project was operation fast and furious which was run out of the atf's phoenix, arizona field division. it incorporated a new strategy which allowed suspects to walk away with illegally purchased guns in the hope that the purchasers would lead law enforcement to bigger fish in the gun trafficking networks. >> it was then this thing turned ugly. we had a toxic and deadly combination of incompetence, bureaucratic malfeasance and an anti-gun agenda. >> this sense that they needed to do everything in their power to smear gun dealers and blame them for the problem. >> more than 90% of the guns recovered in mexico come if the united states, many from gun shops that line our shared border. >> what is most ironic, if the dealers themselves who were warning these top officials that things had gone wrong. >> it is obvious the largest