GREENVILLE, SC – More than a year after ATF Special Agent John Dodson first blew the whistle on the scandal known as Operation Fast and Furious, Dodson says he is “disheartened and disappointed” by the congressional investigation and Attorney General Eric Holder’s handling of the botched gunrunning probe.
“I am here today because it’s been a year since the first hearing and Brian Terry’s family still doesn’t have answers,” Dodson said from his living room in Greenville, S.C.
In his first interview since February 2011, when he first revealed the U.S. government was helping run guns to Mexican cartels, Dodson exclusively told Fox News he has no regrets.
“We did it. I was there. I was part of it. You don’t get to lie about it. That is not who we are,” Dodson said.
According to records, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives operation sent some 2,500 guns to the Sinaloa Cartel from September 2009 to January 2011. Agents asked American gun dealers to sell the weapons and report the transactions immediately to the ATF. Despite their misgivings, most firearms dealers went along. When the guns began showing up immediately at crime scenes in Mexico, Dodson warned his supervisors their operation was going to kill an American law enforcement officer, not to mention hundreds of Mexicans.
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I am wondering if this will just die. I believed Issa but when him and Holder are making a deal, I am quite sure I will not behappy. Eric Holder should have had to go before the entire committee and state what he was willing to do and they should have stuck to their guns and said they need all the requested documents on or before the date of the Contempt vote. No compromises.
You’re right. There should be NO conpromising on this felonous act. We Americans are, also, dissapointed in the wimps in the U.S. House who won’t do their job and prosecute Holder(man) for contempt of court and remove him from office, now. Their caving-in will cause them to lose in the end. The only way to win is to stand one’s ground like Gov. Walker of Wisconsin did. He won in the end. See website: http://www.haasstrep68.com
Where are the Woodwards and Bernsteins of 2012? I have to go to Canada Free Press and the Telegraph from Britain to find out what is going on in the U.S. A friend from Bangladesh has told me he finds out more about what is going on in America when visiting his homeland than when here. Bangladesh? A third world press is better with the truth than ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS, NPR, TIME, Newsweek, the NY Times and Washington Post combined. Who would have ever thought our “free” press would have deteriorated to this pathetic group of scumbags?
If you would stick with Fox, you would hear all the latest news. It is a known fact that the stations you listed do not report the news as it happens. We don’t need Woodward or Bernstein.
The “Less” than Honorable AG Eric H. Holder Jr; should be wearing an orange jumpsuit as should the “Manchurian Candidate”. Holder can not, nor will he ever release the documents that Congressman Darrell Issa has been searching for these past eighteen months, the reason being is that Eric Holder works directly for the “Manchurian Candidate” and the two of them planned and executed the failed operation “Fast and Furious”.
The documents and correspondence that Issa is searching for will never be provided for the reasons stated above. We have a “Do-Nothing” Congress, since if there was one Senator or one Congressman that would honor their oath of office, they would demand an investigation into the “Manchurian Candidates” eligibility to hold office. This farce has been going on long enough. His father, if Obama Ss, was in fact his father was a British Subject, there is no disputing that, even the “Manchurian Candidate” has said that more than once.
If his father was a British Subject so was and is he. At best if the “Manchurian Candidate” was born in Hawaii, he would then have dual citizenship and having dual citizenship he would not be considered a “Natural Born Citizen”. Also his mother was 17 when he was born and as such she could not pass of American Citizenship to him either. So once again, this farce has been going on long enough and some members of Congress should grow a backbone and demand a Congressional hearing to review all of the evidence, demand that the “Manchurian Candidate” release all of the records that he has sealed and then arrest him and charge him with treason.
America is the laughing stock of the world, everyone knows that the “Manchurian Candidate”: is not eligible to be president yet the only group of people, the Senators and Congressmen that could put an end to this madness, sit back as the “Manchurian Candidate” methodically goes about destroying all that the Constitution once stood for.
The Supreme Court is taking their sweet time on ruling on Obama-Care and SB 1070, there is no reason why they have not come out with their ruling. The ramifications of their decision will have the greatest impact on America which is why they should not keep their ruling from the American people.
Obama is running America exactly like what he is which is a Dictator and not a President. He rules by passing “Executive Order’s”, the most recent one he himself said last year was beyond his authority to bring about, so what happened to change all of that nothing other than the “Manchurian Candidate” is flexing his muscles and showing the American people that he could care less about Congress or the Constitution and that he will do exactly what he wants exactly when he wants and if we don’t like it, tough, suck it up.
The one and only good thing that the “Manchurian Candidate”has accomplished is that he has exposed our “Do-Nothing” Congress for being a bunch of weak spineless useless individuals that should all be replaced with individuals that love America and respect the rule of law and if elected will unlike the group of Senators and Congressmen that we now have respect and honor the Constitution.
All these re not going tohappen yesterday ibn spite of what you want. Issues such as you discussed take time to gather all the information needed, to processe papers, etc. ssd fr asd the health care bill, that is not the only thing the Supreme Court has to consider. It’s a shame that none of it is going fast enough for you, but quit whining about it. The president has not exposed anyone in Congress. all that he has proven is that he is not bi-partisan and does not intend to cooperate with any bi-pasrtisan Congress. the only thing he has exsposed is his arrogance. Most of his executive orderd are illegal. He does not use them for the purpose for which they were intended.
There will be a compromise. The Republicans in the House will not capitulate to Issa. Issa’s right, but we have Boehner the limpid as the Speaker of the House.
Boehner cried on the floor of the House begging his fellow Representatives to vote for Obamacare, the most hated bill to come before that once August body.
Get out and vote.
Peace,
Robert Walker