ASKing Detty

Andrea Shea King will interview Mike Detty tonight on her talk radio program about his book "Guns Across the Border."

Mike will come on at 9:30 p.m. Eastern.

The program starts at 9. Click here to listen.

Last Night's Armed American Radio Program

From host Mark Walters:

Tonight I traveled to an off-site location (for security reasons) to interview George Zimmerman’s brother Robert and his attorney, Jeff Dowdy. We took to the mobile Crossbreed Holster studios to bring you the Zimmerman perspective…something the mainstream media doesn’t want you to hear. Hour 3 I welcomed David Codrea, author Mike Detty, NH State Representative John Hikel and Crossbreed Holster’s Trent Cooper for one heck of a roundtable. I can say that this was one of the most important AAR broadcasts ever. Enjoy.

• 7-28-2013 Hour 1

• 7-28-2013 Hour 2

• 7-28-2013 Hour 3

Please make sure others know about this.

Tonight on Armed American Radio:

The program airs from 8 to 11 p.m. Eastern, adjusted for your time zone. Go to the Armed American Radio website to find a station near you or to listen live via the internet.

Host Mark Walters' guests will include Stephanie Sanford from NRA and Neil McCabe from Human Events: Guns and Patriots, as well as a special hour at 9 to interview Mike Detty, author of "Guns Across the Border" (along with yours truly).

UPDATE:  Cool new feature--I'm watching Mark and Seanto over at RadioFactor.net!

Kate Krueger's Talking Guns

I'll be making my monthly appearance on Phoenix's Independent Talk 1100 KFNX today in the 3 p.m. Eastern segment of the program to talk recent developments, Mike Detty's book, hate-filled, genocide-minded editors and whatever else Kate wants to bring up.

If you don't live in their broadcast range, you can click the "listen live" link on her website.

ATF head Jones avoiding volunteered evidence about earlier gun operation

“If you’re sincere in wanting to get to the bottom of the gunwalking scandal then you’ll need to start at the beginning and that is me and Operation Wide Receiver,” Detty advised Jones. “Throughout my time as a CI, I kept meticulous notes--some 600 pages worth. In fact, it was my journal that raised the ire of SAC Newell. Once he learned of my documentation he ordered the field agents not to accept any new cases from me. He knew immediately that my records, irrefutable and unimpeachable, would prove troublesome for him at some point in the future.” [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report notes sincerity often does not offer anywhere near the personal incentives that plausible deniability  does.

About Last Night...

...on Armed American Radio:

Stephanie Samford of the NRA. Author of the riveting book, Guns Across the Border-Mike Detty, details his incredible story of being a confidential informant selling guns to Mexican cartels at the request of the ATF and David Codrea joins the discussion. Michael Martin describes the USCCA Affiliate Training program and Human Events-Guns and Patriots Editor, Neil McCabe talks DC politics.

• 4-28-2013 Hour 1
• 4-28-2013 Hour 2
• 4-28-2013 Hour 3

Mike's interview occupied all of Hour 2, and I think it's one of the best segments I've ever participated in.

Vanderboegh reports call between ATF’s Newell and ‘Wide Receiver’ CI

In another in a series of exclusives reported on the Sipsey Street Irregulars blog, online journalist Mike Vanderboegh has obtained a transcript and recording of a telephone conversation between “Operation Wide Receiver” confidential informant Mike Detty and then-Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Phoenix Field Division, William Newell, a central figure in the “Fast and Furious” government gunwalking scandal. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report says Dial "G" for Gunwalker. Includes exclusive audio.

Wide Receiver ‘Good Samaritan’ clarifies role in OIG ‘gunwalking’ report

“I recently had a conversation with another AUSA from the Tucson office,” Detty recalled. "Regarding OWR he said you have to look at the end gain-what was it? To see where the guns were going? We already know where the drug cartel kingpins live and operate. To seize their assets? They'd only be able to seize assets in the US-which were very little. Why commit all these man hours and millions of dollars to arrest people for straw purchases? The only answer that makes sense is to have these guns show up at Mexican crime scenes." [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report fills in some details the Inspector General didn't go into.

