Fast and Furious Lib/E: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up

by Katie Pavlich

Two hundred and rising. That's the death tally for the Obama administration's "Operation Fast & Furious." The program was supposedly designed to "win the drug war" by deliberately walking more than two thousand guns across the border to Mexico. But instead of catching drug lords, Fast & Furious armed the very king pins it was supposed to trap. Despite the protests of gun store owners and ATF whistle-blowers, federal agents deliberately violated federal law--and common sense--and wound up placing American weapons into the hands of Mexico's most violent criminals. And when the guns started showing up at crime scenes--including the murder scene of a U.S. border patrol agent--the cover-up began. So reveals Townhall editor Katie Pavlich in her news-breaking exposé Fast and Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal. While the White House has claimed ignorance of the program, Pavlich debunks their lies, denials and excuses by demonstrating incontestable proof that President Obama and Attorney General Holder did willfully and knowingly sanction the program in order to advance their anti-second amendment agenda. A horrifying look at one of the bloodiest scandals in the history of the American presidency, Fast and Furious is this season's sensational, must-listen book that will rock America--and the Obama administration--to its core.

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Published April 17, 2012

About the author

Katie Pavlich is the news editor for Townhall.com and a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine. She is the award winning author of the New York Times Best Seller Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up. As a reporter, she has covered topics ranging from White House scandals and the 2012 presidential election to the Second Amendment and border issues. As a Fox News contributor, Katie regularly co-hosts the daytime show Outnumbered, has filled in as a guest co-host on the The Five and as a guest host on Hannity. Katie is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Journalism and is a former National Review Washington Fellow. Katie has shared her perspective on multiple media venues including, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox Business, in addition to a host of national and local radio shows. She is a regular speaker on college campuses across the country.

Reviews

[Steven H · Rating 2 out of 5]

A JOURNALIST SHEDS LIGHT ON THE "GUNWALKING" SCANDAL

Katie Pavlich is news editor for Townhall Magazine, and a TV commentator. She wrote in the first chapter of this 2012 book, "the AK-47 that had fired the round that killed [Border Patrol Agency] Brian [Terry] had been sold to the Mexican drug cartels under the supervision of the United States government... which had intentionally funneled arms to the drug cartels' borderland killers... millions of bewildered Americans ... were left with one haunting question: Why?" (Pg. 14)

She observes, "Obama has long believed one of the best solutions to crime prevention is the reinstatement of the Clinton-era assault weapons ban." (Pg. 18) She adds, "As a deputy attorney general in Janet Reno's Clinton-era Justice Department, [Eric] Holder backed the assault weapons ban and defended the department's bungled attack on the Branch Davidian compound... He favored requiring safety locks for all guns, gun-buyer background checks, and a strenuous certification process for all handgun owners." (Pg. 21)

She traces the origins of Fast and Furious from "an ATF initiative known as Project Gunrunner, which had begun in 2005... The program aimed at arresting illegal 'straw' purchasers... to help stem the flow of guns going to the cartels... The (ATF) eTrace system enables law enforcement agents to track the serial numbers of guns found at crime scenes to their point of purchase." (Pg. 28)

She summarizes: "There are still 1,400 Fast and Furious guns missing, and ATF agents are not actively trying to track them down. Ten thousand rounds of ammunition were sold to cartel-linked straw buyers under the watch of the ATF. Eight hundred of the original 2,500 weapons sold through Fast and Furious have already been linked to criminal activity." (Pg. 154)

This is an interesting, opinionated, and challenging account of this ongoing scandal. It will be of interest to critics of the Obama administration, and to gun rights supporters.