ATF tries to block whistleblowing agent’s Fast and Furious book
1st Amendment battle over ‘gun-walking’ expose
ATF officials permitted more than 1,700 semi-automatic weapons to flow through the hands of straw buyers for the Mexican cartels, with many crossing the border...
...hundreds of the weapons began showing up at crime scenes on both sides of the border, including at the December 2010 murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry...
The Justice Department initially denied guns knowingly had been allowed to flow across the border, then months later reversed course and admitted the tactic had been used for more than a year. The change in story led to allegations of a cover-up...
President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. both claimed they knew nothing about [operation Fast and Furious], but the president has invoked executive privilege to block Congress from seeing certain documents...
Like other administration scandals, this one has been dragging out long enough; the truth needs to be disclosed to the American public—including the family of Brian Terry.
For some background information regarding the "whistleblowers" behind operation Fast and Furious, see the website Clean Up ATF.