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My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious
Threshold Editions
December 2013
On Sale: December 3, 2013
304 pages
ISBN: 1476727554
EAN: 9781476727554
Kindle: B00ER2X0ZY
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 administration’s Project Gunrunner, set in
place one year earlier ostensibly to track Mexican drug
cartels?
Brian Terry’s murder would not only change
John Dodson’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 world’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 Terry’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 General’s office,
publicly heralded as a hero, and returned to Arizona.
Perhaps a lesson gleaned from John Dodson’s powerful
account is well stated by former Speaker of the House of
Representatives Sam Rayburn: “If you always tell the truth,
you don’t have to remember what you said.”
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