Dan Quayle: “It has been more than 1 year since the tragic death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed using…”

“It has been more than 1 year since the tragic death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was killed using weapons that were purposely walked to deadly drug cartels in Mexico as part of Operation Fast and Furious. Since Agent Terry's death, the responsible Federal Department, the Justice Department, and its leader, Attorney General Eric Holder, have obfuscated every attempt to get to the bottom of what went wrong with this disastrous operation. Despite the best efforts of the Justice Department to hide the facts, we now know many disturbing things about Fast and Furious. This ill- conceived operation began in November of 2009. Since that time, the ATF has sanctioned the sale of thousands of weapons to straw purchasers who transported these weapons across the United States' southern border and into the hands of Mexican criminals. {time} 1050 The ATF lost track of these weapons until they began turning up at crime scenes in the United States and Mexico. As a result of Justice Department incompetence, the United States actively armed dangerous cartels that have wreaked havoc in Mexico and put our own Federal agents directly in harm's way. Our hard-won trust and the relationships we've built with the Mexican Government as both countries seek to combat the cartels has been severely strained, which has harmed our efforts to get drug-running under control. Operation Fast and Furious hasn't just been a failure; it's been a tragic failure.…”