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==About==
 
==About==
 
"[[Operation Fast and Furious]]", or just "Fast & Furious" (F&F), was the name of an investigation run by federal [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|ATF]] agents and federal prosecutors in Arizona whose purpose was to stop gun traffickers in [[Arizona]], the state ranked by the gun-control advocacy group [[Legal Community Against Violence]] as having the nation's "weakest gun violence prevention laws."
 
"[[Operation Fast and Furious]]", or just "Fast & Furious" (F&F), was the name of an investigation run by federal [[Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives|ATF]] agents and federal prosecutors in Arizona whose purpose was to stop gun traffickers in [[Arizona]], the state ranked by the gun-control advocacy group [[Legal Community Against Violence]] as having the nation's "weakest gun violence prevention laws."
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It is significant to note that although F&F was very similar to a smaller operation under the [[Bush-Cheney administration|Bush administration]], [[Operation Wide Receiver]] (OWR), under OWR there had been a formal ATF contract with the cooperating gun dealer and efforts were made to involve the ATF Mexico City Office (MCO) and Mexican law enforcement. Under F&F, at the insistence of Bill Newell, special agent in charge of ATF's Phoenix field division, the cooperating gun dealers did not have contracts with ATF, and MCO and Mexican police were left in the dark (according to the [[/Horowitz report]]).
  
 
The operation appears to have become a scandal when agent [[Brian Terry]] was killed on {{date|2010-12-14}} in an attack by Mexican bandits on an elite US Border Patrol unit, leaving behind two semiautomatic rifles whose serial numbers indicated that they had been purchased 11 months earlier at a Phoenix-area gun store by a F&F suspect. It was subsequently discovered that F&F operations had allowed thousands of guns to be sold to operatives of Mexican drug gangs who then smuggled them across the border for use in the drug war.
 
The operation appears to have become a scandal when agent [[Brian Terry]] was killed on {{date|2010-12-14}} in an attack by Mexican bandits on an elite US Border Patrol unit, leaving behind two semiautomatic rifles whose serial numbers indicated that they had been purchased 11 months earlier at a Phoenix-area gun store by a F&F suspect. It was subsequently discovered that F&F operations had allowed thousands of guns to be sold to operatives of Mexican drug gangs who then smuggled them across the border for use in the drug war.
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| {{wp/alt|Project Gunrunner}} is begun as a pilot project in Laredo, Texas.
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| valign=top | '''2006'''
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| [[Operation Wide Receiver]] begins as part of Project Gunrunner - Tucson gun dealer Mike Detty, under supervision by the ATF, sells about 450 guns to straw buyers; the majority of these guns were eventually lost as they moved into Mexico, despite assurance from ATF "that Mexican officials would be conducting surveillance or interdictions when guns got to the other side of the border".
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| valign=top | '''2007'''
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| [[Operation Wide Receiver]] ends; no arrests or indictments were made.
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| valign=top | '''2009'''
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| The Obama DOJ reviews Wide Receiver and finds that guns had been allowed into the hands of suspected gun traffickers.
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| valign=top | '''2009-10-26'''
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| US strategy for fighting Mexican drug cartels is the subject of a teleconference at the DoJ. They decided on a strategy to identify and eliminate entire arms trafficking networks rather than low-level buyers. Gunwalking is apparently not discussed.
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| valign=top | '''2009-10-31'''
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| [[Operation Fast and Furious]] begins (although it is not yet called by this name) when a local gun store reported to the Phoenix ATF that four individuals had purchased multiple AK47 style rifles.
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| valign=top | '''2010'''
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| The Obama DOJ begins indictments regarding gunwalking under Wide Receiver. By October 4, 2011, nine people had been charged with making false statements in acquisition of firearms and illicit transfer, shipment or delivery of firearms. By November, charges against one defendant had been dropped; five of them had pled guilty, and one had been sentenced to one year and one day in prison. Two of them remained fugitives
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| valign=top | '''2010-12-14'''
 
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| US border agent [[Brian Terry]] is killed
 
| US border agent [[Brian Terry]] is killed
 
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| valign=top | '''2011-03-31'''
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| ATF is subpoenaed (by the [[Committee on Oversight and Government Reform|COGR]]?)
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| [[MediaMatters]]
 
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| valign=top | '''2011-06-29'''
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| a reporter asks the [[Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]] about the Dodson documents, later alleged to be a "leak" from [[Dennis Burke]]
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| [[/Horowitz report]]
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| valign=top | '''2011-08-11'''
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| Inspector General Horowitz initiates an investigation into the Dodson documents
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| valign=top | '''2011-08-30'''
 
