Since 2006, 48,000-plus innocent people have been murdered in Mexico's drug cartel wars. In 2010, in the Tucson area alone, 130 victims have been attributed to the undeclared border war of illegal immigrants and drug smuggling.
On Feb. 15, 2011, special immigration and customs agents Jamie Zapato and Victor Aerla were shot with an AK-47, and on Dec. 15, Border Patrol agent Brian Terry was gunned down by a drug cartel member. Weapons found at the scene of some of these shootings were traced back to a U.S. Justice Department program code named "Fast and Furious," weapons that the federal government put in the hands of Mexico's narcoterrorists.
Equally appalling is the coverup of wrongdoing by the Obama administration. Attorney General Eric Holder will not release some 30,000 documents requested by Congress. This could be a bigger scandal than Watergate — and more tragic by far, since the death toll is still mounting from Fast and Furious.