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Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up MP3 CD – Unabridged, April 17, 2012

by Katie Pavlich (Author), Emily Durante (Narrator)
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Two hundred and rising. That's the death tally for the Obama administration's "Operation Fast & Furious." The program was supposedly designed to "win the drug war" by deliberately walking more than two thousand guns across the border to Mexico. But instead of catching drug lords, Fast & Furious armed the very king pins it was supposed to trap. Despite the protests of gun store owners and ATF whistle-blowers, federal agents deliberately violated federal law—and common sense—and wound up placing American weapons into the hands of Mexico's most violent criminals. And when the guns started showing up at crime scenes—including the murder scene of a U.S. border patrol agent—the cover-up began.So reveals Townhall editor Katie Pavlich in her news-breaking exposé Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal. While the White House has claimed ignorance of the program, Pavlich debunks their lies, denials and excuses by demonstrating incontestable proof that President Obama and Attorney General Holder did willfully and knowingly sanction the program in order to advance their anti-second amendment agenda.A horrifying look at one of the bloodiest scandals in the history of the American presidency, Fast and Furious is this season's sensational, must-listen book that will rock America—and the Obama administration—to its core.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tantor Audio; MP3 - Unabridged CD edition (April 17, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1452657319
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1452657318
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Katie Pavlich is the news editor for Townhall.com and a contributing editor to Townhall Magazine. She is the award winning author of the New York Times Best Seller Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up. As a reporter, she has covered topics ranging from White House scandals and the 2012 presidential election to the Second Amendment and border issues. As a Fox News contributor, Katie regularly co-hosts the daytime show Outnumbered, has filled in as a guest co-host on the The Five and as a guest host on Hannity. Katie is a graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Journalism and is a former National Review Washington Fellow. Katie has shared her perspective on multiple media venues including, Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox Business, in addition to a host of national and local radio shows. She is a regular speaker on college campuses across the country.

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Customers find the writing well-written and lively. They also appreciate the research, which is well-documented and easy to follow. Readers also describe the book as fast, furious, and forgotten. Opinions are mixed on the scandals, with some finding it fascinating and others saying it highlights the stunning lack of accountability and duplicity.

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Customers find the book well-written, easy to read, and smooth. They also say the author brilliantly structured the book to flow effortlessly. Readers also mention that the writing style is tight without being wooden and lively.

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"...' classic work, dealing with an extremely complex subject, is told in this simple, lively manner, which allows the reader to become engaged in the..." Read more

"...and can easily be read in an evening, which this reader strongly recommends." Read more

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67 customers mention "Research"63 positive4 negative

Customers find the book well researched, with detailed footnotes and logical and systematic case making. They also say the book is an authoritative source for Operation Fast and Furious. Customers also describe the book as a good piece of detective work and easy to follow.

"...Very informative and holds those accountable who were involved. Wish this happened more frequently." Read more

"...She makes the case logically and systematically. She documents the long held and fervent anti-2nd Amendment positions of all of the key players...." Read more

"...All of the major facts are provided and the unanswered questions listed and discussed...." Read more

"...Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up is the quintessential, authoritative source for the Operation Fast and Furious scandal, involving the ATF, the..." Read more

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Customers find the book fast, furious, and forgotten.

"...Buy this book. It is a fairly quick read, loaded with details and footnotes to document the opinions and conclusions reached...." Read more

"...Ms. Pavlich's book is a quick, informative read for anybody looking to be brought up to speed on Fast and Furious, or for anybody simply looking for..." Read more

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Customers are mixed about the scandals. Some find the book fascinating, informative, and disturbing. They also describe it as a scathing exposé of the program and the worst coverup. However, some customers feel the book highlights the stunning lack of accountability and duplicity.

"...There are lots of copies of incriminating and redacted documents. Every claim in her book is sourced. It would make a great term paper...." Read more

"...This book is a scathing exposé of the program, the who, what, and why of its development and execution, and the reasons behind it...." Read more

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bell
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good read and informative
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
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I am obviously behind a few years but her journalism is something I wish we had more of today. Very informative and holds those accountable who were involved. Wish this happened more frequently.
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Robert V. Warde
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read for gun owners, reporters and the Romeny Campaign
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2012
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If anyone is looking for a definitive work covering the facts through roughly early March 2012, this is it. All the material is here, and it is well presented. Pavlich makes a very strong case for the position that Fast and Furious (and perhaps other operations) never had a law enforcement purpose - that instead they were intended to "gin up" support for gun control here in the US.

I have been following this scandal since Feb. of 2011 and I maintain a site with links to hundreds of news stories on Fast and Furious [...] - so I am much more knowledgable than the average person. This book is so exaustive that even I learned a thing or two.

