firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. according to the report, agent terry s death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops. quoting from the report, gun dealers were reawe sured aft was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. that was false. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. former agent in charge of the field office in phoenix. republican investigators concluding that agent newel authorized, encouraged and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue long after atf had the goods on the straw buyers. quotin