who exposed this, one month after he claims this phoenix group seven was driven over the conflict of gun walking he proposed and completed a separate investigation in which he walked guns. it was the most egregious form in which he used tax colors, handed them off to a suspected firearms purchaser and failed to interdict them. seemingly had no plan to interdict them. this stands in stark contrast to his testimony that if even one gun gets away we never get home until we seize it which he says is the ethos. in this case he left for a four-day vacation which he himself documents in the atf log of his own case.
and i spend a lot of time and energy in my reporting trying to determine just that. that s enormous differences in prosecution styles and prosecutorial interpretation of laws in each jurisdiction. now, dave vogt, the group s supervisor of phoenix group seven in his frustration and despair was actually writing in prosecutors in other jurisdictions. they were going as far as new york to see if they could find prosecutors who would take tease cases. and that was described in some congressional testimony by an atf agent named pete forsele. it s hard to say. i think what you have is a perfect storm of incredibly weak laws in arizona, prosecutors who did not seem particularly eager to enforce the law, and an absolute river of iron onslaught of guns being purchased and pouring across the border. i mean, just to put this in perspective. in arizona where you have 853
that s enormous differences in prosecution styles and prosecutorial interpretation of laws in each jurisdiction. now, dave vogt, the group s supervisor of phoenix group seven in his frustration and despair was actually writing in prosecutors in other jurisdictions. they were going as far as new york to see if they could find prosecutors who would take tease cases. and that was described in some congressional testimony by an atf agent named pete forcelli. it s hard to say. i think what you have is a perfect storm of incredibly weak laws in arizona, prosecutors who did not seem particularly eager to enforce the law, and an absolute river of iron onslaught of guns being purchased and pouring across the border. i mean, just to put this in perspective. in arizona where you have 853
what the republicans have done is pledge an oath to a particular republican politician by name, by pledge allegiance to mitt romney. the most striking one of these was reported in massachusetts. they have seen the full mix of what to do with ronny supporters that took over the delegation to the national republican convention. massachusetts may be written on the s home state, but they took that delegation over just as easily as they took it over in minnesota, nevada, iowa and all the other places. the ron paul takeover in massachusetts ruling republican party plans. not only exciting to have one of their own as the presidential nominee, but the republican leaders wanted to send a big group of big shots, candidates, former elected officials, cheering on the former
has just become of the fast and furious scandal in the howhouse representatives. joining us now is the author of the article the truth about the fast and furious scandal. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. it s a pleasure. you know a lot more about this than i do. i have been covering it for a few days. can you tell me what i got wrong? the only thing you got wrong is i m contributor for fortune, not forbes. and everything you said was absolutely accurate. that s a very humiliating thing to get wrong. i quit, i m sorry. please don t. did agents intentionally walk guns across the border? you tell the story of one instance, one gun, or a handful of guns in that one instance being walked, but that was not part of the fast and furious program. no, and let s set that aside for a moment. 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.