By Pat Shannan
Two top United States officials have now been forced out of their positions as a result of a congressional investigation into “Fast and Furious,” a U.S. operation that had law enforcement looking the other way as Mexican drug gangs purchased guns in the U.S. and smuggled them into Mexico. The mainstream media was largely dismissive of the scale of these official programs, but AMERICAN FREE PRESS remained focused on the scandal, which has resulted in the death of a Border Patrol officer, fired on by weapons purchased during one of the U.S. government-run operations.
be unsealed because they will indicate that there were red flags and people should have known that there was gun walking happening. bill: this report talked about misguided strategies, errors in judgment, management failures. do you think this now insulates eric holder from responsibility? it s hardly and excuse. ignorance is hardly and excuse. for instance the acting director of the act, ken melson, one person who stepped aside, he s there in that job for roughly two years, you know how many times he met with the attorney general? once. what kind of claim to economy see does the attorney general have when you meet with the head of the atf -rpblg, you say well i didn t know what was going on. is that what we really him to do is raoet with th meet with the
appoint east responsible to him failed to do their jobs. reporter: martha, you may recall eric holder was asked in congressional hearing about the wiretap applications he would be quote, surprised if the gun-walking tactics were contained in the wiretap applications. the report found details were there including that five-pain cover memo. martha. martha: what about the atf, william, agency all this seems to go back to? reporter: the report ripped them the worse, especially atf mean exin. basically it said that former acting director kenneth melson he retired yesterday. his number two, billy hoover already has gotten out. bill mcmahon still drawing a paycheck will likely be fired as the agent in charge, bill newell and other agents in washington and phoenix. those below newell, they will likely face a review panel. if fired they could regain their positions through
story as we learn by the day. good morning i m bill hemmer. welcome to america s newsroom. . martha: good morning. i m martha maccallum. intelligence sources are also telling fox news the ringleader of this attack was a former guantanamo detainee. he is libyan. released from gitmo five years ago. he was transferred to libyan custody on the condition stay in jail. obviously that did not happen. bill: chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge working this story. the catherine, who is this man. what are we learning now? reporter: good morning. this story was first broken by bret baier last night is a turning point because the administration s narrative that benghazi was not a premeditated terrorist attacks is now fraying at the edges. a u.s. intelligence source telling me no firm conclusions have been reached. that the former guantanamo detainee, known extremist, whose operation is in eastern libya is under the microscope. there was no significant or sizable demonst
0 9:35 p.m. when the attack unfolded. in simple terms there was no demonstration that spun out of control with extremists hijacking the crowd and assaulting the consulate in two ways. a u.s. intelligence officials left the door to other al qaeda op atives. kudo seems to check all the books. was a member of lfig, the libyan group. this group trained fighters to afghanistan and iraq. and the lfig has been known to send fighters to syria. bill: they were blaming the film for a time and apparently that will go to the wayside. how does the administration explain the disconnect of the explanation anything? reporter: after the head of the counterterrorism center confirmed at the open hearing this was a terrorist attack the white house spokesman two hours later seemed to struggle to explain why the so-called demonstrators brought rpg s and used mortgage tas mortars. as i said last week as our ambassador to the united nations said on sunday as i has called the assault a terrorist attack?