Thread: FAST AND FURIOUS: “WALKED” GRENADE USED IN DEADLY SHOOTOUT WITH MEXICAN POLICE

FAST AND FURIOUS: “WALKED” GRENADE USED IN DEADLY SHOOTOUT WITH MEXICAN POLICE



By: John Hayward
10/17/2013 04:26 PM

There goes that Sharyl Attkisson of CBS News again, doing real reporting on a story the media pronounced dead and gone, five minutes after their pals in the Obama Administration told them it was no big deal…

CBS News has learned of a shocking link between a deadly drug cartel shootout with Mexican police last week and a controversial case in the U.S. The link is one of the grenades used in the violent fight, which killed three policemen and four cartel members and was captured on video by residents in the area.

According to a Justice Department ”Significant Incident Report” filed Tuesday and obtained by CBS News, evidence connects one of the grenades to Jean Baptiste Kingery, an alleged firearms trafficker U.S. officials allowed to operate for years without arresting despite significant evidence that he was moving massive amounts of grenade parts and ammunition to Mexico’s ruthless drug cartels.

The gun battle took place last week in Guadalajara. Authorities say five members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel used at least nine firearms and ten hand grenades against Mexican police. If one of the grenades was supplied with the help of Kingery, as believed, it adds to the toll of lives taken with weapons trafficked by suspects U.S. officials watched but did not stop.

I’ve written about the Kingery case for HUMAN EVENTS before, including a follow-up story in which we learned the ATF let him go after he was caught smuggling grenade parts and 2,000 rounds of ammunition in a spare tire.

In her new report, Attkisson reminds readers that “Mexican authorities finally raided Kingery’s factory and arrested him – they say he confessed to teaching cartel members how to build grenades and convert semi-automatic weapons to automatic.” He was sitting on enough parts to build a thousand grenades at the time. And now it looks like one of his grenades was used in a battle that killed three cops in Mexico.

Attkisson says the Justice Department won’t give her a straight answer about whether they’re trying to extradite Kingery to the United States. That seems like something they should be working on, now that the Great Shutdown Horror is no longer available as a blanket excuse for inaction and obfuscation.

http://www.humanevents.com/2013/10/1...exican-police/

Holder's DOJ Attorneys, Not ATF Agents, Let Grenades Go to Mexican Drug Cartels

Katie Pavlich | Oct 21, 2013

Late last week news broke of a connection between grenades illegally trafficked from the U.S. into Mexico by Jean Baptiste Kingery and the murder of Mexican police officers. Years ago, Kingery was suspected of trafficking parts for grenades into Mexico and then building explosives for cartels.

An incident report detailing a fire fight between Mexican police and cartel members states, "Jalisco State Police Officers murdered during a shooting with members of the Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion in Tepatitlan, Jalisoc, MX. In the late hours of October 10, 2013, officers with the Jalisco State Police engaged in a shooting with members of the cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion in Tepatitlan, Jalisco. During the shooting, three Jalisco State Police Officers were killed, including the third in command of the Police Department, and three others were injured. Elements of the State Police received fire from a .50 caliber rifle and at least 10 hand grenades, the evidence of one being reported as a "Kingery" grenade. It is also being reported that nine firearms were recovered from the scene during the post incident search. ATF MCO is awaiting further information in order to submit urgent trace requests to the National Tracing Center as well as attempting to receive more information from contacts within the Jalisco Police Department."

In the story last week, it was stated ATF agents 'let grenades walk' into Mexico, which is incorrect. In fact, ATF agents had a full confession from Kingery stating that he was supplying grenades to Mexican cartels after trafficking parts to build them once inside the country. ATF agents had plenty of evidence, wanted him prosecuted and even described him as a terrorist.

"At no point did ATF ever knowingly let this guy walk grenades. He never had live grenades while he was under surveillance. The stuff he had is not illegal in the United States. The only time it is illegal is when it's crossing the border," Special Agent Peter Forcelli said. "They were just parts, they weren't whole grenades."

At one point, Kingery was arrested by ATF agents as he tried to cross into Mexico, but the case was dropped by the Department of Justice under orders from former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Emory Hurley.

