The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose

The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious
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A hard-hitting inside account of the Fast and Furious scandalâ€”the government-sponsored program intended to â€œwin the drug warâ€ by providing and tracking gun sales across the border to Mexicoâ€”from whistle-blower and ATF agent John Dodson.

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodson pulled bodies out of the wreckage at the Pentagon. In 2007, following the shooting massacre at Virginia Tech, John Dodson walked through the classrooms, heartbroken, to cover up the bodies of the victims.

Then came Arizona. The American border.

Ten days before Christmas, 2010, ATF agent John Dodson awoke to the news he had dreaded every day as a member of the elite team called the Group VII Strike Force: a U.S. border patrol agent named Brian Terry had been shot dead by bandits armed with guns that had been supplied to them by ATF. Was this an inevitable consequence of the Obama administrationâ€™s Project Gunrunner, set in place one year earlier ostensibly to track Mexican drug cartels?

Brian Terryâ€™s murder would not only change John Dodsonâ€™s life forever; it would reveal a scandal so unthinkably unpatriotic that it forced President Barack Obama to claim executive privilege and caused Attorney General Eric Holder to be held in contempt of Congress.

Federal Agent John Dodson, an ex-military man, took an oath to defend the worldâ€™s greatest country, and proudly considered himself a walking patriotic example of the American Dream. Brian Terry, ex-military like Dodson, was only forty years old, a family man who served his country by working for the government.

Dodson was terrified when the next phone call came, one with the potential to destroy his career, his family, and his life. CBS investigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Dodson to go public with what he knew about Fast and Furious. To Agent Dodson, this meant blowing the whistle. But to the family of Agent Terry, it was a chance to save lives and right a wrong. As he took a fight from the border towns of Arizona to a showdown in the halls of Congress, John Dodson clung to the hope that truth would prevail, that he would be redeemed, and that Brian Terryâ€™s death would not be in vain.

Like whistle-blowers before him, John would not be welcome back on the job. But he found strength in his conscience, in the support of the American public, and in Senators Darryl Issa and Chuck Grassley. When his first-amendment rights to publicly tell his story were threatened, the ACLU took up his case. For her report revealing John Dodson as the key whistle-blower in Fast and Furious, Sharyl Attkisson received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

Ultimately, John Dodson was cleared by the Inspector Generalâ€™s office, publicly heralded as a hero, and returned to Arizona.

Perhaps a lesson gleaned from John Dodsonâ€™s powerful account is well stated by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn: â€œIf you always tell the truth, you donâ€™t have to remember what you said.â€
Country USA
Brand Threshold Editions
Manufacturer Threshold Editions
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781476727554
ReleaseDate 2013-12-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781476727554

Country	USA
Brand	Threshold Editions
Manufacturer	Threshold Editions
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781476727554
ReleaseDate	2013-12-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781476727554

The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious

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