brian: cover-up continues around operation fast and furious, the botched government sting operation that left an american border patrol agent dead and thousands more hundreds more dead in mexico. now atf agent john doddson is fighting the agency for permission to write a book exposing the truth behind the operation and it s not the government s first crack at a cover-up. our next guest knows firsthand the problems he s going to have writing it. joining us is fox news contributor and author of fast and furious, barak obama s ugliest scandal and shameless cover-up, katie. this guy wants to do what you did. why is he having hard time? because the department of justice, which is in control of atf supervisors have denied an outside work request from john doddson. to give background on who he is, he s the first whistle blower to come forward publicly on camera to talk about what was going on during operation toss and furious back in 2011 after brian
eric: this is a story we ve been talking about on the five. remember fast and furious, the plan to track guns given to mexican drug lords? well now we learned that three a.t.f. supervisors, two of whom were already admitted making mistakes in the plan have been promoted by attorney general eric holder. so kim, so far at least one border agent dead, thousands of guns going to mexican drug lords. 11 found at crime scenes, 11 new ones at least. the obama administration punished no one but promoted three. kimberly: absolutely. that s what you do. promote them when they should be investigated. as a prosecutor, william mcmahon, the a.t.f. deputy director of operation in the west was promoted to deputy assistant director of the a.t.f. office of professional responsibility. i couldn t think anything more unprofessional than what happened in this case. william newell a field supervisor oversaw the program out of the a.t.f. phoenix office where we have so many
eric: this is a story we ve been talking about on the five. remember fast and furious, the plan to track guns given to mexican drug lords? well now we learned that three a.t.f. supervisors, two of whom were already admitted making mistakes in the plan have been promoted by attorney general eric holder. so kim, so far at least one border agent dead, thousands of guns going to mexican drug lords. 11 found at crime scenes, 11 new ones at least. the obama administration punished no one but promoted three. kimberly: absolutely. that s what you do. promote them when they should be investigated. as a prosecutor, william mcmahon, the a.t.f. deputy director of operation in the west was promoted to deputy assistant director of the a.t.f. office of professional responsibility. i couldn t think anything more unprofessional than what happened in this case. william newell a field supervisor oversaw the program out of the a.t.f. phoenix office where we have so many
your finger, numerous rounds come out. you don t pull the trigger for each round. these are weapons that only the military has. question, is it lawful for anyone in the united states to sell these to someone else. answer, only if the recipient has a license to receive them. so when the atf either sold them or allowed them to get into the hands of the mexican gang lords, even though the atf was doing it to try and trace them, it basically broke the law that it s supposed to be enforcing, and in this case it had a tragic result against one of their own. patti ann: and the department of justice, as we said, is now launching an investigation, but we should point out, the atf agent whom we just saw on cbs says that he and a few others approached senator chuck grassley to talk about this problem and to say that they had complained to atf supervisors that it was going to be dangerous and these guns were not being tracked. they say they were ignored and when senator grassley asked the doj and