toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, as we, the house oversight committee and other organizations were led to believe, the atf lost track of those weapons. some were brought back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i repeat, not part of the plan. she writes, five law enforcement agents directly involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws which stimied them at every turn. the house oversight committee is slamming is the story. we ll get to that in
trard toward tracing their way through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune s magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i repeat, not part of the plan. she writes, five law enforcement agents directly involved in fast and furious tell fortune that the atf had no such tactic. she goes on to say, they insist they never purposefully allowed guns to be illegally trafficked. just the opposite. they say they seized weapons whenever they could but were hamstrung by prosecutors and weak laws which stimied them at every turn. however, committee chairman, darryl issa, declined to come on this program to elaborate. committee member john is going to join us in
story. just hours from whether to cite attorney general eric holder for contempt of congress, a heavily researched story suggests that the scandal at the center of tomorrow s vote may not have been a scandal at all, or at least not the scandal we ve been led to believe it is. here s what they thought we knew about the atf operation known as fast and furious. so-called straw buyers from mexican drug cartels were allowed to buy guns in the southwest. then those guns, thousands of them, were allowed to walk or be smuggled into mexico with an eye of tracing them through the cartels. instead, we, the oversight committee lost track of those weapons. some made them back into the country. two were found at the scene were border agent brian terry was gunned down. that was the story as we and nearly everyone thought we knew. now, tonight though, after six months of reporting, fortune s magazine reveals a very different fast and furious. the bottom line, letting guns walk was not i
then i called my lawyer and i said i do know something i think they truly will want to know about. i know about helen brach. i was solicited to kill helen. and that brought steve miller running. in return for his testimony, the government cut his sentence in half, paid him $6,000 and helped pay for a hernia operation. joe plemmons was given benefits no greater and much less than many other cooperative witnesses. he had a lot of reasons to say whatever you wanted him to say, wouldn t you say? he was aware of details that only someone privy to these sinister conversations would have had access to. richard bailey said cathy jayne olson and plemmons are telling fantasy stories. short of someone coming forward and saying i was responsible for killing helen brach and richard bailey had nothing to do with it, how are you going to get out of here?
ed. this is a guy somebody ought to pay for his subscription to ancestry.com so when he makes up fantasy stories about where he comes from and how he has cuban anti-castro roots, he can maybe go to the ancestry.com and get real names and real people. i got to say one more thing. ben nelson, i d get him testosterone shots for about a year and get him a backbone that works. great ideas for christmas. mike, i want to add that i think the diapers should say merry xxx-mas on it. but i actually searched a little bit on the internet to find a lovely under $10 gift. i think i found the perfect one on amazon.com. i found a door mat that was $20 marked to $7.98. i think you have the graphic. yes, there it is. it s a welcome mat. there s i think that would go from harry reid to mitc mcconnell.