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FBI Criminal Informant Complicit in Brian Terry's Death
In the growing Fast and Furious fiasco, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder in Peck Canyon, Arizona was previously described as a chance meeting that led to a shootout: an illegal alien "rip crew" working for the Sinaloa cartel was hoping to find other illegal aliens and to rob them at gunpoint. Instead, they stumbled across a Border Patrol unit and murdered Agent Terry.

The rip crew was not hunting illegals, but Border Patrol teams -- with the intention of engaging them in combat.
Last week, the Washington Times offered a new version of the encounter: they reported that the rip crew was not hunting illegals, but Border Patrol teams -- with the intention of engaging them in combat.

Sources now tell PJ Media that neither version of events is accurate: the rip crew was not waiting for a chance encounter with other illegals, nor did the members intend to engage American law enforcement agents.

The rip crew was in Peck Canyon that evening with the intention of stealing money and drugs from a specific shipment of which they had prior knowledge...

The rip crew knew to be in Peck Canyon that December evening because a CI working for the FBI found out about a smuggling run -- from the FBI.
The rip crew knew to be in Peck Canyon that December evening because a CI working for the FBI found out about a smuggling run -- from the FBI. It is not clear if the information was provided intentionally, but a possible motivation for the FBI to provide the information is known to exist: the CI had previously lost a shipment of drugs, and wanted to regain the trust of the cartel with an offering of drugs or money. The other possibility is that the FBI mistakenly allowed the CI to discover the information.

The CI used this information to organize an ambush of the drug convoy. A source tells PJM that the FBI knew from wiretaps that the CI was using their information to set up an ambush.

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) -- through its own CIs and communications intercepts -- was also aware of the planned assault.

Posted by: Beavis 2011-12-01
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