‘Guns across the Border’ one of ‘Best of 2013’

Mike Detty’s firsthand narrative of his role in “Operation Wide Receiver” has been selected as one of the top 10 books written by Southern Arizona writers in 2013, J.C. Martin of The Arizona Daily Star announced Sunday. [More]

Today’s Gun Rights Examiner report notes an honoring and a dishonoring. Guess which one ATF is responsible for?

Good Question

Where are the Prosecutions for Fast and Furious? [More]

Been asking that one myself for some time.

One caution-- I note she includes some other cases where it's implied they were part of  Operation Fast and Furious. That was a specific effort out of Phoenix Field Division.  That's not to say bad stuff didn't happen -- in several of the examples, such as Detty and Felix, I've written extensively. But lumping them all in together actually helps confuse the specifics in each.

[Via Michael G]

Sunday Gun Radio

I won't be on any programs today due to family commitments, but there are two I want to call your attention to:

• Kate Krueger's Talking Guns will host Mike Detty ("Guns across the Border") today at 1:30 p.m. AZ time, 4:30 Eastern. Click here to listen live if you're outside the KFNX 1100 broadcast area.
• Armed American Radio's Mark Walters (8 to 11 p.m. Eastern) will host trainer Rob Pincus and Nikki Goeser, about her new book "Denied a Chance."  Click here to find a station/listen from your computer.

When Hardy Met Detty

Looks like it happened on the flight to the NRA shindig. [More]

In case you've been out of the loop (like years-late-to-the-party clueless comment poster "David D."), this is the book he's referring to.

Win copy of ‘Guns across the Border’ by getting local library to stock it

One month from today’s date, all validated emails will be tallied. If there are five or fewer positive library responses, each person who obtained one will receive a free copy of Detty’s book. If more than five libraries agree to acquire a copy, the names of the people who convinced them to do it will be entered in a random drawing to pick who will get one of the five free copies. [More]

Today's Gun Rights Examiner report combines a "Five Minute Activism" task with a chance to win a book I believe people like me will have a hard time putting down.

Lock N Load

I'll be joining host Bill Frady on GOA's Lock N Load Radio program this afternoon at 5:30 Eastern to set the stage for a 6 p.m. segment with Mike Detty, where he'll discuss his new book "Guns Across the Border."

Speaking of which, I note Amazon just released a Kindle version for those who prefer that format and want to save a few bucks. Me, I'd much rather have the hardcopy volume, but the important thing is to read it.

Click here at the appointed hour to listen in to the conversations and to join the live chat.

Sorry, No

The plan was to repeat the failed "Operation Wide Receiver" under Bush that had actual real tracking devices installed in the weapons, and was shut down when the bad guys discovered them and removed them. But obama and holder conspired to do the same WITHOUT tracking devices to lay the blame on the American gun owners as being a bunch of illegal gun runners to Mexico and use that as an excuse for more restrictive gun laws or outright registration and confiscation. That is why obama claimed EP to hide the truth that he ordered holder to run the gun running scheme. They are still hiding the truth and we may never get the "smoking gun" (pun intended) that would convict the both of them. [More]

I don't know where you're getting your information from, but much of it simply ain’t so. I have written many times about Wide Receiver and Mike Detty, the CI who was at the heart of the operation, which a search will bear out. Direct quotes from Mike: “While there were a couple times during Wide Receiver that tracking devices were placed on cars there was not a single weapon that was outfitted with any kind of tracking instrument.” [AND] “It had nothing to do with Bush or even DOJ...”

I wish I knew how this stuff got started, and why the truth is so hard to get out there -- no doubt because "legitimate news media" has no interest in using their megaphone to do so on certain topics.