The FBI’s historically high reputation for impeccable integrity has been repeatedly besmirched in the last few decades. Since the death of J. Edgar Hoover the Bureau has never regained that level of public trust. First it was the FBI cover-up of their sniper blowing the brains of Randy Weaver’s wife out as she held her baby in her arms at Ruby Ridge, Idaho (enforcing an exaggerated, minor weapons charge). Then it was Janet Reno’s order -against the advice of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit – to use the bulldozer at Waco, Texas that resulted in the incineration of scores of women and children. Mixed in among those debacles have been repeated reports of mass cheating by students at the FBI Academy and in the field on promotion exams. Not to mention FBI leadership ignoring the repeated warnings by their own agents that terrorists were in the country taking flying lessons and not really caring about landing the planes.
Just as the Muslim-in-Chief in the White House has declared the Muslim Brotherhood’s revolution in the Middle East an “Arab Spring” of popular, democratic movements, he has also declared America’s border with Mexico “secure”. Of course in order for the Middle East to be secure there couldn’t be the appearance of a threat so the repeated requests for increased security were denied by Hillary Clintonovich carrying the propaganda torch for her boss – the only U.S. president to wear a ring with an arabic inscription saying “there is no god but allah” for the last twenty six years.
Anyone with any law enforcement experience was amazed at the rapidity with which the FBI “expedited” the investigation of the shooting death of Border Patrol Agent Ivie. And anyone who has ever worked for the government knows that not even the FBI can conduct a thorough investigation of a fatal shooting in a matter of a few days Forensics just don’t work that quickly. Citizens, be very leery when the FBI – or any government agency – says they “expedited” anything. That usually doesn’t bode well for those under investigation. As Obama’s State Department’s mission is to ensure the success of the “Arab Spring”, the Justice Department’s mission (under which both the FBI and Customs & Border Protection fall) is to ensure that the southern border of the United States is “secure”.
Here are specific reasons why Border Patrol Agent Ivie’s death was not friendly fire – why it is more “Benghazi BS”: The Border Patrol academy trains the same way any municipal or state law enforcement agency does in responding to intrusion alarms. In fact, it is specifically for that reason that so many apply for the job – it qualifies them for any municipal police officer position in the country. Every Border Patrol agent has a mobile radio attached to their gun belts with the microphones hooked to their shoulder straps and they all monitor the same frequency. Every agent on the shift can hear other agents reporting they have arrived on scene. They are never out of communication with dispatch or other agents. The first agent reports to dispatch and the other agents he is on the scene. Other responding agents do the same and they coordinate a search pattern via the radio. When the area is isolated and a suspect is believed in the house/area, the first thing an officer/agent does is declare his presence by yelling who he is. This is followed by the demand to come out into the open with open hands in view. This is called escalation of force. This standard operating procedure is ingrained in every agent’s brain At the first indicator of contact with suspects their response would be “Border Patrol! Hands Up!”. The FBI would have us believe that Agent Ivie and the two other agents immediately started firing their weapons at the first indication of an encounter with the type of -overwhelmingly unarmed- suspects they encounter multiple times every day and night. This characterization of their responses sullies their sterling record of conduct. It means they would have suddenly thrown several months of intense training at the Border Patrol academy and four years of experience out the window and uncharacteristically began hysterically firing at unidentified suspects. This is a major flaw in the FBI’s explanation. Every law enforcement officer/agent in the nation is ingrained with identifying their target AND determining a lethal threat before using deadly force. More so when it’s 70:30 it could be unarmed women and children. With the recent, incredibly unjust, political imprisonment of Agents Ramos and Campeon and at least two more recent incidents in which Border Patrol agents are roasted for defending themselves, the mentality of Agents has been against firing their weapons to avoid going to prison or being fired. If anything, Agent Ivie and the others would have gone to the extreme NOT to have fired their weapons. Nowhere in the FBI statement is there any indication that the agents saw or heard anything to justify using deadly force. It was a bright moon-lit night. The probability of this incident being the first “friendly fire” incident in Border Patrol history is less likely than being struck by lightning and winning the Lotto on the same day. The “friendly fire” story sounds like the Benghazi “video” instigated by someone with no knowledge of police procedure. It would have been very simple for the FBI to state that the bullet(s) that killed Agent Ivie were fired from a service-issued, Baretta Brigadier Model 96 with a .40 caliber, fully-jacketed hollow point without jeopardizing the rest of the investigation – if, in fact, it was friendly fire. And, just like the president of Libya contradicting our State Department and Obama’s lie that there were demonstrations prior to attacking the consulate, the Mexican government publicly announced the arrest of two Mexican men who had conducted the ambush on the agents! It’s a sad state of affairs when Americans give more credence to leaders of third world countries over the word of our own president and elected officicals.
The killing of Agent Ivie is not over. Agent Ivie’s family should demand to see the autopsy report and the statements of the two surviving agents. I hope they contact their Senators and representatives of Utah and demand to see the evidence. If the area where the shooting occurred was such a “high traffic” area, ask to see the infra-red, Full-Motion Video monitored by the dispatcher at the station. And get a copy of the recorded radio transmissions from the agents prior to the shootings. And be QUICK about it because those have a habit of being erased rather quickly. As the congressman on FoxNews said regarding his questioning of witnesses in the consulate attack “If the government will lie to it’s own citizens about this, what else will they lie about?”
