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It was a long time coming but according to the Department of Homeland Security, the gunman who is said to have murdered Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry had finally been captured. “The suspected shooter in the 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry has been arrested…” announced CNN’s Jake Tapper on The Lead Thursday, “38-year-old Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes was taken into custody in Mexico Wednesday, it was part of a joint operation between the two countries.” But despite this positive news, all of the Big Three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) ignored it.
But it’s not hard to figure out why none of them would want to cover this development for a long-awaited justice. It’s because it leads back to one of the first major scandals for their perfect President Obama. “The murder of Terry along the Arizona/Mexico border exposed the failed gun-tracking operation known as ‘Fast and Furious,’ which put in place under the Obama administration,” Tapper recalled as he walked through some of the details of the botched operation:
The operation had allowed known drug traffickers to purchase firearms in hopes of the U.S. government being able to document the illegal transit of weapons, but the ATF lost track of more than 1,000 guns, two of which were recovered at the scene of Terry's killing.
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