what there was was a protracted struggle to arrest kids, not even old enough to buy beer, who were obviously straw purchasers, andรง there was a continual struggle with prosecutors because as they interpreted the laws, the steales were legal, t francefers were legal, and the agents did not have grounds to make seizures or arrests. you write about sort of incredible anecdotal stories about the straw purchasers. a person low income enough to be on food stamps, nevertheless, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on weaponry. a young unemployed person spending five figures on a 50 caliber sniper rifle on a tripod. is it illegal to be a straw purchaser, and if it is, why didn t they get arrested? that s a great question. it s illegal to be a straw purchasers, but how do you make
in the fast and furious case which was one investigation into a group of straw purchasers, there was no operational tactic by atf to walk guns. what there was was a protracted struggle to arrest kids, not even old enough to buy beer, who were obviously straw purchasers, and there was a continual struggle with prosecutors because as they interpreted the laws, the sales were legal, the francefers were legal, and the agents did not have grounds to make seizures or arrests. you write about sort of incredible anecdotal stories about the straw purchasers. a person low income enough to be on food stamps, nevertheless, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on weaponry. a young unemployed person spending five figures on a 50 caliber sniper rifle on a tripod. isit illegal to be a straw purchaser, and if it is, why
it is almost too much to believe, isn t it? go ahead. like it s a bad dream. like i m going to wake up. it s like they weren t telling us something that we wanted to hear. it was a fog. you have been watching what has been going on, you watch congressional hearings. let me remind our audience and remind you congressman darrell issa questioning eric holder on the loss of your son. let me play this for you. who exactly was involved? what level of knowledge was, who should be held accountable if, in fact, there were mistakes that were made. that s what the inspector general will be looking at. what am i going to tell agent terry s mother about how he died at the hand of a gun that was videotaped as it was sold to a straw purchaser, fully expecting it to end up in the hands of drug cartels? one will have to see exactly what happened with regard to the
it is almost too much to believe, isn t it? go ahead. like it s a bad dream. like i m going to wake up. it s like they weren t telling us something that we wanted to hear. it was a fog. you have been watching what has been going on, you watch congressional hearings. let me remind our audience and remind you congressman darrell issa questioning eric holder on the loss of your son. let me play this for you. who exactly was involved? what level of knowledge was, who should be held accountable if, in fact, there were mistakes that were made. that s what the inspector general will be looking at. what am i going to tell agent terry s mother about how he died at the hand of a gun that was videotaped as it was sold to a straw purchaser, fully expecting it to end up in the hands of drug cartels? one will have to see exactly what happened with regard to the
better. and it s not just brian terry who was killed, it s also hundreds of mexican citizens that have been killed with guns provided to them by mexico s number one straw purchaser, and that happens to be the attorney general of the united states. as an attorney i know that the documents that they are asking for are attorney work product that are not admissible in court and shouldn t be admissible in this hearing. they are not in court. well no this attorney work product is privileged information. you don t know what they all are. absolutely. they this is government oversight. they want to have the warrant request, things that they aren t entitled to and shouldn t have. what do you mean not entitled to and shouldn t have. he has testified eight times. yeah. they keep moving the goal post asking for more because they want to trip him up and they have nothing else. shannon: christopher hahn they say they haven t got even the documents they originally requested i