against Attorney General Eric Holder and the replacement of top
ATF and Justice Department officials.
The reason he said the FBI would
have told criminal informants from a cartel that the shipment was "theirs
for the taking" was to "increase the clout of the FBI informants in
the cartel organization they had penetrated" in order to lead to better
intelligence in the future.
In a recent interview with Cam
Edwards, Dodson said that he believes the purpose of Operation Fast and Furious
was to facilitate gun crimes in order to substantiate the DOJ's claims of an
"iron river of guns" flowing from the US into Mexico.
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