SC Wire: Family of slain Border Patrol agent calls for ‘accountability’

Read Family of slain Border Patrol agent calls for ‘accountability, written by the Chronicle’s Paul M. Ingram and published by Reuters:

(Reuters) - Relatives of a U.S. Border Patrol agent whose murder in the line of duty was linked to a botched U.S. operation to track guns smuggled to Mexico on Monday called for accountability for the government officials who approved the program.

Agent Brian Terry was shot dead in the Arizona borderlands in December 2010. His death was linked to a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, sting operation dubbed “Fast and Furious,” which allowed weapons to slip across the border to Mexico.

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