Great Ife! Great Ife! Africa’s most beautiful campus! Conscious, vigilant, progressive! Aluta against all oppression! Forward ever, backward never! For
quote: state department spokesman turner denied any scopes were sold to pakistan. i am aware that in august we have approved or did approve a marketing license that allowed bae to temporarily export up to 20 thermal imaging rifle scopes to pakistan but that was for sales demonstration. and none of those scopes were sold. it s interesting to note that exactly a year ago bae systems agreed to pay $400 million in fines to the department of justice as part of a criminal suit because they had broken export control laws and the foreign corrupt practices act, shep? shepard: jen, thank you. we have new details on the botched gun tracking program called fast and furious.
supposedly did not recommend him when he tried to get another job with a california contractor. jon: what is bae saying about all this? reporter: well they of course realize this is a big problem for the company in terms of, you know, a public relations disaster. they are, they are calling dakota meyer a hero. they re wishing him well but this is what the spokesman said in response to the allegations of selling weapons to pakistan. quote, the u.s. department of state, not a bae systems makes the decision what defense-related products can be exported. the state department spokesman mark toner was asked about whether these thermal optic sites had been, sights had been sold to pakistan. here is what he said yesterday. i m aware in august we approved or did approve a marketing license that allowed bae to temporarily export up to 20 thermal imaging rifle scopes to pakistan but that was for sales demonstration and none
rifles, the just department not bae makes decisions on what defense-related products can be exported. when asked about the the sale of the arms to pakistan yesterday at the briefing i am aware that an in august, we have or we did approve a marketing license that allowed bae to temporarily export up to 20 thermal imaging rifle scopes to pakistan but that was for a sales demonstration, and none of those scopes were sold. reporter: pentagon and marine officials are not commenting on this case, they say that dakota meyer is not active duty anymore so they re leaving it to the courts, but privately, those who know meyer say that he s not someone who follows the rules. that s what led him to go back in and disobey orders from his higher ups in the marines, go tbhak and save those 36 lives. that s the kind of guy he is, and that s what maybe has led to this situation with his former employer.