Terry family wants criminal charges against officials responsible for Fast and Furious

Someone has been charged with Terry’s murder — an illegal immigrant — but the identity of that person has not been released publicly. The case filed has been sealed as well. When asked last Thursday if he would release the name of the illegal immigrant who has been charged with Terry’s murder, Holder said he would not in order to avoid risking any open cases. When Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King asked Holder if he could release the name of the individual charged with Terry’s murder to House Judiciary Committee members in executive session, which would have been a private conversation between certain committee members and Holder, Holder refused.

Though the case originated in the Arizona U.S. Attorney’s office, it has since been moved to the San Diego U.S. Attorney’s office to ensure it’s treated fairly. McGroder said the family wants to thank the San Diego U.S. Attorney, Laura Duffy, for what they have considered more than fair treatment. “The family has filed for and has received victims’ rights status in the murder case,” McGroder said. “The government is opposing their attempt to get victims’ rights status in the straw purchasing prosecutions. I think the family would tell you that, since the prosecution has been reassigned to U.S. Attorney Duffy in San Diego, that the windows are open, the light is shining in and the Terry family has full faith and confidence in Ms. Duffy and her prosecutorial staff.”

McGroder said that though Terry’s murder case has been sealed, the family is “fine” with that because of “the communication between the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Terry family.”

Though the family still doesn’t believe justice has been done, McGroder said they have confidence it will be. The family trusts Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley and House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, he said. McGroder said the family is hopeful this will come to an end soon, but the family is “trying to get through the holidays right now and mourn the death of Brian and we’ll certainly take a second look after the first of the year.”

“I think it’s been a very turbulent year for the family. Keep in mind that they’re starting with the death of Brian and dealing with that and then dealing with initial information that was probably inaccurate, perhaps misleading, and then having the whistleblowers, the ATF whistleblowers coming forward, expressing their disgust at the Fast and Furious operation,” McGroder said. “So, I think the Terry family is breathing a little easier, but still they feel in their heart that all the information surrounding the totality of the circumstances around Fast and Furious and how these two guns were found at the murder scene and whether these guns were involved and the results of the ballistic reports and things of that nature — that information, a lot of that information — is still yet to come out.”

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