As a refresher:

"[U.S. Attorney] Emory [Hurley] shat on a couple other significant cases we were working on, including a case on grenades," Forcelli says. "In the grenade case, a suspect named Jean Baptiste Kingery was believed by Forcelli and other agents to be sending grenades out of the country, trafficking parts for grenades into Mexico, and then building explosives for the cartels.

"Their advice was, under no circumstances, do not let him leave the country but, if you catch him leaving the country, we won't prosecute him," Focelli explains. "They tied our hands."

Eventually, Kingery was arrested by ATF agents as he tried to cross into Mexico with grenade parts and components packed in his tires. Forcelli received a full-blown confession from Kingery. The suspect reportedly admitted that he had been making grenades for the cartels and smuggling explosives across an international border. Instead of a prosecution from Burke of Hurley, they dismissed the case and Kingery went free.

"The only hands the U.S. Attorney's Office handcuffed in the Kingery case were the hands of ATF," Forcelli recalls. "In my opinion, dozens of firearms trafficking cases were given a pass by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Arizona."

"Despite the existence of 'probable cause' in many cases, there were no indictments, no prosecutions, and criminals were allowed to walk free. In short, their office policies, in my opinion, helped pave a dangerous path."

ATF agents did their job in trying to stop Kingery and grenade parts, which would eventually be assembled into explosives, from going south into Mexico. Department of Justice attorneys Burke and Hurley set him free and ignored the case for years, resulting in the murders of multiple Mexican police officers last week. Kingery is now being held and prosecuted in Mexico by Mexican authorities after his grenade mill and factory was located near Mazatlan. After a search warrant was executed, authorities found Kingery had trafficked enough material to build 800-1000 grenades. He's facing 40 years in a Mexican prison.

The Office of the Inspector General is conducting an investigation into how the Kingery case was handled, it's expected to be released soon.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepa...rtels-n1728756

FAST AND FURIOUS: “WALKED” GRENADE USED IN DEADLY SHOOTOUT WITH MEXICAN POLICE

State Sponsored Terrorism ... that's the effect... to create Terror and Fear

Any Person or Entity Involved needs to be Arrested and Put on Trial by the Country of Mexico, the Citizens of Mexico, the World Court and ALL 50 States Attorney Generals

As a Side Bar: There is nothing wrong with Trials as you get to provide a Defense to ALL Charges; Let the Trials Begin

Obama’s DOJ Giving Grenades To Drug Cartels

OCTOBER 23, 2013 BY NEWSEDITOR 4 COMMENTS

Obama Admin allows an arms trafficker to ship grenades out of the U.S. to the Mexican Drug Cartels; now they are linked to more deaths.



http://www.westernjournalism.com/oba...-drug-cartels/

Wednesday, 23 October 2013 15:10 Guns and Grenades for Cartels; Firing Squad for Whistleblowers

Written by Alex Newman






As the Obama administration and the embattled Justice Department struggle to cover up details of the “Fast and Furious” gun-trafficking scandal, the officials at the center of the uproar are back in the headlines following exposure of explosive and deadly new outrages. First, government whistleblowers were threatened with execution in a training manual — supposedly as a “joke,” according to officials. Shortly after that, the administration again found itself in the midst of a political firestorm after revelations of alleged federal “grenade walking” surfaced in the national media when police in Mexico were killed. Even top U.S. lawmakers suspect the scheme was aimed at bolstering attacks on the Second Amendment.

While seemingly separate, the grenade scandal is apparently linked in several ways to the Obama administration’s “Fast and Furious” program. In Fast and Furious, under the guise of “investigating” criminals — the two drug lords supposedly being “investigated” were already on the FBI payroll — the Department of Justice put thousands of guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Now, the same U.S. attorney and federal bureaucracy that oversaw the arming of criminal syndicates in Mexico are at the center of what CBS News and other media outlets are describing as a “grenade-walking” scandal.

According to official documents and the CBS story by investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, one of the grenades used in a recent battle that killed three Mexican police officers was supplied by a weapons trafficker who was allowed to operate with impunity by U.S. officials for years — the same bureaucrats who oversaw Fast and Furious, in fact. Headlined “Deadly drug cartel shootout with Mexico police linked to ‘grenade-walking’ scandal,” the CBS article cites a Justice Department “Significant Incident Report” linking Jean Baptiste Kingery to the deadly explosive device.

