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Promised to get to the bottom of the problem. we know now that rick holder has been the source of the problem all along. >> sean: june 13th, first hearing on operation fast and furious was held by the house oversight . at the hearings committee chairman darrell issa grilled the an is -- at assistant ag. >> you said atf makes every effort to interdeck -- interdict weapons. isn't that statement false now with what you know? >> obviously, there have been allegations that call into serious question -- >> documents now provided lets you know that statement was false? >> that's why you are investiga...

Out to suppress in 2009, congress gave the atf, 21.9 million dollars to support and expand the program called project gun runner. one of the offshoots of the program was operation fast and furious which was run out of atf's phoenix, arizona field division. it incorporated a new strategy which allowed suspects to 7w%g0i away with illegally purchased guns in the hope that the straw purchases would lead law enforcement to bigger fish in the networks. >> it was then that this turned ugly. what we had was a toxic and deadly combination of incompetence, bureaucratic malfeasance and an anti-gun agend...

Administration purposely allow the illegal transfer of more than 2,000 weapons that they knew, according to this memo, were going to mexico? >> guns we saw these individuals buy would turn up at crime scenes in the united states and mexico is >> who authorized this program that was so felony stupid that you got people killed? >> it was relayed that they didn't have to explain to me. i was to do as i was told. >> are they lyle or -- lying or are you lying? >> sir, we did not let guns walk. your entitled to your opinion, not to your facts. >> what you have here is a colossal failure in leadershi...

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Administration purposely allow the illegal transfer of more than 2,000 weapons that they knew, according to this memo, were going to mexico? >> guns we saw these individuals buy would turn up at crime scenes in the united states and mexico is >> who authorized this program that was so felony stupid that you got people killed? >> it was relayed that they didn't have to explain to me. i was to do as i was told. >> are they lyle or -- lying or are you lying? >> sir, we did not let guns walk. your entitled to your opinion, not to your facts. >> what you have here is a colossal failure in leadershi...