Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General
A Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters
Report · written September 2012 · released September 2012
Why this matters
The Inspector General's account of the ATF operation that let some 2,000 firearms 'walk' to traffickers, guns later found at crime scenes in Mexico and at the killing of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry. It found serious failures of judgment from field to headquarters. Far more detailed than the congressional fights it fed.
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https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/2012/s1209.pdf
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Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General. "A Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters." September 2012. Released September 2012. https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/reports/2012/s1209.pdf (accessed via The Quiet Archive, QA-0067).
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