Fast and Furious Cover-Up? Case Files on Border Agent Brian Terry’s Murder Have Disappeared

The cover-up continues. Holder lies about his knowledge of the gun trafficking scheme. A third gun found at Agent Terry’s murder scene is “lost.” Now the case files on the murder are missing.

The Arizona Daily Star. reports:

The case against the alleged killers of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry has disappeared from federal court records, apparently sealed by a federal judge.

In May, federal prosecutors won an indictment against Manuel Osorio-Arellanes and others, and they announced it with a press release. Only Osorio-Arellanes’ name was visible in the indictment, but there were blacked-out words where other defendants’ names go.

Osorio-Arellanes was charged with second-degree murder and was not considered the likely shooter. He had been wounded during the gunfight that left Terry dead.

But in the ensuing months, the case disappeared from court records.

Why? Nobody is saying.

Asked about the case, Debra Hartman, spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego, which is prosecuting the case, said via email: “Yes, our office is handling the case and can’t comment further.”

Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council’s local 2544, said agents have grown frustrated with the lack of transparency in the case.

First, he said, there was the long silence surrounding the origins of the assault rifles discovered at the scene, eventually revealed to have been set loose into the community as part of a federal firearms investigation. Now there’s this: a criminal investigation that has disappeared from public view.

The FBI “lost” one of the three guns and most believe the “lost” gun is the one used to kill Agent Terry. Sounds like the government is covering up and in cover-your-ass mode.

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