FTA: We recently passed the seventh anniversary of the death of Brian Terry. The family has been left to wonder why no government actors have been held accountable and it looks like — despite plenty of self-serving noise — efforts in Congress appear to have stalled. Eric Holder is so unconcerned about his contempt charges going nowhere in court that he’s talking about running for president.
The Terry family appreciates that President Donald Trump has his hands busy these days, but ask your help in reminding him that he did promise:
“When I become president I will open the books on Fast and Furious and Brian. God bless your family Kent.’
In the absence of any signs of movement, President Trump should be reminded of that pledge. Fully determining what the Obama administration, Eric Holder’s Justice Department, and State under Hillary Clinton knew about Fast and Furious is clearly in his interests as well as the Terry family’s.
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “In response to your clients’ request dated June 30, 2016… under the Freedom of information Act …the Department has located 25 responsive documents,” a letter dated January 3, 2017 from the Department of State to attorney Stephen Stamboulieh began. “After reviewing these documents, we have determined that 15 may be released in full, 9 may be released in part, and 1 must be denied in full.”
Kent Terry, brother of slain Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and I submitted a FOIA request seeking information on correspondence, documents and the like pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious and State Department interactions with the government of Mexico. There were multiple reasons for filing the request (see the filing by Stamboulieh Law, PLLC, for details), primarily because it explored an area that has been left largely unresolved by official inquiries from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General.
Because of State’s inaction on complying as required by law, we filed suit in August, 2017 “for injunctive and other appropriate relief and seeking the disclosure and release of agency records improperly withheld… “
by David Codrea
