Union boss: Friendly fire possibility in shooting

The shooting of two U.S. Border Patrol agents near the Arizona-Mexico border may have been a case of friendly fire, a union chief for border agents and law enforcement officials said Friday. The development could shake up the investigation into the death of one of the agents that reignited the political debate over security on the border. George McCubbin, president of the National Border Patrol Council, a union representing about 17,000 border agents, said Friday he has learned new details from Border Patrol administrators that make him believe friendly fire could have played a part in the shooting. "The only thing I can say is that the possibility of friendly fire is a higher likely scenario," McCubbin said, declining to elaborate on the new details. Two law enforcement officials also told The Associated Press that the FBI is investigating the possibility that the fatal shooting of 30-year-old Agent Nicholas Ivie and the wounding of another agent early Tuesday five miles from the border was a case of friendly fire...more