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national journal s white house correspondent major garrett. host: katie pavlich, what is fast and furious, why does it justify a book? what is the essence of this story from your vantage point? guest: well, essentially, we ll start with what the justice department and this administration claimed fast and furious was going to be, and then we can get into what actually happened. the justice department, in partnership with other agencies and departments like homeland security, claimed that their goal was to send and allow straw purchasers who are people who come in host: straw purchasers of guest: i ll explain it. people who come into gun shops and buy guns for other people, transfer them to criminals and criminal organizations. so what this program, fast and furious, basically was going to do was allow these straw purchasers to come into gun shops in arizona, purchase these guns. they were going to surveil these straw purchasers in the transfers to cartel memb ....
martha: and the other big scandal out there, there are new calls for the gsa to, quote, clean house, at the upper levels of that organization a whistle-blower hotline has now been put in place. that is triggering a whole new set of investigations into this agency. you have more employees calling in to report other instances of taxpayer abuse beyond the federal agencies known vegas spending scandal you see forever in video here. peter doocy joins me live in washington. peter, tell us about this tip line. reporter: martha, the gsa s inspector general yesterday says he doesn t know what they will find from this tip line but it hasn t been pretty. you get a good idea what he means when he compares some of his employees to one of the most notorious gangsters of all time. willie sutton was asked why do you rob banks? he said that s where the money is. and part of the problem is, part of the reason there s a lot of crime and fraud, waste and abuse at gsa a lot of money flo ....
this is one of the most shameful moments in our government s history. this is one of the saddest days. this is the moe, curly and larry show. and we are looking for larry. we will not rest until every person responsible for all of this, no matter where they are, are brought to justice. sean: welcome to this special edition of hannity. tonight we investigate operation fast and furious. the controversial program initiated by the justice department s bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. it grew out of the border initiative call project gun runner. when the program began under the bush administration in 2006, the purpose was to reduce firearms and explosives related to violent crime associated with mexican criminal organizations operating in the u.s. and mexico by preventing these organizations if unlawfully acquiring and trafficking firearms and explosives. for the program that began with the best of intentions expanded after president obama took office and v ....
administration purposely allow the illegal transfer of more than 2,000 weapons that they knew, according to this memo, were going to mexico? guns we saw these individuals buy would turn up at crime scenes in the united states and mexico is who authorized this program that was so felony stupid that you got people killed? it was relayed that they didn t have to explain to me. i was to do as i was told. are they lyle or lying or are you lying? sir, we did not let guns walk. your entitled to your opinion, not to your facts. what you have here is a colossal failure in leadership from within atf, the united states attorney s office and doj. this is one of the most shameful moments in our government s history. this is one of the saddest days. this is the moe, curly and larry show. and we are looking for larry. we will not rest until every person responsible for all of this, no matter where they are, are brought to justice. sean: welcome to this special ....
shameful moments in our government s history. this is one of the saddest days. this is the moe, curly and larry show. and we are looking for larry. we will not rest until every person responsible for all of this, no matter where they are, are brought to justice. sean: welcome to this special edition of hannity. tonight we investigate operation fast and furious. the controversial program initiated by the justice department s bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. it grew out of the border initiative call project gun runner. when the program began under the bush administration in 2006, the purpose was to reduce firearms and explosives related to violent crime associated with mexican criminal organizations operating in the u.s. and mexico by preventing these organizations if unlawfully acquiring and trafficking firearms and explosives. for the program that began with the best of intentions expanded after president obama took office and veered sharply off course. ....