Kingery, the CBS article points out, was allegedly moving huge amounts of weaponry and parts into Mexico for cartels — all under the watchful eye of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder’s DOJ. After being arrested by ATF agents trying to smuggle grenade parts across the border into Mexico, Kingery was reportedly released under orders from senior Justice Department officials involved in Fast and Furious: former U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke and former Assistant U.S. Attorney Emory Hurley.

Unsurprisingly, the alleged weapons trafficker appears to have continued operations following his DOJ-ordered release, helping to manufacture machine guns and explosives for cartels. ATF originally told CBS that it had “no information” about the connection between Kingery and a grenade used in the battle that killed Mexican police. That false claim, however, was entirely debunked in the official DOJ report obtained by CBS and now available online for anyone to read.

“Elements of the State Police received fire from a .50 caliber rifle and at least 10 hand grenades, the evidence of one being reported as a ‘Kingery’ grenade,” explains the federal report detailing the fierce battle between Mexican police and drug cartel operatives in Guadalajara earlier this month. It was not immediately clear whether any of the guns involved in the firefight were from Fast and Furious because they had not yet been traced.

Kingery was reportedly being monitored by U.S. officials since at least 2009, and despite protests by ATF agents who wanted to arrest him, he was allowed to disappear across the border with weapons parts. In 2010, Kingery was arrested by federal agents while trying to smuggle more explosive-device materials into Mexico, but the Fast and Furious-linked DOJ officials ordered him released, claiming they could not build a case. Kingery was eventually arrested by authorities in Mexico after they uncovered a weapons factory he was involved with.

Unnamed sources close to the investigation told CBS that the murder of Mexican police with the Kingery grenade was just the latest example of the ongoing carnage resulting from the administration's ploy to facilitate the arming of Mexican drug cartels. Hundreds of Mexicans and at least two U.S. law-enforcement officers have been murdered with Obama administration Fast and Furious guns. Both the U.S. and Mexican governments, however, are trying to keep the soaring death toll quiet, the source added.

It is not clear why the Justice Department would allow a weapons-trafficker caught in the act to go free. The DOJ inspector general is already supposedly investigating the conduct of officials in the case. However, as The New American has been reporting for years, drug traffickers and officials on both sides of the border have said that assorted U.S. alphabet-soup agencies are cooperating with certain cartels — allowing them to smuggle drugs, weapons, assassins, and more unmolested. Official documents also revealed that the Obama administration was plotting to use Fast and Furious-linked violence to push more assaults on gun rights.

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) is among those who suspect that administration officials were deliberately facilitating the weapons trafficking in a criminal bid to support attacks on the Second Amendment. “These aren't the only deaths that undoubtedly will come from weapons being allowed to walk and an individual allowed to escape justice for more than 18 months after he was in our hands and released,” the senior Republican was quoted as saying by Fox News, comparing the grenade scandal to Fast and Furious.

“When you have the attorney general's own offices being informed about a very dangerous person exporting hand grenades and converting AK-47s into machine guns and they let him continue as part of not, Fast and Furious, but a completely separate failure, I think what you see is an administration that I'm beginning to think really did want to let bad things happen in hopes they would get [an] assault weapons ban,” continued Issa, a leader in ongoing congressional probes about Fast and Furious, as well as holding disgraced Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt for refusing to hand over subpoenaed documents. “The dots are being connected more and more to these kinds of actions.”

While Mexican cartels (and even al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Libya and Syria) were receiving heavy weapons courtesy of U.S. taxpayers and the Obama administration, brave whistleblowers who expose the criminality to Congress or the media were being threatened with “consequences” — and even a gruesome death. Already, criticism of Obama's "war on whistleblowers" was reaching a crescendo: The administration was under fire for unlawfully thumbing its nose at congressional requests for Fast and Furious documents, lying under oath, retaliating against whistleblowers, warning agents of “consequences” for blowing the whistle, attempting to censor one of the Fast and Furious whistleblowers by blocking publication of his book, and more.

