i heard about fast and furious for the first time over the last few weeks. what is the biggest geopolitical threat facing america and you said russia. not al qaeda, you said russia. the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. here with reaction is bob beckel. bob, why do they learn everything in the media? is there anything that they it s amazing to me that some of the stuff is learned i would have thought, for example, this latest situation in iraq, which by the way, we should never have been in in the first place and i predicted this was going happen five years ago. that said, why they didn t put agents with all the sunnis and shiites and know this was going to happen is beyond me. so i don t know. but why how is it possible that they learn everything through the media? i don t think they learn everything from the media. every big scandal they learned through the media. you call them scandals, i call them mistakes. mistakes, is that what th
isn t working as well as it should. i heard about fast and furious for the first time over the last few weeks. what is the biggest geopolitical threat facing america and you said russia. the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. here with reaction is bob beckel. bob, why do they learn everything in the media? it s amazing that some of this stuff is learned i would have thought this latest situation in iraq, which we should have never been in the first place and i predicted this five years ago. that said, why they didn t put agents with all the sunnis and shiites and know this was going to happen is beyond me. so i don t know. but why how is it possible that they learn everything through the media? i don t think they learn everything from the media. every big scandal they learned through the media. you call them scandals, i call them mistakes. mistakes, is that what that
called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed ordered. it was relaid to me, they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. agent don johnson blew the whistle after the murder of brian terry. it ended the program, but not the carnage in mexico. a straw buyer would be arrested in the parking lot or down the street. these stores were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney s office, multiple sales approved, no arrests, and no surveillance outside the store. when did you first know about the program officially i believe called fast and furious? to the best of your knowledge, what date? not sure the exact date. but i probably heard about fast and furious for the first time over the past few weeks. the timeline called into question, and the house of representatives actually voted to hold him in contempt of
called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed ordered. it was relaid to me, they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. agent don johnson blew the whistle after the murder of brian terry. it ended the program, but not the carnage in mexico. a straw buyer would be arrested in the parking lot or down the street. these stores were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney s office, multiple sales approved, no arrests, and no surveillance outside the store. when did you first know about the program officially i believe called fast and furious? to the best of your knowledge, what date? not sure the exact date. but i probably heard about fast and furious for the first time over the past few weeks. the timeline called into question, and the house of representatives actually voted to hold him in contempt of
called atf headquarters. reporter: most agents didn t know about fast and furious. those who did, followed ordered. it was relaid to me, they didn t have to explain anything to me. i was to do as i was told. agent don johnson blew the whistle after the murder of brian terry. it ended the program, but not the carnage in mexico. a straw buyer would be arrested in the parking lot or down the street. these stores were recruited by the atf and u.s. attorney s office, multiple sales approved, no arrests, and no surveillance outside the store. when did you first know about the program officially i believe called fast and furious? to the best of your knowledge, what date? not sure the exact date. but i probably heard about fast and furious for the first time over the past few weeks. the timeline called into question, and the house of representatives actually voted to hold him in contempt of