By TAL KOPAN Politico WASHINGTON — Rep. Darrell Issa and Sen. Chuck Grassley sent a letter to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday demanding more information about the agency’s decision to prohibit the agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious from publishing his book. The House Oversight and…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ATF’s reason for blocking his book about the botched and deadly Operation Fast and Furious is “absurd,” the author said, the Dallas Morning News reports. John Dodson, an ATF special agent who blew the whistle on the operation, said the book reveals important information about missteps in the agency. “I think…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The December 2010 slaying of Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry shed light on the U.S. government’s botched gun-smuggling investigation, Operation Fast and Furious, The Washington Times reports. Now a third suspect is in custody in the shootout that left Terry dead in the Arizona borderlands. Police in Sinaloa, Mexico, arrested suspect…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Mexican man who pleaded guilty to killing a Border Patrol agent in 2010 and whose case revealed the botched “Fast and Furious” investigation is to be sentenced Sept. 10, the Associated Press reports. Manuel Osorio-Arellanes is one of five men accused of killing Agent Brian Terry, but he’s the only one…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A fed judge in D.C. appeared skeptical of the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit centering on the poorly thought out ATF operation known as Fast and Furious, according to the Associated Press. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has filed a lawsuit seeking records related to the operation….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ICE agents along the Arizona border became aware that ATF was allowing illegal guns to cross the border as part of the bungled Fast & Furious investigation, the Washington Guardian reports. But ICE agents, who were concerned and talked to local ATF officials about the unusual probe, never took the complaints to…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com ATF Special Agent John Dodson, who was sidelined after blowing the whistle on the botched gun-running operation Fast and Furious, has been cleared by his bosses and now is considered a hero, Fox News reports. John Dodson has been cleared of any wrongdoing, was praised by Congress for bringing the botched operation…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Two weapons linked to the botched gun-trafficking Operation Fast and Furious were found at the scene of a deadly drug cartel gunfight last month, the Tribune Washington Bureau reports. The guns – an AK-47 assault rifle and 5.7 mm pistol – illustrate that some of the 2,000 weapons lost under Operation Fast and…
