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The Department of Justice’s Operation Fast and Furious: Accounts of ATF Agents
JOINT STAFF REPORTPrepared forRep. Darrell E. Issa, ChairmanUnited States House of RepresentativesCommittee on Oversight and Government Reform&Senator Charles E. Grassley, Ranking MemberUnited States SenateCommittee on the Judiciary112
th
CongressJune 14 2011
 
 
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TableofContents
 I.
Executive Summary.................................................................................................................4
II. Table of Names.........................................................................................................................7
III.
Findings...............................................................................................................................9
IV.
The ATF Policy on Gun Interdiction: “You Don’t Get to Go Home”...............................11
A.
The Justification for Operation Fast and Furious...........................................................11
B.
Trained to Interdict.........................................................................................................14
V.
Gunwalking Defined: It’s Semantics.................................................................................18
VI.
Concerns about Gunwalking: “What the Hell is the Purpose of This?”............................21
A.
Concerns Fall on Deaf Ears and Meet Resistance..........................................................21
B.
Tragic, Yet Foreseeable Results.....................................................................................24
C.
Catastrophe Becomes Reality.........................................................................................28
VII.
Witnessing Gunwalking: “We Did Not Stop Them.”.......................................................28
A.
Watching Guns Walk.....................................................................................................29
B.
Ordered to Stand Down..................................................................................................30
C.
“We Were Walking Guns. It was Our Decision.”.........................................................34
VIII.
Collateral Damage: A Fast and Furious Inevitability.....................................................35
A.
Increasing Volume Equals Increasing Success..............................................................35
B.
“You Need to Scramble Some Eggs”.............................................................................38
C.
An Inevitable and Horrible Outcome.............................................................................39
D.
The Pucker Factor..........................................................................................................41
IX.
The Tragic Death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry..............................................43
X.
The Beginning of DOJ’s Denials: “Hell, No!”.................................................................46
 
 
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XI.
DOJ’s Continued Denials: “That is False.”.......................................................................49
A.
“Of Course Not”.............................................................................................................49
B.
More Denials..................................................................................................................51
XII.
Conclusion.........................................................................................................................51
 
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