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Agent: I was ordered to let U.S. guns into Mexico [March 3, 2011]
CBS News ^ | May 3, 2013 | Sharyl Attkisson

Posted on 05/04/2013 10:54:23 AM PDT by Innovative

An Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms senior agent assigned to the Phoenix office in 2010, Dodson's job is to stop gun trafficking across the border. Instead, he says he was ordered to sit by and watch it happen.

Dodson's bosses say that never happened. Now, he's risking his job to go public.

Agent Dodson and other sources say the gun walking strategy was approved all the way up to the Justice Department. The idea was to see where the guns ended up, build a big case and take down a cartel. And it was all kept secret from Mexico.

ATF named the case "Fast and Furious."

Surveillance video obtained by CBS News shows suspected drug cartel suppliers carrying boxes of weapons to their cars at a Phoenix gun shop. The long boxes shown in the video being loaded in were AK-47-type assault rifles.

So it turns out ATF not only allowed it - they videotaped it.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Mexico; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2deadfeds; 300deadmexicans; atf; attkisson; banglist; brianterry; dea; dhs; doj; fastandfurious; fbi; guncontrol; gunrunner; guns; gunwalker; holder; hsi; jaimezapata; mexico; obama; obamadrugpartner; secondamendment; terry; waronterror; zapata
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To: madmominct

Who are they going to have to answer to, the GOP?


41 posted on 05/04/2013 2:53:52 PM PDT by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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PFL


42 posted on 05/04/2013 3:03:03 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Innovative

Congress needs to zero out all line items funding the ATF.


43 posted on 05/04/2013 3:54:11 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Innovative
The idea was to see where the guns ended up, build a big case and take down a cartel.

I do not doubt that Mr Dodson was told this. He may even believe it. It is, nonetheless, a truck load of bull manure.

Everybody, including me, writing from my benighted location, over 1,000 miles from the southern border, already knows the cartels are a criminal enterprise. It is like saying that Elliot Ness was going to allow "Mr Caponio" to commit one more crime so he could be "taken down."

Anybody who believes anything coming out of holder's "justice department" gets precisely what they deserve.

The vast preponderance of "domestic terrorism" today is perpetrated by various agencies of the feral (not a misspelling) government.

44 posted on 05/04/2013 6:47:59 PM PDT by RobinOfKingston (Democrats--the party of Evil. Republicans--the party of Stupid.)
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To: Innovative

You’ve got the date wrong. This was a 2011 story.


45 posted on 05/04/2013 7:20:33 PM PDT by PJ-Comix (Beware the Rip in the Space/Time Continuum)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
This is orders-of-magnitude worse than Watergate.

So is Benghazi...he needs to hang for one or both of them.

46 posted on 05/04/2013 7:28:36 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: PJ-Comix

But it’s appropriate reminder in today’s context.

“We also recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States,” the president said. “I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, that can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States.”

-— May 3, 2013

http://wtvr.com/2013/05/03/obama-in-mexico/


47 posted on 05/04/2013 7:53:27 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

Obama speech in Mexico — full text:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/05/03/remarks-president-people-mexico

“And we also recognize that most of the guns used to commit violence here in Mexico come from the United States. (Applause.) I think many of you know that in America, our Constitution guarantees our individual right to bear arms, and as President I swore an oath to uphold that right and I always will. But at the same time, as I’ve said in the United States, I will continue to do everything in my power to pass common-sense reforms that keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. That can save lives here in Mexico and back home in the United States. It’s the right thing to do. (Applause.) So we’ll keep increasing the pressure on gun traffickers who bring illegal guns into Mexico. We’ll keep putting these criminals where they belong — behind bars. “


48 posted on 05/04/2013 7:59:24 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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49 posted on 05/04/2013 10:00:13 PM PDT by Nachum (The Obama "List" at www.nachumlist.com)
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Thanks Innovative.
50 posted on 05/04/2013 10:09:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: Innovative
Great find.

And the flabby old Muslim Socialist thought Ben Ghazi was a pain in the ass.

51 posted on 05/05/2013 7:54:50 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: MestaMachine

Thank you for posting the photo of Zapata and Terry....they will not be forgotten.


52 posted on 05/05/2013 6:47:03 PM PDT by spokeshave (The only people better off today than 4 years ago are the Prisoners at Guantanamo.)
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To: spokeshave

You are welcome, and no, they will not.


53 posted on 05/05/2013 6:56:47 PM PDT by MestaMachine
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