From the comment thread at Confederate Yankee
>>Not so fast. Maybe yes, maybe no. I actually DID speak to the Webb County Sheriff's and they would not confirm or deny that any ranches had been seized. They pleaded agnosticism.
I just spoke to Kimberly Dvorak who I know and has been a source on ACORN and other stories for Breitbart's sites. Kimberly wrote this article on the situation this morning:
is.gd
Kimberly is adamantly standing by her story, and gave me the name of one of her three sources inside the Laredo Police Department and Webb County Sheriff's Department she says not only confirmed the story of the ranches being seized, but elaborated in great detail what was happening. She also has other sources on the ground, non-law enforcement. She is mid-stream in developing and further reporting the whole story, and she has reason reason to believe that law enforcement is in mid-operation on the ranches, and do not want their operation interrupted with publicity before they are finished.
Given the shootout that occurred on the 22nd, it would also make some sense that the ranches were simply "seized" by retreating Zeta gunman.
Kimberly has a very long record as a very credible journalist, with established sources inside the Mexican cartels themselves.
I have no idea what quite is or isn't going on here, but I say let's give ol' Kim the hours ahead to track all this, and flesh it out, one way or the other. She's asked for the rope, and I'm giving it to her.
As someone else likes to say:
Developing...
>>From someone near the scene, who knows Kim Dvorak and is monitoring the situation: "RE: Laredo: I just spoke to Kimberly Dvorak who has been a source on ACORN stories for Breitbart, and wrote this article: is.gd. Kimberly is adamantly standing by her story, and gave me the name of one of her three sources inside the PD/Sherrif’s Dept., two of whom…she says not only confirmed the story of the ranches being seized, but elaborated in great detail what was happening. She also has other sources on the ground, non-law enforcement. She is mid-stream in developing and further reporting the whole story, and she has.. reason to believe that law enforcement is in mid-operation on the ranches, and do not want their operation interrupted with publicity before (23 minutes ago via web)
patriotresistance.com
Furthermore, Breitbart is confirming:
bigpeace.com
Additional details, with a classic "we can neither confirm or deny" twist are here:
deathby1000papercuts.com
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