afternoon wanting to change the narrative, calling these charges inflammatory, and baseless. what do you know? i can tell you that the attorney general is in trouble with congress because they generally don t believe that he didn t know until early this year about a program that basically focused on something that s very key to him. defeating the cartels and stopping the flow of guns from the u.s. to mexico. also, those documents basically show that everyone around holder with the assistant attorneys general did know about it, that there is a paper trail of documents that indicate that these guys were briefed on it, not once, not twice, but several times. and the information that was in those briefings was pretty detailed as to exactly who the suspects were, how many guns they were buying. we ll look at the ring leader of this thing. he bought over 800 guns with these straw buyers over the course of a matter of months and the guy only made $15,000 a year. the wire taps, they had on h
afternoon wanting to change the narrative, calling these charges inflammatory, and baseless. what do you know? i can tell you that the attorney general is in trouble with congress because they generally don t believe that he didn t know until early this year about a program that basically focused on something that s very key to him. defeating the cartels and stopping the flow of guns from the u.s. to mexico. also, those documents basically show that everyone around holder with the assistant attorneys general did know about it, that there is a paper trail of documents that indicate that these guys were briefed on it, not once, not twice, but several times. and the information that was in those briefings was pretty detailed as to exactly who the suspects were, how many guns they were buying. we ll look at the ring leader of this thing. he bought over 800 guns with these straw buyers over the course of a matter of months and the guy only made $15,000 a year. the wire taps, they had on h
mexico. i want to make sure none of the firearms could or would end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys wrote the scott dale gun club i am looking for reassurance the guns aren t going south or in the wrong hands. in a response the atf lied assuring dealers they were not going to mexico. how many hundreds or thousands of weapons did you allow to be purchased knowing they were going to nemexico. you facilitated? bill newly authorized the operation he believed sending guns south to expose the gun trafficking network from the gunman in mexico to the smugglers transporters and straw buyers. they purchased over a thousand firearms some were procuring them at lots of 20-10 at a time. 200 firearms were in this investigation recovered in the
learned that acosta, a ringleader, bought in cash about 800 weapons through the straw buyers with half a million dollars on a salary he had of only $15,000. they knew from wiretaps that he was buying for the cartels, but did not stop him. take march 12th. at a briefing, gary grindler, then a deputy, now holder s chief of staff, learned that 313 guns were bought while on food stamps. he was not arrested, though the guns he bought showed up quickly in mexico. if in fact a border patrol agent s been murdered, 2,000 weapons are gone, this program has completely gone off the rails. why didn t he know? that s probably a more important question for the chief law enforcement officer, is if lenny brewer knew, why didn t eric holder know? well, holder claims that he doesn t read everything that his aides give him and he did not know about fast and furious until early this year. in a letter to the attorney general, issa writes, operation
were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney general s office. multiple sales and no arrests is and virtually no surveillance outside the store. that allowed a handful of thugs to buy guns. he s 18 to 25, maybe up to 30 years old who needs a couple hundred extra bucks and noise somebody that noise somebody that has a way to make a couple hundred bucks. they walk into a store, they fill out a form, they pie a couple of rifles, and they walk out and give it to the guy. he gives them a few hundred bucks and that s that. adrian represented a man who recruited a dozen straw buyers out of this shop in phoenix. including jamie who bought the gun that killed brian terry, and others purchased 290 guns. out of 20 fast and furious defendants, 19 were back on the