fortune magazine and then
axle an article written by catherine yvonne
has broken the fasten if you're a story of the real story and it is amazing what
we didn't know
is also an amazing with all my ministry should be admitted to
when it wasn't true
so what'd they do well first of all
uh... they looked into two thousand pages of confident o
confidential a_t_f_ documents now
a_t_f_ of course uh... is their group enabled thirty nine people
uh... a_t_f_ is a group of course that
uh... was alleged to have
gotten two thousand weapons
and give it to the mexican drug cartels
walk the guns all over is the way they put it
and it turns out after by doing a six-month investigative at peace
including all the things that we just
nation in all those interviews
fortune has concluded
but that is not what happened
at all
here let me give you some good wishes
at a_t_f_ had no such tactic
it never purposefully allowed guns to be legally traffic
they seize weapons whatever they could
but were hamstrung by prosecutors and we cause which stymied them at every terror
what do they mean by that
they never bought the guns they never gave it to the mexican drug cartels they
never gave it to
anybody who were middleman
it turns out they were doing investigations that found out
but there were metal men in arizona were buying these guns
sometimes people receiving food stamps
who are buying three hundred thousand dollars where the weapons
the a_t_f_ agents there otherwise i said please let's investigators let's stop
this
but all prosecutors said an answer
you have enough information
no we will not allow you to pursue this
one of the reasons that they did not allow them to pursue it well because the
laws mcgovern lausanne arizona offering plateau bleeped them
radically wink
why does the n_r_a_ said i want to have you don't know what dili goal but i
think circumstance you know there's order here's what you need a bike any
amount of weapon
baby eighteen
and
passive criminal background check
income in a bike tangos twenty or thirty or three hundred goes it doesn't matter
in fact you have to prove intent
if you would that you're buying these guys for elicit purposes
you've got to go inside the guy's hat if they say prosecutors say
hey you know what
if he buys at twenty tons
and then turns around
and sells a ten minutes later traversing the drug cartel
well he could appear his original intent by the news the guns
but in those tennessee changes mining given the cartel's instead
we can't prosecute
that's because of the laws in arizona
there is uh... no waiting period is no need for permits
fires are allowed to resell the guns
invective a_t_f_ agents
stopped event but with these guns
they say that fake it can be sued
for getting there
their rightful property
away from them
so a_t_f_ agents in this case turnout and led by
uh... engine being of war
trying it prosecutors and no one is for months at a time
for years we've been doing this investigation
so
as you read into the details more it gets crazier grazer linda wallis special
asia with the internal revenue service is
criminal investigation unit
who was assigned to the fasten the furious team
so is there a way to get the story entirely backwards
and she's a huge gun rights advocate as she says quote
republican senators or with any of the country into a psychotic frenzy
with these reports
patently false
exact opposite of what's happening here right
it's okay 'cause uh...
they they got a man week there's been several piece of evidence of that uh...
republics of trot it out
and remember
there now
tryna hold the attorney general eric holder in contempt
for over this program because the dating discovery of documents
it's already passed committee
and now the ajami nursing the full house is going to vote on it
impeccably flub some democrats
into voting yes they are called now what what are some of their piece of evidence
well they say
by they had this that
paper that uh... shows spin on january fifth twenty ten
that bought them and uh... we mentioned
uh... let the guns wants us quote currently
our strategy is to allow the transfer of arms to continue take place
albeit a much slower pace in order for the new investigation allow for the
identification
of additional co-conspirators
now that's a smoking gun
they got a i carry says these were allowing the transfer about the fire
now here's apart they didn't
it turns out prosecutors told them
no you cannot stop me he was a guy i try to stop the transfer of those firearms
they white a_t_f_ firearms they were sold by the
dealers and this eight hundred and thirty-five
gun dealers near the border in arizona who are doing this like they don't know
the dates and drug cartels are buying is just the n_r_a_ who makes those
incredibly weak laws doesn't know let's go to the mexican drug cartels
of course a no but the gun manufacturers are in the n_r_a_ they walked those guns
sold ever goes an x in drug cartels who can take an extra dollar out of it
so they don't know prosecutors and they say
a_t_f_ agents say well i i want to be able to profit arrest these guys
and the prosecutors say no you can't
so then bought the rights that email saying well i guess i would have to let
him continue buying is guns
but can we at least rack of lamb he asked for a wiretap now pointless or
they didn't show you
as an example patrick cunningham u_s_ attorneys
uh... office
of endocrinology than arizona
letters like this quote
purchasing multiple long guns in arizona is lawful
transferring them to another is lawful even the sale or border of the guns to
another is lawful policy analysis to improve my career
and convincing evidence the firearm is intended to be used
to commit crime
in other words
do not arrest them and you can track them as your email sans
but you're not allowed to arrest them
even though you know it's going to expand drug cartels because of the laws
that we have in this country
you've got a lot of walk away with those guys
but not the fault of those a_t_f_ agents
or try to stop it
as the fault of those laws
that were pushed by the n_r_a_ ever republicans without trial might make it
as a hyper-v didn't stop the guts
this whole thing is reported
but it goes up
uh... a_t_f_ at his second piece of the storm you know they had was
a_t_f_ agent
banning john dot while he went on the c_b_s_ evening news
the appear to be a whistle-blower
and he he told everybody only like god
you would let the guns what can you believe this and it seems like that's
always a good guy
you were intentionally leading guns go to mexico
disbanded in too much
