there are strong preliminary indications that the death of United States Border Patrol Agent Nicholas J. Ivie and the injury to a second agent was the result of an accidental shooting incident involving only the agents,"

No perps, just border agents shooting each other. WOW I think they need more training.

Goofy Bastards flocked to this article hoping that they could get some more Issa hearings. It ain't there idiots. How about we talk about Bush's outrageous negligence relative to pre-911 warnings of an imminent attack on the United States. Look at the photo galleries of fallen firefighters and police officers who died 11 years ago. Ask shoe polish hair, and his FOX News Committee to investigate that.

I have finished my numbers and yet counting idiots

wHO really believes this except Holder and Obama and Hillary, and Nepolitano, the gang of Four liars! Benghazi?? Fast and Furious? now this, and there was the issue in Afghan with the Army also, the NFL player cover up killing!!! And anyway, the FAST and FURIOUS bunch has saturated that area with arms from US arsenals, so how are you going to tell which M16 killed him????

the whole border thing is polluted and corrupted by big money, politics, and corruption. Who in their right mind would work for the border patrol under Obama, they are useless, worthless, and helpless. What a sorry job, almost as bad as serving in the military for Obama.

THE reason the demonrats do not want the borders closed and controlled is so they can keep living off of drug money, drug supply and the supply of cheap labor and votes! DO you really think the Demonrats ever really want to solve the border issue and immigration? hell no! they are part of the problem, and a huge benefactor. Just like Cancer, does anyone expect the American Cancer society and the rest to solve cancer cures? hell no!!!! they make too much government money from research(phony) to ever find the cure! they live off of the disease, why would they, likely the cure,CURE is in a vault in Atlanta along with the formula for Coca Cola!!!!!

Here's my conspiracy therory.It was indeed a Fast&Furious weapon involved.And the Gov is in full cover-up mode.Cause if it was in fact a F&F weapon Obama and his Lying Attorney General would be soooo done.Just Sayin

Friendly fire...from whom? Must be now we must consider the Mexican Cartel's our friends. Another cover up by the Justice (?) Department who supplies the guns to the criminals....but want to take away guns from the law abiding citizens so they can have total power over us as their slaves. Disgusting.

"DANG! 'Friendly Fire' also killed that football player Tillman in Afghan, and now the 2,000 American in Afghan dies recently.

Am sure as heck glad I never enlisted! I'll stay here in USA and tell you to send YOUR kids to war for ME! I sure aint gonna joinup and get killed! But I am STILL a GOSH-DARN PATRIOT!"

================(signed -TOBY KEITH)===============

this stinks-----and has all the indications of another lie

This is very sad, but unfortunately it happens when things don't go right in action. Now what needs to be determined is if it is politically charged like I heard the killing of that NFL player who fought in Afghanistan looked to some folks like it had politics involved with (like disagreement with Bush policies on the war, etc.).

They should be issued water pistols, but then water is scarce in the desert. Rocks, yeah rocks, lots of rocks out there!

This mans' life was worth more than what it was made in to.He is now a punctuation mark on our two party systems' failure to do its' job for decades

Border Patrol Agents firing at each other and thinking they were in a gun battle with drug runners, and the evidence doesn't even show that anyone else was present. All you can say to that is hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha That's the funniest thing I've ever heard. Nice job guys....No wonder why we have an immigration problem these guys are chasing around wild animals and claiming it was drug dealers or human traffickers....What an organization the Border Patrol is who's running it? Must be one of Obama's appointments. Goes with the theme of the current White House assigning unqualified losers to positions based on their political affiliation not their experience. This is your new Socialist Democratic Movement at it's best...Vote for some real hope and change this November and let's take this country back while we still have something left to save. Send Obama back to Chicago where maybe he can get a job doing something he's qualified to do....Like emptying trash cans

The conclusion is based on an analysis of the ballistics, the lack of evidence of other criminals in the area at the time, and other factors, the sources said.

OK, ballistics analysis, check.

Lack of evidence of other criminals in the area - Ah what were they doing there. I don't buy this.

This shooter should be changed with involuntary manslaughter.

Another tragedy and hopefully not another cover-up.

If Libya had only worked out this nicely Obama would really be smiling.

What an incredible bunch of pendejos on the two sides of the border, but at least the killing will stay in the family.

Congratulations to the FBI for calling it the way it truly happened...

Two different people shot by friendly fire! BULL S*&T

Last week all the nuts on here were calling Obama and Holder murderers. This week, no apologies from those fools, they just change their story to cover up. What a bunch of fox fools.

This is for the fools who despite all evidence to the contrary, keep claiming that Obama has cut border security. WAKE THE **** UP!

(From Politifact.com)

Obama says border patrol has doubled the number of agents since 2004

In a speech on immigration reform in El Paso, Texas, President Barack Obama boasted about an unprecedented number of border security agents along the U.S. border with Mexico, but he said critics probably still won't be satisfied.

"Under Secretary Napolitano's leadership, we have strengthened border security beyond what many believed was possible," Obama said in his May 10, 2011, speech. "They wanted more agents on the border. Well, we now have more boots on the ground on the southwest border than at any time in our history. The Border Patrol has 20,000 agents –- more than twice as many as there were in 2004, a buildup that began under President Bush and that we have continued."

Obama said that commitment is beyond what was requested by some Republicans "who said they supported broader reform as long as we got serious about enforcement."

"I suspect there will be those who will try to move the goal posts one more time," Obama said. "They'll say we need to triple the border patrol. Or quadruple the border patrol."