She makes the case logically and systematically. She documents the long held and fervent anti-2nd Amendment positions of all of the key players. She documents (from the mouths of line ATF Agents) how ATF has changed since the 1980s - starting as a group of agents with real world law enforcement experience who simply worked to fairly enforce Federal laws and ending up as an organization run by managers with little to no real world law enforcement experience who see the agencies mission as the political advancement of a gun control agenda. She documents the entire Fast and Furious operation and its' exposure to the date of publication. She makes a strong case that the operation never had any law enforcement purpose - that as unthinkable as many find it, the administration was willing to kill hundreds of Mexicans in pursuit of a new Assault Weapons Ban.

There were even a few things that I had never heard of, such as the allegation that Hillery Clinton got the Mexican government to shut up about Fast and Furious by threatening to withhold 500 Million in aid.

Pavlich has documented everything - nearly 1/3 of the book is Appendix or notes. There are lots of copies of incriminating and redacted documents. Every claim in her book is sourced. It would make a great term paper. Every reporter worth their salt should study it well - because if Attorney General Holder is cited for contempt of Congress (a very real possibility), they will need to get "up to speed" very quickly. It also should be required reading for both sides in the coming presidential campaign, because this scandal will without a doubt be the subject of a great many ads as election day gets closer.

All in all a very well done book.
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Kris Zane
5.0 out of 5 stars The book that will bring down the Obama Presidency
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2012
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There are a long list of books that deal with the Radical-in-Chief Obama--of course the book of that name by Stanley Kurtz, who famously shouted from the highest mountaintop in 2008 that Obama was a socialist radical that had hung out with none other than domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. One of the problems with Kurtz's book, however, and many of the other books in this vein, is that, although scrupulously researched and exhaustive, the amount of material that is presented is breathtakingly convoluted and is clear in no one's mind except the author. Whereas Fast and Furious is a subject that makes Obama's socialist connections look simple in comparison, Ms. Pavlich's book does not fall into this rut. Although exhaustively and minutely researched and documented (hyperlinked footnotes to webpages in the e-book version), the story of how a radical anti-gun President, surrounded by cronies of the same ilk, put into play a program--Operation Fast and Furious--a program so perfidious that it has left literally hundreds dead in its wake, whose sole purpose was to curtail or even nullify this country's greatest safeguard against a dictatorship---the Second Amendment--with all of this on Ms. Pavlich's plate--Obama's perfidious plan is told in a lively, simple (but detailed) manner, that leaves the reader, in the end, satisfied, full, and content.

David Freddoso in Gangster Government likens the Obama Administration to a 'thugocracy,' i.e., Obama uses the same tactics as the mob in intimidation, threats, shakedowns, deception, coverups, etc., so that I think a direct counterpart to understanding the Obama Administration is the study of the hey day of the mob (the late 1920s/early 1930s), or more pointedly, how a particular mob, a particular mob boss, was taken off the streets by a small group of individuals led by Eliot Ness. Eliot Ness of course wrote the classic book, The Untouchables, where he describes how Al Capone's empire was systematically taken apart and Al Capone was taken off the streets. My point? (Sorry for being so long-winded). The point is that Ness' classic work, dealing with an extremely complex subject, is told in this simple, lively manner, which allows the reader to become engaged in the action, so that removed three quarters of a century, it still remains a classic, and movies continue to be made of his exploits. The point is that from the very first page, Ms. Pavlich's book makes one feel like he or she is reading a book written in the same style as The Untouchables. Ms. Pavlich puts you in the action, inside the characters. (This is a scary feeling when she describes how the Obama Administration put the wheels of Fast and Furious into motion and describes the thugs who carried it out). You are sitting in the car with ATF agents as they watch a live video feed of a straw buyer purchasing AK-47s. You are later in the office as an agent bemoans that a rogue boss at the ATF office in Phoenix, taking orders from Washington, had told them not to pull the straw buyer over after he left the gun shop. With the agent who knows this straw buyer will deliver the AK-47s to the most violent criminals in Mexico. Who knows that innocents in Mexico will be mowed down with these weapons. Who knows that it is inevitable that a Border Patrol agent will die at the hands of one of these weapons. Ms. Pavlich takes you for a ride inside the minds, inside the action of the perfidious Obama Frankenstein Monster known as Operation Fast and Furious that our own government created and still purports to have had nothing to do with.
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Reader
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent background but not current
Reviewed in the United States on June 8, 2012
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Fast and Furious is history-in-the-making. Much is not yet known and new developments happen every week. Just today the Attorney General testified before Congress, but did not provide the information that he is being asked to provide.

This book covers what was known when it was written, and does so very well. All of the major facts are provided and the unanswered questions listed and discussed. The chronology of the operation and the questions about when key Obama Administration figures knew about it are explained well.

The author also makes the excellent point that President Reagan accepted the blame for Iran-Contra even though he did not know about it until long after the activities took place (page 147).

The book is not long (162 pages plus a timeline and copies of several documents, 20 pages of notes and an excellent index) and can easily be read in an evening, which this reader strongly recommends.
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