OPENING UP FAST AND FURIOUS
USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Kent Terry, the brother of slain US Customs and Border Protection agent Brian Terry, joined in a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) request on the Department of State,” Stamboulieh Law announced in a media advisory. Terry, along with this correspondent, is seeking information on correspondence, documents and the like pertaining to Operation Fast and Furious and State Department interactions with the government of Mexico.
There are multiple reasons for filing the request, primarily because it explores 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. Word from ATF’s attaché in Mexico during the early stages of the investigation was that the Mexican government as well as his office had been kept in the dark. As early as January 6, 2011, information reported from whistleblower sources said:
The ATF office in Mexico was denied permission to share this information with their Mexican counterparts. Believing this was wrong, they went over the heads of the Phoenix office and requested permission directly from headquarters in DC. The higher-ups sided with the Phoenix decision to withhold the information from Mexican authorities.
The essentials of that were essentially corroborated in a March 25, 2011 CBS News report by Sharyl Attkisson.
https://www.ammoland.com/2016/07/brother-slain-border-patrol-agent-joins-fast-furious-foia-state-department/