do you want us to stop selling? oh no. continue to sell them. reporter: more than one gun shore panicked as boxes of assault rifles through off their shelves into trucks bound for mexico. i wanted to make sure none of the firearms sold per our conversation could or would end up south of the border or in the hands of the bad guys wrote the scots dale gun club. i m looking for reassures republicans the guns are not going south or in the wrong hands in response the atf lied, assuring dealers their guns would not see mexico. how many hundreds or thousands of weapons did you allow to be purchased, knowing they were going to mexico? the purchase was being done by a criminal organization. you facilitated it. you allowed it, did you not? reporter: newell authorized the operation. he believed sending guns south would expose the network to the smugglers transporters and
rifles. sean: the family is not just to grieve but also to look for answers. we have i one of the men and woman involved in fast and based on my experience are men and women of good faith who wanted to do the right thing. but they hadn t fully thought about the consequences of their actions. that inability to look into the future, to understand the risks they were taking, is their down fall. and maybe, although we don t yet know, the reason for brian terry s tragic death. sean: a very sad, very unnecessary story. if you would like to help the terry family and the families of other fallen border patrol agents go to borderpatrol foundation.org. next, inside mexico where those guns
we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans. that is insane. inreceiveable. you would not ever think that because atf does not do that. if i had known that was in fact occurring, i would have called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed orders. it was relayed to me they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. reporter: agent dodd son blue dodd blew the whistle after the death of brian terry. it ended the program but not the carnage. the brother of a former attorney general tortured and kill, 21 dead in a shootout. helicopter down near mexico city. all crimes committed with guns sent to mexico with u.s. government consent. guns that we saw these individuals buy were turning up at crime scenes in the united states and mexico of the yet we still did nothing.
hearing was> you made a statement in that letter that you signed on the 4th, that said atf makes every effort to interdict weapons that have been purchased illegally and prevent their transportation to mexico. isn t that statement false? now with what you know? obviously, there have been allegations that call in serious question documents now provided made public that lets you know that statement was false? that s why you are investigating. sean: also testifying at the hearing three current atf agents involved with fast and furious. prior to my coming to if he anything i had never been involved in or heard of an operation which law enforcement officers let guns walk. the idea is unthinkable to most law enforcement. i and other field agents
we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans. that is insane. inreceiveable. you would not ever think that because atf does not do that. if i had known that was in fact occurring, i would have called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed orders. it was relayed to me they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. reporter: agent dodd son blue dodd blew the whistle after the death of brian terry. it ended the program but not the carnage. the brother of a former attorney general tortured and kill, 21 dead in a shootout. helicopter down near mexico city. all crimes committed with guns sent to mexico with u.s. government consent. guns that we saw these individuals buy were turning up at crime scenes in the united states and mexico of the yet we still did nothing.