After 10 Years, U.S. Citizens AND Mexican Citizens Deserve Answers
Television interviews via Skype or Zoom with Alan Gottlieb.
Radio interviews by phone with choice of 4 guest spokesmen.
It’s been almost ten years since the Fast & Furious gunrunning scandal was exposed during the Obama-Biden administration. The unprecedented illegal gunrunning operation wasn’t run by some mafia thug, but rather by the then-Obama-Biden government.
Joe Biden and former Attorney General Eric Holder, as well as the ATF, allowed more than 2,000 firearms to get into criminal hands in Mexico, resulting in many deaths and injuries, including the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry.
Here to help get overdue answers is Alan Gottlieb, founder of Citizens Committee to Keep and Bear Arms.
Q&A:
- Give us some brief background on how the U.S. government essentially ran an illegal gunrunning operation during the Obama-Biden years.
Answer: The Obama/Biden administration at first feigned ignorance, then withheld thousands of subpoenaed documents from the House Oversight Committee, claiming executive privilege until a federal court ordered them to be turned over to investigators. One ATF agent told the Committee that Fast & Furious was ‘the perfect storm of idiocy.’
- Border Agent Brian Terry was killed in this illegal, deadly operation, was he not?
Answer: Sadly, yes, because Brian’s wife was made a widow and their children fatherless.
- What about Mexico citizens who died needlessly in this seemingly inexplicable deadly operation?
Answer: We can certainly sympathize with Mexican President and he and his citizens certainly deserve answers.
- How does the Fast & Furious operation rank in annals of U.S. scandals such as the Teapot Dome or Watergate?
Answer: Watergate was a bungled third-rate burglary with no lives lost. Fast & Furious was a scandal of monumental proportions resulting in the loss of lives with guns provided to criminals, courtesy of Joe Biden and Barack Obama, neither of whom have come clean. Mexico and every U.S. citizen deserves not only an apology, but Holder and several other former Obama/Biden administration officials should have been criminally prosecuted. Bad actors should be punished, not law-abiding American gun owners, yet Joe Biden ins still conscionably standing by his proposals to punish with his gun control agenda if elected president.
- So, after Obama and Biden were busted in this scandal, they likely moved away from their gun-grabbing positions and supported the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms, right?
Answer: Incredibly, the Obama-Biden administration used this fiasco as an excuse to implement new requirements for firearms dealers in the Southwest, as if gun dealers were to blame for what happened when it was the Obama-Biden administration that run this operation.
- But wasn’t Eric Holder held in criminal and civil contempt of Congress for his actions and inactions?
Answer: Yes, he was the first Attorney General in history to be held in criminal and civil contempt of Congress.
- What would you like to see now as we approach the 10-year anniversary of this gunrunning sting run amuck?
Answer: Any apology should come from those responsible. That would be Obama, Biden, Holder and the ATF and Justice Department officials who cooked up this outrageous scheme.
- Where may we get more information on these cases and your group?
Answer: SAF.org
EXPERT GUESTS AVAILABLE TO INTERVIEW ON THIS TOPIC:
ABOUT ALAN GOTTLIEB (In Pacific Time):
Alan is a strong advocate of defense. He’s a nuclear engineering graduate of the University of Tennessee, publisher of Gun Week, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and Founder of the Second Amendment Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the American Conservative Union.
ABOUT MARK WALTERS (in Eastern Time):
Mark Walters is a national board member of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms and a broadcast media spokesman for the Second Amendment Foundation.
Recipient of the 2015 Gun Rights Defender of the Year Award, Mark Walters is a weekly national columnist for Ammoland, and author of three books, Lessons from Armed America with Kathy Jackson: foreword by Massad Ayoob, Lessons from Unarmed America with Rob Pincus: foreword by Ted Nugent, and Grilling While Armed.
Mark is the host of two nationally syndicated talk radio programs, Armed American Radio, and Armed American Radio’s Daily Defense heard on hundreds of radio stations across the country, six days per week. In addition,
Mark has appeared on national and international radio and television on gun-related stories and is a popular podium speaker on firearms topics. Mark is a husband and father of two children and resides in Georgia with his family.
ABOUT DAVE WORKMAN (In Pacific Time):
Dave Workman is an award-winning career journalist and senior editor of TheGunMag.com (formerly Gun Week).
He also writes for Liberty Park Press, Conservative Firing Line and several firearms periodicals. He is also the communications director for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
He has authored Op-Ed pieces in several major newspapers including the Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He has also co-authored seven books with Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation.
Workman’s beat is firearms, from politics to the outdoors. He is widely considered an authority on firearms, concealed carry and gun politics.
ABOUT STEPHEN WILLEFORD (In Central Time):
A native of Sutherland Springs, Texas, Stephen Willeford was raised in a family of five on a dairy farm near the First Baptist Church. He is the fourth generation to live on a few hundred acres of land in Wilson County.
Stephen has always relied on his faith to guide his life, and his deep roots in Sutherland Springs are a product of his family’s commitment to their community. An avid sportsman, Stephen began shooting at a young age and honed his shooting skills by participating in shooting competitions as he grew older. He made sure his three children were trained in gun safety, passing along his expertise.
After the deadly mass shooting in November 2017, Stephen has become known across the country as the “good guy with a gun.” Stephen credits his unwavering faith and penchant for preparedness as to why he was able to step in during this critical incident, believing that each day of his life prepared him for what happened on that Sunday morning.
Stephen has begun speaking publicly about his life and experiences, even delivering a lauded speech at the National Rifle Association Convention in May 2018. Because of his selfless service to his community, Stephen was also an honored guest of members of the Texas delegation at the 2018 State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.
An experienced professional plumber, Stephen earned his license from the Plumbers and Pipefitters Apprenticeship School in San Antonio and has nearly 35 years of experience in his field. In 2018, Governor Greg Abbott appointed Stephen to serve on the Texas Private Security Board. He is a member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), was an NRA-certified instructor and a former assistant scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America. Stephen has been married to Pam Farmer Willeford for 30 years and has three children and three grandchildren.
ABOUT TOM GRESHAM (In Central Time):
Tom Gresham is a spokesman for 2nd Amendment Foundation. He hosts the nationally syndicated weekend radio talk show ‘Tom Gresham’s Gun Talk,’ carried on 266 stations. He also has created, hosted and directed several television series about guns including Shooting Sports America on ESPN, and Guns and Gear on NBC Sports. An author of several books, Tom has also written thousands of magazine articles about firearms.
ABOUT THE 2ND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION:
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
