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Federal Judge Reggie Walton declared a mistrial today in the trial of baseball legend Roger Clemens. A hearing will be held later to determine if the Justice Department can bring this case to trial again or not. Clemens was charged with lying to Congress about his alleged use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs.   Read more »

Washington, D.C. – House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas), Monday, criticized the Obama administration’s decision to impose new reporting requirements for gun sales in states along the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Monday's announcement follows months of controversy over the ATF’s Fast and Furious program that allowed guns to be trafficked into Mexico without any way of preventing the guns from being used for illegal activity. One of the guns was used in the shooting death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. It is the height of hypocrisy for the Obama administration to restrict the gun rights of border state citizens,

In an exclusive interview with TexasGOPVote, US Representative Ted Poe (R-TX 2nd CD) talks with Bob Price of US Border Watch and TexasGOPVote about a variety of topics including the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' (BATFE, ATF) bungling of Operation Gunrunner leading to the deaths of   Read more »

The murder of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and the ATF's bungling of "Project Gunrunner" have finally caught the attention of the mainstream media (MSM) or at least that of CBS News.   Read more »

The FBI announced today, the arrest of Saudi national, Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari on a federal charge of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction.  One of the potential targets in this plot was the residence of former President of the United States, George W. Bush.  My contact at the FBI, Mark White, told me this morning that Aldawsari is in the United States legally on a current student visa.   Read more »

News just in from the US Attorney's office in Phoenix about suspects in the US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry's murder.  In a statement from US Attorney's spokesman Robbie Sherwood, two suspects have already pled guilty pleas to charges of illegal entry and will be deported to Mexico.  A third suspect is expected to do the same thing tomorrow.

The statement reads:   Read more »

See also updated post with subsequent information about this case: US Attorney to deport three suspects in Brian Terry murder, getting witnesses out of town?

In the vacuum of information about the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry rumors grow like mushrooms in dark moist soil. One of these rumors is that Agent Terry may have been killed by accident during the nighttime firefight that took his life.  In a conversation with Phoenix FBI Spokesman,

As we approach the two month anniversary of the murder of US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry serious controversies are coming out of this case. There are questions the family of Brian Terry deserves answers to. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa is hot on the trail of this story. This week, Sen. Grassley sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder rebutting a previous letter of denial from Assistant Attorney General Ronald Weich.

The exchange of letters between the Senator, the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firarms and Explosives) and the AAG were previously covered by TexasGOPVote.com.  In the letter from AAG Weich to Sen. Grassley, Weich denied any involvement

It has been nearly two months since US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was senselessly murdered in the darkness of the Arizona desert by Mexican bandits. Agent Terry was part of an elite BORTAC team assigned to patrol this region in search of these bandits who have been preying on illegal immigrants and drug dealers. The BORTAC team was ambushed by the bandits and Agent Terry was shot in the back and died from his wounds. Some serious questions are being raised by Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and many others

A murderer in Tucson Arizona shot 19 people, and killed 5. One of the people shot in the head was U.S. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. At the time of this writing she is alive.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/
2011/01/08/20110108arizona-giffords-brk.html

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/08/arizona.
shooting/index.html?hpt=T1&iref=BN1

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/08/arizona-congresswoman-reportedly-shot-public-event/

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40978517/ns/politics/

U.S. Federal Judge John Roll was killed.   Read more »