Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110927:16:29:00
Cartels. what is different here is the federal government became the buyer and seller of illegal guns, we became the middle man, increasing america's culpability and in a case mexico was investigating as a crime. >> the purchase was being done by a criminal organization. >> reporter: so far, federal officials claim operation fast & furious only allowed guns to be sold to criminals, however, new records show the atf actually bought weapons, using taxpayer money, sold them to a suspected cartel buyer, then watched as the guns disappeared. >> it made no sense to us either. it's just what we were ...