The Unarmed Truth: My Fight to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious Audiobook (Free)

After the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, John Dodsonpulled body out of the wreckage in the Pentagon. In 2007, pursuing theshooting massacre at Virginia Tech, Dodson strolled through the classrooms,heartbroken, to hide the bodies of the victims.

After that came Arizona-the American boundary.

Ten days before Xmas, 2010, ATF agent John Dodson awoketo the news headlines he had dreaded every day as a member of the elite team called theGroup VII Strike Push: a US border patrol agent named Brian Terry about The Unarmed Truth: My Battle to Blow the Whistle and Expose Fast and Furious had beenshot dead by bandits equipped with guns that were supplied to them by ATF. Wasthis an inevitable consequence of the Obama administration’s Task Gunrunner,set in place one year earlier ostensibly to track Mexican drug cartels?

Brian Terry’s murder wouldn’t normally only transformation John Dodson’slife forever; it could reveal a scandal so unthinkably unpatriotic that itforced President Barack Obama to claim executive privilege and caused AttorneyGeneral Eric Holder to be held in contempt of Congress.

Federal government Agent John Dodson, an ex-military man, took an oathto defend the world’s greatest nation and proudly considered himself awalking patriotic example of the American Wish. Brian Terry, ex-military likeDodson, was only forty years old, a family guy who served his country byworking for the government.

Dodson was terrified when another telephone call came, one withthe potential to destroy his profession, his family, and his existence. CBSinvestigative journalist Sharyl Attkisson asked Dodson to visit general public with whathe knew about Fast and Furious. To Agent Dodson, this designed blowing thewhistle. But to the category of Agent Terry, it was an opportunity to save lives andright an incorrect. As he took a fight from your border cities of Arizona to ashowdown in the halls of Congress, Dodson clung towards the wish that truth wouldprevail, that he would be redeemed, which Brian Terry’s death would not bein vain.

Like whistle-blowers before him, John would not be welcomeback on the job. But he discovered strength in his conscience, in the support of theAmerican open public, and in Senators Darrell Issa and Chuck Grassley. When hisfirst-amendment privileges to publicly tell his story were threatened, the ACLUtook up his case. On her behalf report revealing Dodson as the key whistle-blower inFast and Furious, Sharyl Attkisson received an Emmy Honor for OutstandingInvestigative Journalism.

Eventually, Dodson was cleared by the Inspector General’soffice, publicly heralded as a hero, and returned to Arizona.

Maybe a lesson gleaned from John Dodson’s powerful accountis well stated simply by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Sam Rayburn:”In the event that you constantly tell the reality, you don’t need to remember everything you said.”