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| [http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/30/fast.and.furious.melson/ ATF head reassigned in wake of 'Fast and Furious' controversy]
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* [[Dennis Burke]] resigns
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* [http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/08/30/fast.and.furious.melson/ ATF head reassigned in wake of 'Fast and Furious' controversy]
 
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| valign=top | '''2011-08-31'''
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| [http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/20110830us-attorney-arizona-burke-resigns30-ON.html U.S. Attorney for Arizona Dennis Burke resigns]
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| reporting ([[Dennis Burke]])
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| valign=top | '''2011-12-08'''
 
| valign=top | '''2011-12-08'''
 
| [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57339294/lawmakers-heads-should-roll-over-gun-walking/ Lawmakers: Heads should roll over gun-walking]
 
| [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57339294/lawmakers-heads-should-roll-over-gun-walking/ Lawmakers: Heads should roll over gun-walking]
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| valign=top | '''2012-09-21'''
 
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| [http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/president-obama-falsely-claims-fast-and-furious-program-begun-under-the-previous-administration/ President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program "Begun Under the Previous Administration"]
 
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| criticism: false claim
 
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| valign=top | '''2012-02-10'''
 
| valign=top | '''2012-02-10'''
 
| [http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/02/10/nras-lapierre-returns-to-fox-to-promote-fast-an/186509 NRA's LaPierre Returns To Fox To Promote Fast And Furious Conspiracy]
 
| [http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/02/10/nras-lapierre-returns-to-fox-to-promote-fast-an/186509 NRA's LaPierre Returns To Fox To Promote Fast And Furious Conspiracy]
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| valign=top | '''2012-04-19'''
 
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| [http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/04/19/fast-and-fallacious-pavlichs-book-on-atf-operat/185319 Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich's Book On ATF Operation Filled With Falsehoods]
 
| [http://mediamatters.org/research/2012/04/19/fast-and-fallacious-pavlichs-book-on-atf-operat/185319 Fast And Fallacious: Pavlich's Book On ATF Operation Filled With Falsehoods]
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| valign=top | '''2012-04-23'''
 
| valign=top | '''2012-04-23'''
 
| [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/04/23/fast-and-spurious-katie-pavlichs-atf-conspiracy/186322 Fast And Spurious: Katie Pavlich's ATF Conspiracy]
 
| [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/04/23/fast-and-spurious-katie-pavlichs-atf-conspiracy/186322 Fast And Spurious: Katie Pavlich's ATF Conspiracy]
 
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| valign=top | '''2012-05-03'''
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| [http://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Update-on-Fast-and-Furious-with-attachment-FINAL.pdf Update on Operation Fast and Furious]: [[/Issa memo]] makes the "[[/take them down]]" allegation
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| valign=top | '''2012-05-17'''
 
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| [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/17/issa-report-again-debunks-right-wing-medias-fas/185391 Issa Report Again Debunks Right-Wing Media's Fast And Furious Conspiracy Theory]
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| [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/05/17/issa-report-again-debunks-right-wing-medias-fas/185391 Issa Report Again Debunks Right-Wing Media's Fast And Furious Conspiracy Theory]: [[/Issa memo]]
 
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| [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/fast-and-furious-us-attorney-sought-discredit-agen/ Fast and Furious: U.S. Attorney sought to discredit agent by leaking documents]
 
| [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/20/fast-and-furious-us-attorney-sought-discredit-agen/ Fast and Furious: U.S. Attorney sought to discredit agent by leaking documents]
 
| ''[[Washington Times]]''
 
| ''[[Washington Times]]''
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| [http://www.grassley.senate.gov/about/upload/2012-06-29-CEG-DEI-to-DOJ-OIG-Thomasson-whistleblower-retaliation.pdf letter] from [[Darrell Issa]] and [[Chuck Grassley]] to [[Michael Horowitz]] making the "[[/take them down]]" allegation
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| [http://www.grassley.senate.gov/about/upload/2012-06-29-CEG-DEI-to-DOJ-OIG-Thomasson-whistleblower-retaliation.pdf letter] from [[Darrell Issa]] and [[Chuck Grassley]] to [[Michael Horowitz]] repeating the "[[/take them down]]" allegation
 
| [[Chuck Grassley]] / [[Darrell Issa]]
 
| [[Chuck Grassley]] / [[Darrell Issa]]
 
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| [http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/president-obama-falsely-claims-fast-and-furious-program-begun-under-the-previous-administration/ President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program "Begun Under the Previous Administration"]
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| valign=top | '''2012-09-21'''
 
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| [[/2012/09/21/HF|5 Ways Fast & Furious Tarnishes Eric Holder's Justice Department]]
 
| [[/2012/09/21/HF|5 Ways Fast & Furious Tarnishes Eric Holder's Justice Department]]

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