and it's on the ground in phoenix and tell me we've been doing it every day
since i've been here
here i a m
tell me i didn't do the things that i did tell me
you didn't want me to do things like that
coming and in that
now you have in the morning and face the pope
here
someone
filmed
first thoughts on that story
second-lowest on that i didn't
i've done everything that i can
but then the picture
after this
i don't know what else i can do
but i don't think
we find out that in fact
dotson
didn't like bought his commanding officer
cus he would make them work on weekends
so if you want to throw mud or a box he would shoot dot so which opened
flip-flops
and what was said hey urination
but much more important mess
his big nickname for dot said
the guy aren't able to c_b_s_
was raped by business school
but it is he would listen to any orders
he'd go into an et and operation
without its proper gear
every situation every house what are you doing here and he got to be sent home
it his best friend said well i must say you some of your asshole
day that is also in the portuguese
nothing compared
to what dotson
actually
you know who is the only one that out actually allowed
guns to be
walked across the border our guns
a_t_f_ guns
the guy who was the theoretical whistleblower
outside of the passengers program not as a part of it outside of the decided that
he was going to be a renegade a maverick
and he got
without authorization
he got three guns of ours
sold to uh... archive food that eventually
assault on the mexican drug cartel
he was told when we block his commanding officer found out about this story
telling
and then they had to go on
permission afterwards for what he did but he suffered a lot of god at least
properly tracked the guns
and probably tracked the money and everything else
so he sensed
uh... ted
that's an an email saying
track the money okay
here is what
dobson writes back in an email
to give you a sense of who's right who's wrong
after being told that he had to track the money within five days quote
do the orders to fire today
is it a calendar day a business day a work day
and perspective that they have been a sixty-one forty-three repairs
which would mean but i have plenty of time
in other words i'm not gonna fall your orders i'm not gonna track these guns
and guess what i have
in the year double wore on
lost track of those guns
the only person lost track of anyone's was a theoretical whistleblower in this
case werapong as a put others like all of you see that dodge cyber egtab set
about walking the dogs like apple and i think the f_b_i_ things that all the
good news that satara
it turns out he's not autocad
dot on facebook here as far ramp was lauded by everyone inside the a_t_f_ and
their government outside of those prosecutors even one newburgh go for
with these cases
as a model program
because they were actually try to stop the weapons
in actually give the weapons to these guys
is a fabrication now by the way why the prosecutors dragged their
that heels on august
they get it because
it turns out
since the laws in arizona and otherwise is so weak
and so hard to prove
that it's a really hard case the when and even if you women
it's a very minimal punishment
so they liked what will you waste our time and maybe get at you know of smear
on our record if we lose
on this rate in the case 'cause is almost
so so little punishment on it
again who was a fall
well it's the republicans in arizona and everybody that supports the n_r_a_ said
we should have been little punishment
deletion the incredibly hard to brew
its exact opposite of what you've been hearing the news this story drives me
crazy i don't blame the media for getting this story wrong
because it could be doing
it's not their fault
you had guys like don said want cameras and all by god i gotta tell you about
the water
oh
down
it turns out he's the son of a picture with the guns walk in the first place
right now you can say hey you should invest either moranis fortune dead now
remember their fortunes investigation took six months
the reason i don't want the media that much
is because
oboe bombing trisha reaction
and you can really do it at your number dot so was the bag and have a good night
and boston
and the a_t_f_ was actually trying to stop the cons and never
actually purchase guns and even to the drug cartels
would you speak up
would you say something
well it turns out her golden bears say something
he admitted fault
indicates
where there were no four
listen when he said quote
begun use of the misguided tactic is inexcusable
and it was never happen again
but my god meant why are you doing things that didn't happen
lion cards u
the thoughtful it's okay
we we don't want to hang on this gun rights issues before the election
that's not my speculation his fortune magazine
though bonnie adminstration
which forty export has capitulated
in apparent effort
to avoid a rhetorical battle over gun control
in the run-up to the
presidential election
brian idea
brilliant brilliant
so the n_r_a_ says week-long spewed all other prosecuting these cases
that are using these guns
you listen to them
and then when they say how do you not prosecute those guys how dare you let
those guys
guns walk your really ingenious idea you for the medical test was
all you're right i'm so sorry
chases come on man
anybody was something so bomb is a political genius that this is the but
there was a brilliant move into
although we don't weekly we'll let you know i got a whatever you wanted even
though he hasn't wrote
simmers
service
this is beyond inexcusable
and now with attorney general
held in contempt they've got thirty-one democrats conflict on this
now that another level of irony to this is the n_r_a_ is turning around as
saying
were gonna score this vote
so what that means is
if u_-boat
in favor of holders the usual holding content
well then we're gonna say that was a vote against gun rights
blake
do you understand that
triple quadruple irony there
it said ours for the first place at this happens
then they turn around and say if you don't falsely accuse holder
wanna say your guest governor
by the way what's the whole time a result of this this is the third layer
victory for the n_r_a_ the right way
because
from twenty ten
two twenty eleven sis's investigation the fast and furious began
gun seizures in group seven and a_t_f_'s three other groups in phoenix
drop by more than
ninety
more wins for the gun manufacturers
they make it scandal
about how they're not season after
the use of this as an excuse
to seize
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