Obama has touted this statistic about border patrol agents in his immigration speeches before. In July 2010, we fact-checked the president's claim that "Today, we have more boots on the ground near the southwest border than at any time in our history." (the same phrase he used in El Paso). And last month, our colleagues atPolitiFact Georgia checked Obama's claim in a TV interview that "We have now more Border Patrol officers … than we've had at any time in our history."

We rated both of those claims Mostly True, noting that while border patrol manpower is at an all-time modern high, President Woodrow Wilson sent between 75,000 and 150,000 troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in 1916 to quell a surprise attack in the New Mexico town of Columbus by Pancho Villa, a military venture otherwise known as the Mexican Expedition of 1916.

Here, we decided to focus on Obama's claim that "the Border Patrol has 20,000 agents -- more than twice as many as there were in 2004."

There were 20,745 border patrol agents as of April 9, 2011; 17,659 of them stationed along the southwest border with Mexico, according to data provided by Steven Cribby, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.

That's up from 17,499 border patrol agents at the end of September 2008, four months before Obama took office (an 18 percent increase).

Singling out just the border patrol agents along the U.S.-Mexico border, the number has increased from 15,422 to 17,659 (a 14 percent increase).

According to a March 3, 2010, analysis of border security by the Congressional Research Service, "Border Patrol agent manpower assigned to the southwest border has been increasing steadily since the early 1990s. In 1992, there were 3,555 agents assigned to the southern border, by 2000 that number had increased by 141 percent to 8,580. Since 2000, the number of agents assigned to the southern border has continued to increase, more than doubling once more to 20,119 agents at the end of FY2009. The rapid and steady increase of Border Patrol agents assigned to the southern border reflects the ongoing interest in Congress in stemming the tide of illegal immigration."

The report notes that Obama's proposed 2011 budget requested a reduction of 181 Border Patrol agents. But the administration's proposed 2012 budget calls for increasing the the number of border patrol agents to 21,370.

Jack Martin, special projects director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which supports stricter illegal immigration guidelines, said Obama's statistic is true but that much of the credit for starting the trend toward more border security goes to Obama's predecessor.

"There has been a steady buildup of BP officers for several years given impetus by the 9/11 attacks," Martin said. "The increase has by necessity been gradual because it is limited by the capacity of the BP training facility."

In March 2011, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released a report, "Border Security: DHS Progress and Challenges in Securing the U.S. Southwest and Northern Borders," in conjunction with testimony from GAO Director Richard Stana.

The report confirmed that personnel and other resources to stop illegal crossings of the U.S.-Mexico border have increased dramatically in recent years. In 2004, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security was created, reorganizing several federal agencies under a single roof. That year, the agency had 10,500 agents to patrol land borders. That number now stands at nearly 21,000.

In other words, manpower has roughly doubled since 2004, as Obama said in his speech in El Paso. Again, that trend began under President Bush, whom Obama credited, but it continued under Obama. We rate Obama's statement True.

We rate Obama's statement True.

We rate Obama's statement True.

We rate Obama's statement True.

Did anybody actually READ the story. "The conclusion is based on an analysis of the ballistics, the lack of evidence of other criminals in the area at the time, and other factors, the sources said."

If the ballistics make the gun of the other agent than that is what happened. But to say there is a lack of evidence of other criminals,... well has anyone thought if there was a criminal that it was a revolver????? You won't find the brass. SORRY this doesn't add up at all.

So let me guess, because he was killed by a fellow officer's gun while shooting at a guy shooting at him with a gun sold by Eric Holder's crappy half-baked sting operation approved by Obama this lets these two ding-a-lings in public office off the hook how? I guess in that Superman Bizzaro world that somhow makes sense! Either that or there McCain/Palin actually won in 2008 and their world ISN'T in dire economic turmoil!

Ballistics tests could easily determine if the fatal bullets came from another agent's gun.

It takes some time to do the cover-up correctly. Just ask the FLEA's that were at Ruby Ridge, Waco, East Los Angeles and other places. If there is a magic bullet, like the one they found on the Kennedy stretcher, I bet it matches the gun used by the wounded Agent. I bet the killing round was from an AK-47, 7.62x39. Those Agents wear vests that, in all but rare cases. will stop a 9mm or 40 S&W, even at close range, but the vest will NOT stop the AK or SKS round. I hope the family demands a seperate and private autopsy and does all the necessary blood, BALLISTIC and DNA tests on the Agent and the bullet(s). And, oh sure, the mexican law enforcement arrested the scum, NOT. They are just trying to appease the Democrats and say, "Look, Oblah-blah and his crew are working with us. We are not the bad guys here. We only ALLOW our maggots to migrate to the North because they need the moe-ney. We don't allow the bad guys to go North, we stop them". BS, I say seal the border and pull ALL our Military out of the Middle-East and place them at the border with orders to "Shoot the rats". Oh, I forgot, Democrat ends in "RAT"....... HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.

If the agents were hit by "unfriendly fire", the government would be presented with one more example of why the border should be secured and maybe with more US casualties of the Fast and Furious debacle. First reports by State and Federal authorities was of a hostile attack at the scene of an area where alarms had been set off. Even Mexico arrested shooters. But with the failed debate, the President and his "gang" can't stand any more public failures of their policies. This article says the "preliminary indications" of the FBI investigation, but the final report will not be presented until AFTER the election next month. Just like official unemployment numbers are suddenly down, even though fewer jobs were created in September than in August, fewer jobs were created in August than in July, and fewer jobs were created in July than in June.

From now on when a police officer is shot and no criminals around it will be ruled as friendly fire.