Pssst — heard the one about the lethal scandal that reaches to the upper levels of the Obama administration and may turn out to be bigger than Watergate? A crime in which two American agents have been killed, and which the Justice Department has been furiously trying to cover up for more than 18 months?
If you answered “no,” you’re not alone. The mainstream media have largely ignored the lethal — and most likely deliberate — “gunwalking” operation known as Fast and Furious. The plan, as ridiculous as it sounds, was to knowingly sell weapons to Mexican drug cartels, in hopes of tracing the guns. Of course, our government lost track of them.
With the president’s startling claim last week of executive privilege on behalf of his embattled attorney general, Eric Holder, the story’s now too big to ignore. So here’s what you need to know:
It’s about innocent victims
One of them is Brian Terry, who died at age 40 on Dec. 15, 2010 in Rio Rico, Ariz., just north of Nogales and about 10 miles from the Mexican border. The night before, Terry and his elite Border Patrol unit had encountered a “rip crew” — a Mexican gang that preys on smugglers and illegal immigrants. In the shootout, Terry was mortally wounded by an AK-47 and died the next day.
