Secret recordings raise questions in ATF scandal

CBS News
September 19, 2011

In a secretly recorded conversation obtained by CBS News, gun store owner Andre Howard is heard speaking with Agent Hope McAllister about the ATF’s “Fast and Furious” operation, and the murder of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.

Gun seller who helped ATF had doubts about the sting

L.A. Times
September 19, 2011

In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard’s Lone Wolf gun store.

They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.

For 15 months, Howard did as he was told. To customers with phony IDs or wads of cash he normally would have turned away, he sold pistols, rifles and semi-automatics. He was assured by the ATF that they would follow the guns and that the surveillance would lead the agents to the violent Mexican drug cartels on the Southwest border.

When Howard heard nothing about any arrests, he questioned the agents. Keep selling, they told him. So hundreds of thousands of dollars more in weapons, including .50-caliber sniper rifles, walked out the front door of his store in a Glendale, Ariz., strip mall.

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  1. Well first of all. Why did he listen to them? His job is not law enforcement. I would have told them I dont have time for their bullshit and dont ask me again. Plain and simpl fuck off.

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