as you approach the mexican port of entry, you don t have to stop. there is a traffic light. if there is a green light you keep going. you don t talk with anybody. so if you are smuggling guns you go. he didn t. he stopped. he approached customs agents, said he made a mistake, could he make a u-turn. cau-turn. he called 911. those aren t the actions of a guilty guy. it will boil town to whether or not he knew and wanted to cross the bored with the weapons or if it was just an honest mistake. if we can prove the latter theory we should expect an
what s to stop a police car from stopping and looking in your wind doe. the future is now not necessarily state but private business cameras. much by the way for law enforcement it has proved invaluable it has solved crime. there is an upside and downside. he is basically saying it s a brave new world right now. somethin tells me bloomberg is invested in the drone business. i just have a hunch he is going to make some cash off this drone thing. cynicism. we shall see. more on that coming up. get to your headlines and see what else is happening. knew criminals were smuggling guns in mexico and they apparently did nothing to stop it that s the claim on operation fast and furious. did not report the illegal gun activity outside of arizona. atf told border agents not to arrest people they caught smuggling weapons. brian terry was killed by
fast and furious was meant to track guns to mexican drug cartels, but the feds didn t keep tabs on some of those weapons and bandits left two of them at the scene of a shootout where the border agent, brian terry, died. now this new report indicates that dozens of officials ignored the safety of the public as they allowed fast and furious to proceed. william lajeunesse is live up in los angeles. that is an embarrassing admonition that u.s. officials knew the criminals were smuggling guns to mexico, they could have been stopped but were not. basically they allowed the investigation to override or overshadow public safety. the parts of the inspector general s report that we have obtained places blame on three atf supervisor bill knewle and others. their lawyers say the parts of the report are inaccurate and unfair, that these agents in phoenix kept the tap brass in washington informed of the tactics and the number of weapons that they let go.
jenna: we have a lot of good stories to dig into today, everybody. the afghan air force funded by your tax money is reportedly under investigation for smuggling guns and smuggling drugs. hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. nice to have you with us today. jon: i m jon scott. the allegations of criminal activity there putting a spotlight on links between afghan commanders and the drug trade, raising new concerns about a shooting attica bull airport at kabul airport that you might remember that left eight u.s. officers dead. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. how did these allegations come to light? reporter: well, jon, the allegations came to light in a wall street journal article that appeared this morning. the u.s. military is not confirming as of now that an investigation has been launched into or that they ve found any evidence that afghan officers in the air force have been involved in this drug trade. but what s interesting and we ve gotten our h
experts say there is a way to extend that. in any case, breivik says he expects to spend the rest of his life behind bars. bret? greg burke early tuesday morning in oslo. greg, thank you. it appears some of your tax money has found its way to the taliban in afghanistan. the pentagon says funds from a $2.1 billion trucking contract to get supplies to american troops were funneled to the militants. a pentagon spokesman says a new contract will be awarded and applicants will be more thoroughly vetted. we have an update tonight on the u.s. government law enforcement initiative that allowed guns to fall into the hands of mexican criminals. we have an exclusive report on some of the buyers in operation fast and furious. it s a lot of guns. that was the first thing that came into mind. this attorney represents manuel acosta, the man accused of recruiting 19 straw buyers later indicted for smuggling