Sharyl Attkisson has a new CBS News article about F&F guns being linked to the murder of ICE agent Jaime Zapata and injured ICE agent Victor Avila. You will recall these two agents were ambushed near Mexico City on their way home to the US. They were not armed, since Mexico does not allow foreign agents to carry weapons. A Texas man, Manuel Barba was sentenced to 100 months for trafficking a gun linked to Zapata's murder.
To make matters worse, Barba had been under surveillance for 6 months before shipping the weapon that killed Zapata to Mexico. ATF made no effort to arrest him or prevent the guns from going to the Zeta Cartel. Barba operated in Texas, further added credence to stories of another sting operation, similar to Fast & Furious in Arizona, that ATF was running and that placed guns in the hands of Mexican cartels.
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A sign of the DOJ's abysmal public relations is that Zapata's family had no idea that Barba was even under arrest. Congressman Blake Farentholt, representative for the Texas constituency where the Zapatas live, is furious at the way DOJ has treated the family. He is also incensed that Eric Holder had not being keeping daily or weekly tabs on developments in the murder of one of his agents. He says it appears that DOJ has generated a "thug mentality" culture within DEA, ATF and DOJ.
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