Last week, however, fresh revelations surrounding the efforts by the administration to silence honest government agents who blow the whistle took an even darker turn toward the openly macabre. In a “National Security Information” manual for federal agents obtained by the Washington Times, a photo of a firing squad presumably aimed at intimidating whistleblowers was blasted by critics and agents as an undisguised attack on the First Amendment and essential efforts to expose government criminality from the inside.

http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/16792-guns-and-grenades-for-cartels-firing-squad-for-whistleblowers

Officials with the Justice Department claimed it was all just a “joke” and that they were not aware of agents who considered it offensive. Whistleblower advocates and embattled federal agents who are under administration orders to snitch on each other, however, failed to see the humor in a firing squad. National Whistleblower Center Executive Director Stephen Kohn, for example, told the Times that the DOJ had forgotten about the First Amendment and that the image could scare employees into self-censorship.

“This is a campaign to silence and intimidate whistleblowers and what is the most troubling part of this aggressive campaign, is that the Justice Department has completely ignored the First Amendment,” Kohn explained, noting that the Supreme Court has upheld the rights of government employees to share information with the press. The firing-squad photo in the manual, he added, “would have a chilling effect on legitimate speech. And some of the rhetoric used against whistleblowers could be construed as inciting to violence because they’ve turned up the rhetoric.”

Considering the lawless activities of ATF and DOJ bosses — as well as the lack of constitutional authority for numerous out-of-control federal agencies to even exist — now would be an excellent opportunity for Congress to start abolishing and defunding entire federal outfits. Holder and Obama are currently abusing their positions to conceal information from Congress and, in the attorney general’s case, escape prosecution for criminal contempt and possibly even perjury. However, with the scandals and the body count continuing to mount, critics say it is time for real accountability. The status quo — an administration providing guns to murderous criminals and terrorists while attacking whistleblowers and unalienable rights — cannot go on.

Alex Newman is a correspondent for The New American, covering economics, politics, and more. He can be reached at anewman@thenewamerican.com.


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http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/16792-guns-and-grenades-for-cartels-firing-squad-for-whistleblowers

Grenade Walking a New Twist

• International

October 21, 2013

(CBS) There’s a new twist in the government’s “gunwalking” scandal involving an even more dangerous weapon: grenades.
CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson, who has reported on this story from the beginning, said on “The Early Show” that the investigation into the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)’s so-called “Fast and Furious” operation branches out to a case involving grenades. Sources tell her a suspect was left to traffic and manufacture them for Mexican drug cartels.
Police say Jean Baptiste Kingery, a U.S. citizen, was a veritable grenade machine. He’s accused of smuggling parts for as many as 2,000 grenades into Mexico for killer drug cartels — sometimes under the direct watch of U.S. law enforcement.
For more on this investigation, visit CBS Investigates.
Law enforcement sources say Kingery could have been prosecuted in the U.S. twice for violating export control laws, but that, each time, prosecutors in Arizona refused to make a case.
Grenades are weapons-of-choice for the cartels. An attack on Aug. 25 in a Monterrey, Mexico casino killed 53 people.
Sources tell CBS News that, in January 2010, ATF had Kingery under surveillance after he bought about 50 grenade bodies and headed to Mexico. But they say prosecutors wouldn’t agree to make a case. So, as ATF agents looked on, Kingery and the grenade parts crossed the border — and simply disappeared.
Six months later, Kingery allegedly got caught leaving the U.S. for Mexico with 114 disassembled grenades in a tire. One ATF agent told investigators he literally begged prosecutors to keep Kingery in custody this time, fearing he was supplying narco-terrorists, but was again ordered to let Kingery go.
The prosecutors — already the target of controversy for overseeing “Fast and Furious,” wouldn’t comment on the grenades case. U.S. Attorney Dennis Burke recently resigned and his assistant, Emory Hurley, has been transferred. Sources say Hurley is the one who let Kingery go, saying grenade parts are “novelty items” and the case “lacked jury appeal.”
Attkisson added on “The Early Show” that, in August, Mexican authorities raided Kingery’s stash house and factory, finding materials for 1,000 grenades. He was charged with trafficking and allegedly admitted not only to making grenades, but also to teaching cartels how to make them, as well as helping cartel members convert semi-automatic rifles to fully-automatic. As one source put it: There’s no telling how much damage Kingery did in the year-and-a-half since he was first let go.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500202_162-20120395.html


http://thehoustonfreethinkers.com/gr...g-a-new-twist/