FBI: Friendly fire likely cause of Border Patrol shooting
Federal investigators believe that the fatal shooting of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Ivie was the result of friendly fire. …
“While it is important to emphasize that the FBI’s investigation is actively continuing, there are strong preliminary indications that the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and the injury to a second agent was the result of an accidental shooting incident involving only the agents,” FBI Special Agent in Charge James L. Turgal Jr. said in a statement. …
A federal law enforcement official familiar with the investigation said Friday that it appears the agents, while responding to a tripped ground sensor near the U.S.- Mexico border early Wednesday, became disoriented and were caught in their own fire.
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By friendly fire do they mean shot directly by another BP agent or by a gun given to Mexican drug dealers by Eric Holder?
Mark1971 on October 5, 2012 at 11:33 PM
I thought boarder agents weren’t allowed to have live rounds? Isn’t that what happened with Agent Terry? He only had bean bags to defend himself with?
jawkneemusic on October 5, 2012 at 11:36 PM
By friendly fire do they mean shot directly by another BP agent or by a gun given to Mexican drug dealers by Eric Holder?
Mark1971 on October 5, 2012 at 11:33 PM
SouthernGent on October 5, 2012 at 11:42 PM
So a gun from Mr holders botched gun control scheme is now friendly fire?
watertown on October 5, 2012 at 11:49 PM
who in their right mind believes anything from these clowns ?
chango butt on October 5, 2012 at 11:50 PM
Just like Ambassador Stevens was killed by film critics…
… and the unemployment rate is now 7.8%.
Seven Percent Solution on October 5, 2012 at 11:51 PM
So a squirrel tripped the sensor, the agents, (having been freed from the beanbags)shot at each other. The border is safe, really it is. Case closed.
kringeesmom on October 5, 2012 at 11:52 PM
Further clarifications will be released mid to late November.
pedestrian on October 5, 2012 at 11:54 PM
Wasn’t the dead agent on a horse? Kind of hard to accidently shoot a guy on a horse or confuse him for a smuggler. What is the other agent’s name?
Buddahpundit on October 5, 2012 at 11:58 PM
And if you like your health insurance, you can keep it.
kringeesmom on October 6, 2012 at 12:10 AM
Right. Our trained agents just got so edgy they shot at each other…..uh huh.
It of course, could not be from rounds fired from guns allowed to walk across the border by Obozo and Holder – because well, they just couldn’t.
Even though the ammo, calipers and weapon platforms are the same.
Right.
And ambassador Stevens was killed by an irate group of protesting youths.
KMC1 on October 6, 2012 at 12:11 AM
Story says there was a third agent who was uninjured. So, what, did he shoot the others? Or stand there while they shot each other? What? There’s a lot missing here.
AndStatistics on October 6, 2012 at 12:20 AM
Thanks for the reminder. When I heard this on the radio this evening it made me furious. I’d maybe have accepted it if they said ONE of them was a victim of friendly fire, but BOTH? That is ‘a bridge too far’.
Obviously, I wasn’t there, But IMHO, it is just more coverups from those who are supposed to protect us trying to make the Punks in charge look less bad.
LegendHasIt on October 6, 2012 at 12:36 AM
So the FBI is Johnny-on-the-spot and has a preliminary assessment on this case already, yet needed weeks to reach Benghazi and only spent 12 hours on scene once there. Something tells me this assessment is being driven by DOJ.
Bitter Clinger on October 6, 2012 at 12:46 AM
Sleazy Eric Holder’s “friends” in the Sinaloa drug cartel, most likely.
viking01 on October 6, 2012 at 12:46 AM
They were hyping the hell out of this report on our local Phoenix news today. I don’t believe it for one millisecond.
JannyMae on October 6, 2012 at 2:57 AM
I don’t anything coming from the media or Obama government.
borg on October 6, 2012 at 3:19 AM
Any soldier could tell you there’s no such thing as “friendly fire.”
No fire is friendly. That’s sad if true.
Red Cloud on October 6, 2012 at 7:14 AM
My first question too. A new dimension to “friendly fire”.
petefrt on October 6, 2012 at 7:18 AM
Nothing to see here. Let’s move on now. Move on.
petefrt on October 6, 2012 at 7:20 AM
The USA today story doesn’t mention the two Mexicans arrested in connection with this. Are they now just witnesses?
LtGenRob on October 6, 2012 at 8:23 AM
Truly.
Whilst Barky is a slimebag and Holder is worse, I do not think they have the power to compel the FBI to tell enormous porkies. The risk of a whistleblower coming out would be far too damaging to even make it worth trying to pull a fast one.
CorporatePiggy on October 6, 2012 at 9:10 AM
So what I take from the FBI information is that for reasons unknown, 3 US Border Patrol agents drew their weapons and opened fire on each other, resulting in 1 dead, 1 wounded, and 1 uninjured.
What I think the FBI wants me to think is that “THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CONNECTION WHATSOEVER BETWEEN THE DEATH OF THIS AGENT, OPERATION FAST AND FURIOUS, OR THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. PLEASE MOVE ON TO THE NEXT NEWS HEADLINE”
BobMbx on October 6, 2012 at 9:43 AM
Well, I guess thats an ok reasoning. Its happened to me many times. Sometimes when I go to these gigantic shopping malls, I can’t remember where I parked, so I feel slightly disoriented..not being able to find my car. Its a scary feeling. I’ve discovered that if I pull out my pistol and fire a few shots at my friends or my ankle or my own ass, it helps.
BobMbx on October 6, 2012 at 9:49 AM
Unfortunately you could be right despite my previous post…
The truth about Waco, which was a state-sponsored massacre, only came out years after the fact and by that point people had already bought all the lies i.e. – it was just a bunch of religious gun nuts who decided to commit suicide en masse. The truth turned out to be very very different.
CorporatePiggy on October 6, 2012 at 9:51 AM
FBI delay getting to Benghazi — that Jimmy Hoffa driveway investigation really sapped their resources.
To their credit, they wrapped Libya up in 12 hours so they could hustle back to the US border ..
Crack team!
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CaveatEmpty on October 6, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Sounds as believable as the unemployment numbers.
Should be easy to verify by ballistic tests.
Why is it taking so long to match the bullet with the rifle? How many agents were there firing their guns?
Mimzey on October 6, 2012 at 10:14 AM