it turned out to be a million bucks a plane, too expensive? keep this in mind, since 1975 40 civil planes have been shot at by these shoulder rocket missiles, 28 have crashed, 800 people have died, megyn, and now tens of thousands of these things are unaccounted for in libya. megyn: wow. trace gallagher, thank you. well, brand new developments in the fast and furious gun trafficking scandal. fox news just obtained new documents showing your money was used to buy some of the weapons associated with that operation. an operation held partially responsible for the death of border patrol agent brian terry. william la jeunesse is live in our west coast bureau with more on this one. william? reporter: well, megyn, now we have not one, but two cases where guns were put into the hands of criminals deliberately. this tactic was not used in this fast and furious, but in another case where instead of just aiding the middleman, the u.s. government became the middleman using tax money to buy gun
another supervisor tried to discredit him by disclosing he sold guns to a criminal. remember the guns you gave him? that was dotson s. he purchased firearms as a straw purchaser. reporter: weapon sites like the examiner and clean up atf.org were among the first to report this scandal allowing current atf agents to go public without revealing their identities. it s a testament, really, to the power of the internet and the ability to network. reporter: now, this case involves the same agents, store, supervisors, framework, time frame as fast and furious, only the defendant is different. now, the agent claims he o oazed to operation, watched the stash house for a week and finally, megyn, when a car showed up to retrieve those weapons, he called for backup, and his supervisor refused and those guns disappeared. back to you. megyn: william, thank you. for a little more background on
jenna: rick, thank you very much. jon: our chatters love talking politics. there is some stunning new information in the fast and furious gun trafficking scandal. new documents showing the government might have used your tax money to buy and sell weapons to crooks. a live report coming up in the next hour. plus, an underwater treasure that would make a pirate drool, could be the most valuable shipwreck ever discovered. we ll tell you what is on board this ship and how they hope to bring it to the surface. [ woman ] my grocery bill isn t wasteful spending. [ woman ] my heart medication isn t some political game. [ man ] our retirement isn t a simple budget line item. [ man ] i worked hard. i paid into my medicare. [ man ] and i earned my social security. [ woman ] now, instead of cutting waste and loopholes, washington wants to cut our benefits? that wasn t the agreement.
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